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Originally posted by cliche
fantazio - which studies? I've seen some which showed ppl who didn't load ended up with significantly lower intracellular creatine than those who did. But I admit it's always puzzled me.
As for the maintenance - yeah, 5g once a day is fine for long term use or twice if you're restricting to competition/harder training periods etc.
What's the latest on liver damage? The last few studies I saw failed to find any problems in medium to long term use - is there anything now suggesting problems after decades?
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Far as I know right now, there are no real long term studies available to the public. Creatine has only been really popular for about 5 years or so. (I know it's been known about far longer, but only in recent years has it entered into such high usage) In other words, no one knows yet if prolonged exposure to the higher levels of creatine in your system is bad yet. Probably not, but still something to think about.
But if you're taking too much, it definatly stresses the old kidneys and liver a little more, which probably isn't good over several years.