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5mg? That seems like a very small dose... the linked study says they administered 0.35g per kg - for me that'd be about 24g, which seems like a lot, though I gu
by blacksmith_tb 2y ago
5mg? That seems like a very small dose... the linked study says they administered 0.35g per kg - for me that'd be about 24g, which seems like a lot, though I guess people who are lifting weights might do that much daily for a week or two and then switch down to 5g/day.
- xenospn 2y agoThe recommended dose is 5g per day. You can front-load creatine if you are deficient, but taking over 5g daily won’t do much. Edit: it’s 5g, not mg.
- nanomonkey 2y agoEverything I've ever come across suggests 3-5g per day, with some folks doing a 20-25g loading protocol to saturate your muscles in the first week.
- vrc 2y agoAnd possibly saturate your toilet too!
- subsaharancoder 2y agoMitchell Hooper, world strongman champion, takes 10g a day..but he's built different :-)
- ratg13 2y agoToo many people in this thread are conflating taking creatine for cognitive effects with taking it for weight lifting and strength performance. If you are taking weight lifting doses for cognitive effects, you are effectively 'doing it wrong' and will notice a significant weight gain from the extra water retention.
- swatcoder 2y agoRecommended dose by whom? It's most popular in sports training and adjacent aesthetics, and the norm among that community is in grams. While most products are available as powders that you could perhaps measure out in milligrams, their reference dosage for advertising is usually 5g.
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- TeaBrain 2y agoThey have to mean 5g, as does the guy who responded to you who seems to have made the same mistake. The recommended dose on most creatine containers is around 5 grams. 5mg is so little that it would be impossible to measure without a mg scale.
- tomjakubowski 2y agoThe last sentence there is an impressively neat tautology. I love it
- zahma 2y agoI always wondered why I couldn’t measure mg with my gram scale! I just kept asking myself where are the sig figs?
- TeaBrain 2y agoTo your snark, I was meaning to convey that a standard kitchen scale wouldn't be accurate enough to measure 5mg, necessitating what is typically referred to as a precision or mg scale. https://awscales.com/gemini-20-precision-milligram-scale/ https://awscales.com/gemini-20-precision-milligram-scale/
- TeaBrain 2y agoIs it really a tautology though?