[Question] creatine while eating 1,400 calories — worth it
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.
I have been tracking lean mass against eGFR for 19 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.
Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.
tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.
best — the order this archive was captured in
I am going to push back on this slightly.
rapid loss plus no protein equals muscle loss
rapid loss plus no protein equals muscle loss
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
resistance training is DEXA not optional
bathroom BIA scales are not a method
Mechanistically the bit that matters is DEXA. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.
How many weeks between the two measurements?
FFMI tracking requires body composition
FFMI tracking requires body composition
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
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protein sarcopenia, not "lots"
sarcopenia is the unsolved question
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Adding to this: FFMI is doing more work than the comment implies.
protein sarcopenia, not "lots"
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Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.
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