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Wider Applications for Creatine Beyond Sports and Bodybuilding

By , About.com GuideNovember 24, 2011

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Creatine is a widely used and mostly safe and effective performance enhancing supplement for power sports. Even so, creatine is being used and trialled for medical and lifestyle uses beyond the sports, weight training and bodybuilding arenas.

Creatine has been used in disease conditions as diverse as heart disease, Parkinsonism, cancer and motor neurone disease in an attempt to improve quality of life. It has also been used to arrest the muscle loss of ageing (called sarcopenia) in healthy adults. Ultimately though, creatine is still associated mostly with athletic performance. Read the complete article.

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