Friday Rant: Creatine
March 23rd 2007 10:47
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The word came out yesterday that medical experts are going to be testing the value of creatine in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Was I surprised that this body building supplement that has never really gotten the approval of the medical establishment is now a possible aid in the fight against a scourge like Parkinson's? No. I have written about this phenomenon before. The fact remains that fitness is so closely tied to health that the very compounds that promote better performance are a boon to all the body's systems.
I have also written before that I have respect for creatine's ability to promote muscle growth. I have always suspected thought that it did other beneficial things for the body. One of its effects,I understand, is to hydrate the cells. How that is not a good thing? Yet, should it prove an Parkinson's fighter, I don't think it will matter much. There will still be resistance it in the orthodox medical and sports community. I just wonder what I would take.
I also wonder what I would take for puny little sports writers to get a clue that alot of the mass they now see in baseball and football players in the US is a result of serious training and supplementing with cutting edge and legal supplements. Lets face it, sports writers are mostly nerds who are not likely to pump the big iron enough to understand its salutary effects.
Parkinson's disease has done its infernal best with members of my family. You are right if you think that I am going to watch this study thing play out. I might even get back on creatine just because the fascists at the FDA in the US haven't gotten around to banning it. Eventually though some moron teenage wrestler will die in his 35th hour in a steam bath trying to make weight and they will find creatine in his system and there it will go. I hope my Aussie readers and everyone else understands that they are lucky to be free of the FDA.
While I rave, I get sick of seeing all those male enhancement commercials on the tube with nubile females cooing when their husband announces that he has purchased the miracle extender drug of all time. Read a label, will you? Its niacin, yohimbe(which the totalitarians at the FDA want to ban!), tribulus, arginine, etc . All of these are easily available in cheaper versions. They are also helpful in the gym. Once again the weight crowd is ahead of the curve. And bigger than average too. Your servant, as always.
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