Creatine’s muscle-building effect could be ‘overestimated’

All that muscle growth could just have been due to those hard workouts, and not at all to the creatine supplement you’ve been downing. — dpa

Bodybuilders and weightlifters looking for gains have long leaned on creatine to help build muscle and hasten post-workout recovery.

But according to scientists in Australia, Canada and the United States, dosing up on usually expensive creatine supplements makes next to no difference to getting swoll, or extremely muscular.