For parents with teenage sons taking supplements for athletics.

Go HGH or go home.

I took it in high school and most of the other football players were on it. It helps a lot but do need to be careful about drinking alcohol on it. Which of course a lot of us were doing that in high school probably wasn’t that great for us.

Need to drink a ton of water while on it as well. 14 would be too young imo to take creatine and honestly I’d hold off till after high school

Creatine is pretty harmless.

Edit: drink TONS of water.

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nothing more than protein powder

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Ok groomer

Sad how you republicans think it’s ok to give kids hormones

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For parents with teenage sons taking supplements for athletics.
My son is 14, 8th grade wrestler who's asking about taking creatine.

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Only do it AFTER you take out a substantial life insurance policy on your son. In other words, don't do it.

Creatine is one of the safest supplements on the market. There are plenty of legitimate research papers proving such. There are also plenty of scientists that go through these papers on youtube to help people better understand. Pretty hard reading through these doctoral papers who use a thesaurus like its going out of style.

Here is a short excerpt from Andrew Huberman...who is one of the more popular guys on YT. He's a neuroscientist/ophthalmologist out of Stanford.

Everybody took creatine in highschool. I still take creatine today at 33. Never a problem. It's known for having plenty of side benefits...brain focus, skin fortification against UV rays...but I still just use it for lifting.

I worked in a lab my entire career. During that time I've had lab on every type of patient. I've seen Creatinine levels as high as 19 on dialysis patients. Normal around 1.0. Had a 25 year old ER patient come in and I couldn't get his creatinine to "read". Diluted it several different ways and finally ended up with a 32 for an answer. I didn't believe it was correct and continued to try to find what was causing the "interference". I took so long the ER doc came to the lab. I told him what was going on and he said the guy had ate half a can of creatine and he believed the 32 result. Guy had essentially dissolved his kidney.

Creatine does cause water retention, which could bump him up in weight class. I'd just stick to protein at his age.

Too young for that. I woud definitely wait. Also talk to his Dr about it