Thread: Is it bad for you

Does anyone know if Keratin or however you spell it. Is it really bad for you or is it safe to take? Let me hear some of your feedback

haha it is safe to take considering it is already in your body keratin is the thing in your skin that makes it waterproof i dont know why it would be in anything your taking but it is safe

No its helps your muscle grow faster and get bigger faster. Its like a steroid but its legal. You dont inject, its powder and you mix it with water and drink it. They say it puts on "water weight"

at the moment i began shunning my anatomy teacher i did some research and...KERATIN IS A TOUGH FIBROUS PROTEIN AND FORMS THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF HAIR, NAILS, AND CALLUSES (sorry for the caps thats how it pasted into the reply) and also this...Eventually, the Keratin-producing Cells (KERATINCYTES) DIE AND FORM A TOUGH, FLEXIBLE WATERPROOF COVERING ON THE SURFACE OF THE SKIN. (again thats how it was ont he site) i dont know if it has any effects under the skin?? but thats all ive got from human anatomy courses

I suspect that you mean creatine. If you eat meat you don't really need it, if you are vege or want to top up I would say take a low dose daily and forget about the loading period. If you are boxing you need both sustained and sprint power. Creatine tends to work on the explosive side of things....of course there is some doubt whether it works at all and it causes some folk stomach trouble.

If your a boxer don't take it, i took it for a while to bulk up for football, all it does is make you fat and add water weight, so you think your getting heavyier but if you go running with a grabage bag on 2 or 3 time all the weight will be sweated out of you, ultimitly it's usuless to a boxer so just change your diet a bit, eat lots of meat and work out alot unless you have a high motabolism, were less equals more. strang as it sounds but i digress, if your a boxer leave that shit alone

opinion.

definitly not opinion, experiance my friend, and my experiance tells me you don't need it, im not the only one that thinks so there was a phase were most the players on my team took it and got the same results.

same here, friend

He may wish to try a LOW dose for a couple of months + extra water.
It has been shown to aid rehyration which is especially important to boxers prefight since your brain is mostly water.

oh creatine yes ive played with that before and i found that it didnt do anything for my muscle mass it just made me not hurt as much the next day but i dont take it anymore because i eat enough meat anyway and i dont have the extra cash to spit out on it... it doesnt effect me all THAT much anyway

as with most supplements a good diet should cover it

Originally Posted by Missy

same here, friend

He may wish to try a LOW dose for a couple of months + extra water.
It has been shown to aid rehyration which is especially important to boxers prefight since your brain is mostly water.

Do you really think some one would want to put on so much un-nessacery weight befor a fight, i guess it would really depend on his case weither he was big or small, im 5'8 and was 170 with it, with out and tryin to get my weight down im at 150 which is perfect because im fast and lighter on my feat

Ya I'm 14 so it wouldnt harm me right? And does it really help you build muscle faster?

Originally Posted by BBOXER14

Ya I'm 14 so it wouldnt harm me right? And does it really help you build muscle faster?

dude, you dont need to build muscle faster. bloody hell.
creatine is something naturally occuring within your bodies muscles that removes some of the pain of muscles ripping.
all it really does is allow you to work harder without your muscles failing and you having to stop. it wont actually work a miricle for you, you still got to do all the work.
the safest and most effective thing you could take (also the cheapest) is whey protein.
but you dont need it.
putting on muscle will make you look good, but it will also make you heavier, so your gonna have to be fighting people alot bigger than you.

not to mention the fact you have to be 16 or over to buy sports supplements. i use whey protein and im 200 lb at 5ft 11, so the stuff does work, but your gonna need a proper training split, some mother of determination.
your to young to start all this.

why do you think im so damn small. my dad was 6ft 5 and my mum is around 5ft 11 askwell. i think i must have impacted my spine through snatches and squats at the age of 12.
its not worth it. stick to the body weight excersizes, a nice healthy diet and stamine.
you wont have the power to KO somone at your age anywho

Oh I see. I think you can be any age though to be creatine. My friend claims that he takes it and he is 14.