I Took Creatine for 30 Days — The Results Were Shocking

And I documented everything for you

Image (not of the author) created by the author using Ideogram. This is an AI image, but a body like that is not made with just creatine. 🙃

After going over a year without taking a single gram of creatine, I wanted to get back on the wagon. This time, though, I wanted to do things a little differently.

I wanted to measure what it was actually doing to my body over a 30-day period of time.

What gets measured gets managed. — Peter Drucker

I’ve tried to apply this concept whenever possible to my life, especially in fitness and nutrition.

Although I’ve taken it off and on for my entire adult life, I’ve never measured its effects. I’ve just assumed it was doing all the great stuff people claim it does.

It was “no harm, no foul” up until I felt it was causing me to have restless legs at night, and I stopped taking it cold turkey until now.

So, I went all in for 30 days and tracked all of the metrics that I felt were relevant to creatine.

If you’ve followed my writing, you know that I have a knack for doing this and never go halfway.

For this 30-day creatine experiment, I tracked.

• Body composition. Muscle mass and body fat were the main metrics, but I also logged regional measurements by measuring the…