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Creatine
Athletes today will do almost anything to get an edge. In the past athletes had to turn to such things as anabolic steroids or blood doping (the process of taking out blood and adding oxygen to it and putting it back into your body in order to increase a persons endurance). However, these procedur ....
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.... triphosphate (ATP). As the muscles keep contracting, the ATP is turned into adenosine dephosphate (ADP).
ADP causes your muscles to fatigue. Creatine Phosphate helps to convert ATP into ADP when the ATP is all gone. In doing this, the athlete has better endurance during his of her workout.
Creatine claims to have many advantages, such as increased endurance, increased overall work potential, increased speed of muscular action, and the potential to further increase muscle mass. Creatine also accelerates protein synthesis. (Applegate 5 ....
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