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Vegetarians bear a greater capacity to load creatine in muscle tissues

Published in Health and Medicine Week, January 3rd, 2005

Vegetarians bear a greater capacity to load creatine in muscle tissues.

According to research from Australia, "this study examined the effect of vegetarianism on skeletal muscle total creatine (TCr) content and creatine transporter (CreaT) gene expression, prior to and during 5 daays of Cr supplementation (CrS)."

"In a double-blind, crossover design, 7 vegetarians (VEG) and nonvegetarians (NVEG) were assigned Cr or placebo supplements for 5 days and after 5 weeks, received the alternative treatment. Muscle sampling occurred before, and after 1 and 5 days of treatment ingestion," K.K.O. Watt and colleagues, Deakin University, School of Health Science...

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