Creatine when pregnant

[hunter5]

WOuld it be advised to take creatine when pregnant or safer to stay away from it ?

 

[SteveMobsterG]

It's present in your body whether you use it as a supp or not. If you're really worried ask a doctor

 

[svica]

Creatine supplementation during pregnancy:
summary of experimental studies suggesting a
treatment to improve fetal and neonatal
morbidity and reduce mortality in high-risk
human pregnancy


Abstract


While the use of creatine in human pregnancy is yet to be fully evaluated, its long-term use in healthy adults appears to be safe, and its well documented neuroprotective properties have recently been extended by demonstrations that creatine improves cognitive function in normal and elderly people, and motor skills in sleep-deprived subjects.


Creatine has many actions likely to benefit the fetus and newborn, because pregnancy is a state of heightened metabolic activity, and the placenta is a key source of free radicals of oxygen and nitrogen. The multiple benefits of supplementary creatine arise from the fact that the creatine-phosphocreatine [PCr] system has physiologically important roles that include maintenance of intracellular ATP and acid

 

[stevesmi]

why do you need to supplement with creatine while pregnant in the first place?

 

[SteveMobsterG]

why do you need to supplement with creatine while pregnant in the first place?

Cos she's still lifting