Vegans eat almost no dietary creatine, so does supplementing hit harder? A new randomized, triple-blind human trial gave 20 active vegans 0.1 g/kg/day of creatine monohydrate for four weeks. Jump performance improved, and so did some body composition measures, but sprint, handgrip and mid-thigh pull results didn't budge. Body water climbed 1.4 kg, and the study couldn't compare vegans with meat-eaters. Here's what the numbers show, what they don't, and who might want to try it.
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