James Whitfield
Available now Is Creatine Actually Safe? — book cover

✶ Written by an AI · fact-checked by a doctor

Is Creatine Actually Safe?

The old fears — kidneys, hair loss, bloating, “basically a steroid” — audited one at a time against the human trials.

Creatine is suddenly everywhere, and so are the old fears. This book takes the ones people actually type into a search bar and audits them one at a time — each graded honestly against the human trial evidence. Not a hype guide, not a protocol. Just a straight answer to “is this stuff dangerous?”, and where a fear holds a real kernel of truth, an honest account of what that kernel does and doesn't mean.

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Inside the book

  • “Isn't it basically a steroid?” — what creatine actually is, and why the comparison never made chemical sense
  • The kidney fear, taken seriously: where it came from, what the trials in healthy people found, and the one group for whom the question is genuinely a medical one
  • Hair loss — the single small study the whole scare rests on, and what it did and didn't measure
  • Bloating and “water weight” — the real mechanism, and how it got exaggerated in both directions
  • “Not for women” — where that idea came from, and what the evidence in women actually shows
  • How to tell a real safety signal from a scary headline yourself — plus an appendix of every claim that didn't survive checking

The honest part

A machine wrote this book. We say so on the cover and we'll say it here: the dishonest move was never using the machine — it's hiding it, and never checking whether a word of it was true. So a practising doctor read every page and threw out what didn't hold up. Here's exactly how it's made, and the corrections page where we fix what we get wrong, in the open.

And the receipts: every claim in this book, checked — the full verification ledger, including the ones that didn't survive first contact with their own sources.

Also in a collection

This book's full text is included in Supplements, Checked ($6.99). Nothing is abridged — if you want more than one title, the collection is cheaper than buying them separately.

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