Hello. I’ve been taking creatine on and off about 2 years now and I’ve noticed a strange pattern. Everytime I get off creatine, the hairs on my body(including scalp) grows thiner all over and some falls out. When I go back on creatine, new hair grows back much thicker and longer than it naturally would be. Most people seem to think there’s a connection between creatine and hair loss but for me it’s hair growth. Am I some sort of a freakish exception or do other people experience this?
I do not know you well enough to confirm that you are “freakish”. Kidding aside, I do not know of any good research that correlates hair growth with creatine. Most are all anecdotal evidence like your story. In other words, I unfortunately do not have an answer to your question.
Tags: hairloss, hair loss, creatine, freak
please email me and tell me if creatine does cause hair loss or does hair gel? please help.
Hello, Dr. Russman!
I’m very interested in creatine treatment but i’m affraid of potential damage for my hair. I need your advise as a professional if the creatine staightenning could damage my hair and provide the hairloss.
Thank you in advance,
Daria
I’ve been noticing significant hair loss for the past 18 months. I started to work out, eat almost nothing but food high in antioxidants, I tried every known anti-hairloss treatment. It just kept falling out at a high rate. It came to the point, I was thinking of shaving my head. Even doctor was hopeless and told me to accept it. But when I wanted to get back to working out after summer holidays, I decided to use creatine to speed the recovery. The first thing I noted after a week of loading with creatine that my hair stopped falling out at the previous rate. I even doubt that I lose as much hair daily as I normally should.
So I don’t see it as a danger, I am actually shocker right now to find people even suggest creatine to be responsible for hair loss.
There is also no reason why would that happen. After all, if creatine supplies tissue with water, that means more nutritians are avaliable. But I do load the body with superfood regulary.