Sports Medicine: "Creatine"

Abstract

Penny Heyns uses it and she is a good, clean-living young lady who has recently set a spate of world records. Many ofthe top rugby and soccer players- role models to our sporting school children- use it and extol its virtues. lt has been dubbed as "Nature's own anabolic steroid"; is freely available and "without any known side effects". ls it the ultimate panacea and sports supplement? Shouldnt we all be using it? How can you as a sportsperson compete if you dont use it when your competitors are doing so? I have tried to make some sense of the articles below and the following is a distillation of this bibliography.