: How does the human body respond to creatine? People do ask questions about supplements whether they are healthy or do they harm the body? I want to know how the human body responds after taking "fitness" supplements with

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I recommend you check out Examine. It's a supplement encyclopedia, and is a great jumping off point for understanding what a particular supplement is and how it works. Importantly, all of their information is based on the best available research, which is extensively linked.

Since you're interested in how the body responds to a particular supplement, you may find their "Human Effect Matrix" particularly interesting. It shows the extent of various bodily effects as seen in actual human studies.

Creatine is just one of the many supplements that they provide information on.

Creatine is a molecule in an energy system (creatine phosphate) that can rapidly produce energy (ATP) to support cellular function. This underlies the performance enhancing and neuroprotective properties of creatine. Creatine is remarkably safe for most people and is a well-researched supplement.

Not as friendly to the layman but PubMed is also a great place to find information (i.e. research) about various topics including supplements.

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If you want to read up on supplements, what they do, how they work and how well they are researched, this link (scroll down) might help you. There's pretty much information about every supplement you could think of. Most of the articles, especially those by Jim Stoppani (scroll down for his articles), are very well researched and cite numerous studies.

Do consider the fact, that the site is in the business of selling supplements though, and almost every author is associated with supplement companies, so their views are probably biased.