Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

What Really Happens When You Take Too Much Creatin

20 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP, explaining what happens if someone takes too much creatine. The speaker states the body effectively regulates excess creatine by using, storing, or excreting it, implying overdosing is not generally a problem once tissues are saturated.

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Is there a problem with overdosing? There isn't, because you'll simply. Your body will use that other creatine, the excess creatine, or it will store it, or it will excrete it. And the body does a great job regulating that. So you may have, say you have a little bit excreted and you've wasted a little, but you're confident that you have saturated your muscles, your neurons, your T cells, everything with the creatine that is necessary for you to not only perform and exercise well, but also to be as healthy as you can.