Thread: Creatine and hair loss?

So there I am sitting at home browsing the net on creatine. I started taking it a few days ago for the first time in many years and excited about the potential results. Unfortunately, I stumble accross a few articles where people talk about losing hair while supplementing with it, some to the extreme as being as young as 18 and loosing patches. Needless to say I spent a good hour looking for any linked research to back this up but after all said and done I concluded that it's basically a bunch of isolated people who will try to blame anything and everything on their unfortunate hair loss which by coinsidence occoured while supplementing this stuff as a means of making themselves feel better. Anyway, even convinced that the two can't be linked together this thought is still haunting me mildly on the back of my mind. Any thoughts?

Originally Posted by m11

There's a lot of people supplementing with creatine and a lot of people who have hair loss. Sooner or later, someone will fall within these two groups who happened to have started losing hair at approximately the same time they started supplementing with creatine. This does not establish any connection though.

As you said, there is no evidence to back up this claim.

I agree 100% with what m11 said, hair loss is always more due to heredity than anything else!!!
Go see the scientifics studies on creatine, nothing proves it is bad for someone!!!Lots of studies prove that it has some benefits though!