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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
I remember a while back, someone told me creatine helps you add size by retaining water in your muscles.
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That's actually kind of true.
Well it does cause you to increase your intracellular fluid in muscle cells. Whether that increases your actual protein synthesis or just adds "size" because of extra water is hard to determine. An increase in cell volume however is thought to be the first step in protein synthesis which can lead to an increase in muscle size.