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This just in...Suffering from high blood pressure?  A new study has demonstrated that a popular muscle building supplement may have some indication to lower it.

Specifically:

Creatine is a naturally‐occurring compound that supplies energy to cells throughout the body – primarily muscle cells. Researcher,  Eduardo Tibiri, from the School of Physical Education and Sports Sciences of the Estacio de Sa University (Brazil), and colleagues enrolled 40 healthy male, moderately physically active subjects, average age 27.7 years, to consume creatine as a dietary supplement (20 g/day of commercially available micronized creatine monohydrate), for one week. Researchers used imaging to assess microvascular reactivity, and conducted video microscopy to ascertain capillary density.

Mean blood pressure decreased from 92.1 mm Hg, to 89.8. Significant decreases of total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol were also observed. The study authors submit that: “Oral supplementation with creatine in healthy, moderately physically active young adults improves systemic endothelial‐dependent microvascular reactivity and increases skin capillary density and recruitment.”

I do not advocate supplementing with creatine for this purpose, as this is a very preliminary finding based on young healthy subjects and there may be side effects in older less healthy individuals that are unknown at this time.

Still this is a provocative study and hopefully more research will be done to see if this substance would be helpful in subjects with hypertension or high blood pressure.

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