Creatine Loading Calculator

Work out a body-weight-scaled creatine loading dose and ongoing maintenance dose, instead of one flat number for everyone.

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Loading: 0.3 g per kg of body weight per day, split into 4 servings, for 5 to 7 days. Maintenance: 0.05 g per kg per day, kept between 3 and 5 g, taken as 1 serving. This matches the ISSN guidance of 3 to 5 g per day for maintenance (Kreider et al., 2017).