Many supplements come and go and the initial hype gradually fades. This is not true about creatine. The use of creatine to enhance strength, recovery, decrease muscle soreness, and increase muscle mass has been proven out with many good scientific articles. Creatine is increasingly used in not only wrestling , but in many sports as well. Even beyond creatines use in sports, physicians are beginning to use creatine to enhance the function of muscle and the heart in people who are sick with various muscle and heart conditions.
Most medical reports are very enthusiastic about creatines usage.
Most importantly, no dangerous side-effects have been found by the doctors in very carefully controlled medical situations. The recent wrestling deaths have now been reviewed by the Center For Disease Control who found that the deaths were related to severe dehydration practices and high temperatures associated with the dehydration and use of plastics to further raise body temperatures. Creatine was not implicated in these deaths. My own best information is that only one of the three wrestlers ever took creatine and he had stopped taking creatine several weeks before he died. Wrestlers continue to be very enthusiastic about the use of creatine.