Everyday I get many questions from my more than 6,000 readers worldwide. So, I thought it would be interesting just to answer some of those commonly asked questions. As, you might guess, since minors can not give consent to enter scientific studies, no creatine studies have been done with children. So we can not know for sure. At the same time there is nothing known about the biochemistry of creatine that would cause us to predict any problem.
Some youngsters do take creatine and have reported some of the same benefits as reported in adults.
There is more to building muscle than taking creatine. Gender hormonal status, nutritional habits, genetic makeup, and resistive exercise all play a role in muscular development. My personal view as a father of 6 is that sports in childhood, should be a time of learning and fun, not of hard training and muscle building. Muscle contains lots of water. More muscle size means that you will have more water in your body as your muscle grows.