According to these tests, your creatine levels are increasing.

检显示 你的肌酸水平正在增加。

Everything looks great, Susan... your blood work, creatine levels.

一切都很正常。不论是血液指标 还是肌酸指数。

First, a quick breakdown of what creatine is.

首先，快速了解一下肌酸是什么。

Muscle proteins like creatine kinase and myoglobin start leaking out into the bloodstream.

肌肉中的蛋白质，如肌酸激酶与肌红蛋白，会漏入血液中。

But as great as this performance benefit is, how safe is creatine really?

但是，尽管肌酸对提高成绩优势很大，它的安全性又如何呢？

But like many things perpetuated on the interwebz, creatine information has succumbed to the unfortunate demise of faulty information.

但是就像许多互联网上的事情一样，你能到的大部分有关肌酸的内容都是充满谬误的不实信息。

For fitness enthusiasts, supplementing creatine generally means adding a few more pounds or reps to your lifts.

对于健身爱好者而言，补充肌酸通常意味着让他们能多举起几磅或更多的重量。

Time to exhaustion, ratings of perceived exertion, heart rate, and fatigue factors, such as serum lactate and creatine kinase levels.

运动至力竭时间，感知体力的评分，心率，疲劳因素，如血清乳酸和肌酸激酶的水平。

Supplementation, however, is often suggested anyway since we don't store too much creatine in our bodies.

然而，由于身体无法储存大量肌酸，因此还是建议服用补充剂。

Other supplements that have shown to help alleviate DOMS are creatine, fish oil, taurine, branch chained amino acids, and citrulline malate.

它显示有助于减轻 DOMS 的补品，有肌酸鱼油，牛磺酸，氨基酸和瓜氨酸。

And with all this treasure trove of data, signs seem to point to creatine supplementation being safe.

这些宝贵的数据显示，某种程度上，补充肌酸是安全的。

Fortunately, creatine is perhaps the most studied supplement in the world, with over a thousand studies covering its effects.

幸运的是，肌酸大概是世界上被研究得最多的补充剂，目前有一千多项关于它的影响的研究。

There might be a link between creatine and DHT, a substance related to balding, but no direct connection.

肌酸和双氢睾酮之间可能存在某种联系，双氢睾酮是一种和秃顶有关的物质，但是没有直接的关系。

Let me know how creatine has been for you.

我想知道肌酸对你有什么益处。

Typical recommendation is roughly 2 to 5 grams of supplemented creatine per day.

一般建议每天补充大约2到5克肌酸。

Luckily, we can get most of our creatine simply from our food, especially in red meats and seafood.

幸运的是，我们能从食物中获得大量肌酸，尤在红色肉类和海鲜中。

Now we know that creatine is fairly safe, but the immense data also shows that creatine has quite a bumload of additional health benefits.

现在我们知道肌酸是相当安全的，但是大量的数据也表明肌酸还有很多额外的好处。

These supplements might contain things like caffeine, taurine, beta-alanine, creatine, things that end in 'een', chemicals that can make you more alert and get your blood pumping.

这些补剂可能包括咖啡因、牛磺酸、β-丙氨酸、肌酸等，这些以“in”音尾的化学物质可以使人变得反应机敏，并促进血管收缩(使心跳加快加强)。

When Rhabdomyolysis develops, the laboratory workup can show elevated levels of creatine kinase and myoglobin, while urinalysis can show tea-colored urine due to high levels of myoglobin.

发生横纹肌溶解时，实验室检可发现肌酸激酶和肌红蛋白水平升高，尿检可见由肌红蛋白升高导致的茶色尿。

Over time, cellular proteins like creatine kinase, or CK, start escaping the damaged cell and calcium starts to enter the cell, and this ultimately leads to cell death.

时间一长，如肌酸激酶（CK）等细胞蛋白开始从受损细胞中逸出，而钙离子开始进入细胞，这最终造成细胞死亡。