Can Creatine Increase Your Natural Limit And ? Long Jack, Ursolic Acid, And L-carnitine-citrate

Creatine will not increase your natural limit as far as muscle mass goes. There are many many factors that play into just how much muscle tissue you can naturally maintain. That being said, creatine can certainly help support your progress as you strive to hit your natural limit. I personally have used creatine for about 25 years now.

No supplement currently on the market will meaningfully and consistently increase your testosterone levels.

Ursolic acid is a very interesting compound. It works wonders in mice. The trouble with ursolic acid is that it is difficult to take enough of the existing products on the market to get sufficient ursolic acid to have an effect (if there is one). My interest in it revolves around myostatin. I've been taking herbal sources of ursolic acid on and off for a few years. Haven't noticed much, but that doesn't mean it isn't doing anything. Then again, I have no solid data to show that it is doing anything.

I think carnitine is a decent supplement. I don't think I would rely on it to boost androgen receptors though. Your training will do that just fine.

 

Correct. It's just difficult to get it to go into muscle cells.

 

Hi USC 1932. Welcome to the forum. Creatine and AAS have two distinct mechanisms. The difference in the mechanisms explains why AAS can increase natural limits for lean tissue mass, and creatine cannot.

AAS are androgens. They interact with nuclear receptors in cells. They initiate gene expression as well as cause acute reactions in some tissues (e.g. CNS activation). Because AAS have the ability to control what genes are expressed in a muscle cell, they have a meaningful effect on cell growth, metabolism, and other processes.

Creatine acts mostly to support intracellular energy availability. Energy (i.e. ATP) for protein synthesis comes mainly through the phosphocreatine energy shuttle. Because creatine supplementation can increase phosphocreatine by as much as 20% it can increase cellular activities that may run into an ATP bottleneck.

Because of these differences, creatine can perhaps increase (optimize?) the rate of growth from effective training and diet, but it cannot overcome genetic limits on how much muscle mass the body can retain. AAS obviously can and does temporarily increase genetic limits for how much muscle mass you can carry.