In areas of competition, some athelets have the pressure to win at all costs. For fear of failure, some athletes turn to a performance enhancing drug called Creatine. Creatine allows you to workout harder in less amount of time. Creatine provides additional ATP, our energy source, which creates more muscles since we are then able to work the muscle more before it becomes fatigued and breaks down. Building muscle is achieved by breaking down the muscle we already have and then building it back up. Each time it is progressively increases in size and strength. Thus, taking creatine adds more muscle and energy to your body while you are preforming in a demanding areas such as lifting or sprinting. (Absolute Creatine: Creatine, Creatine Everywhere and No Objective Information Anywhere!)

Therefore, is it ethical to have high school, college or professional athletes to take a performance enhancing drugs to have an edge over their competition. It is very debattlable seeing that Creatine has only been on the market for a few years.

Creatine has existed since the 1800s and was discovered by a French scientist named Chevruel in 1832. Then, almost 100 years later, in 1923 scientists discovered our body contained 100 grams of Creatine and that 95 grams of Creatine were stored in muscle. It wasn't until three years later that the Journal of Biological Chemistry advocated Creatine for becoming bigger. The first test to observe the affects of Creatine was in 1994 at Texas Woman's University by Anthony Almada. The test proved an increase in body weight, a decrease in body fat as well as increased strength in the area of the bench press. Test have been done for the past four years through many universities nation wide. On average,the results have been positive showing an increased time in the 100, 200 and 400 meter sprint. (Power House Supplements- Creatine- The History of Creatine)