Creatine - An Alternative Mitochondrial Energy Source for ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 8 years
- Published
- Oct 2024
Summary
Creatine monohydrate, started at 10g/day for about a month then dropped to a 5g/day maintenance dose, alongside 1.25mg low-dose naltrexone. He had moderate ME/CFS for 8 years before starting. Within weeks he noticed sustained benefits, later calling it the treatment that moved the needle more than anything else he had tried in 8 years. At 5 months of use the improvement was holding with no reported side effects. The account gives no long-term follow-up beyond that point.
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