You make a great point, but I don’t know if comparing 6 year olds taking pediasure shakes and flintstone vitamins to supplementing with creatine is the same.
Caffeine is also relatively safe but I’m not sure children should have pre work sups.
This is leads to a good question though, what would be an appropriate age for kids to use supplements? He son is a record holder, does creatine aid in his recovery? I wouldn’t give it to my kids, but I also wouldn’t think it would be a big if my child drank a protein shake, which seems contradictory when I type this out.
What I do know is of Hankins is recommending something, I’m likely opposed to it.
A protein shake is like concentrated milk basically. I've repeated ad nauseum that protein shakes are food and it makes little sense to put powders in a separate category. Years back many thought protein shakes potentially dangerous, even doctors. Not long ago my cardiologist warned me about protein shakes. It's like warning about food. Other doctors forced me to drink micronutrient fortified protein shakes at the hospital recently because I couldn't eat.
I haven't looked at creatine and kids, if there's data, but it's another supp that was thought potentially dangerous when it came out. Now they're thinking it might be good for seniors and people with various diseases. Let's say you looked at what a typical child gets through diet and added just a little more to top out creatine phosphate stores, might not be dangerous at all.
But I understand the instinctive reaction to giving children "supplements" especially if there's a label with a figure of a muscle man on the can.
My mother's generation in Finland were fed bread dipped in coffee as toddlers and they started drinking coffee as little kids, mostly because there wasn't much else to drink besides water
"Energy drinks" were also thought of as very dangerous to kids, and here there's still a self imposed 15 years old age limit to buy in stores. But they could buy coffee or iced coffees which contain as much caffeine per milliliter as a Red Bull
When energy drinks became a thing there were lots of reports of emergency room visits and close to death encounters, I haven't heard much in recent years and younger kids of course get ahold of them despite the restrictions.
I wouldn't recommend PEDs to any kid but I wonder what I would have looked like if I were given extra GH with some aromatase inhibitors to increase height plus some little Anavar cycles
My posts get long I know
