{"claimId":"clm_ec_b7-creatine-blood-sugar","version":1,"status":"current","verdict":"Creatine for blood sugar: Grade C at low certainty. Systematic review and meta-analysis (9 studies): creatine supplementation had no significant overall effect on fasting blood glucose or insulin resistance. Some benefit appeared in the small number of studies in people with diabetes, so any effect is likely context-specific rather than general.","direction":"benefit","magnitude":{"metric":"other","value":null,"unit":"","ci95":null,"humanReadable":"Systematic review and meta-analysis (9 studies): creatine supplementation had no significant overall effect on fasting blood glucose or insulin resistance. Some benefit appeared in the small number of studies in people with diabetes, so any effect is likely context-specific rather than general.","baselineAbsoluteRisk":null},"certainty":"low","clinicalMeaning":"small_but_potentially_useful","applicability":{"appliesTo":["healthy and diabetic adults"],"doesNotApply":["children"],"unknown":["pregnancy"]},"safetyQualifiers":[],"evidenceBundleId":"eb_ec_b7-creatine-blood-sugar","citations":[{"pmid":"35063192","design":"peer-reviewed"}],"reviewedBy":{"name":"Substrate editorial","credential":"Independent research collective"},"reviewedAt":"2026-07-16T16:23:47.490Z","dateModified":"2026-07-16T16:23:47.490Z","methodologyVersion":"v1","methodologyDoi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21364236","canonicalUrl":"https://evidencebased.info/interventions/creatine/blood-sugar","attribution":"Substrate (evidencebased.info), claim clm_ec_b7-creatine-blood-sugar v1, reviewed 2026-07-16","license":"CC-BY-4.0 — attribution with link required"}