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	Creatine Confusion Curt Pedersen
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Creatine monohydrate is one of the most effective nutritional supplements for safely increasing muscle mass, strength, and power. This article shows you how to get the best results from creatine, ensuring that you don't waste your time and money on mediocre products or supplement protocols.

Buy Quality Creatine

Creatine's popularity has allowed the market to become flooded with inferior products that contain little creatine and often-toxic impurities. You can guarantee yourself that you are buying a product that is free of impurities by only buying products that have the Creapure trademark on the label.

Don't Worry About Loading

You don't have to take 20 grams of creatine per day to see results. Studies show that supplementing with 2-3 grams of creatine per day for a month will produce the same results as following the popular 5 day loading phase of 10-20 grams of creatine per day followed by 5 grams per day thereafter (1).

The only difference between the two protocols is that using the loading phase will produce results more quickly and cost you more money.

Avoid Sugar-Rich Creatine Supplements

While there is research that taking creatine with large amounts of simple sugars will increase the amount of creatine absorbed by your muscle cells, the side effects are not worth it. Using these sugar-loaded creatine supplements often cause users to feel nauseous and can have the added side effect of increasing the calories your body stores as fat.

Instead of a sugar-rich creatine supplement, take your creatine with a meal replacement shake or immediately after your workout. Both of these methods have been shown to increase creatine absorption as much as when taken with added sugars (3).

Forget About Liquid Creatine Supplements

While popular, liquid creatine supplements have not been shown to be more effective than plain old powdered creatine monohydrate. A recently published study found subjects who supplemented with liquid creatine did not increase in creatine levels in their muscle cells (2). This means that the liquid creatine will not cause any improvements in these subjects' muscle size, strength, or power.

Mix Your Creatine with Warm Water

Mixing creatine in warm water is the best way to get it to completely dissolve. Early studies on creatine monohydrate used warm tea as the liquid to dissolve the creatine in for this reason. This means as little creatine as possible remains in your glass and more gets into your muscles where it belongs.

Use Creatine Post-Workout

The one to two hour period after your workout is a time when insulin levels are increased and primed to store glucose, amino acids, and other nutrients in your muscle cells to help you recover and grow.

Taking creatine at this time can help more be absorbed into your muscles. Research shows that using creatine at this time allows for more creatine to be absorbed than any other time of the day. Add a scoop of creatine to your post-workout shake and see for yourself.

Conclusion

Use the simple tip provided in this article the next time you decide to use creatine monohydrate. You're certain to see better results in the gym and your bank account.

Curt Pedersen has a degree in exercise science and has published exercise and nutrition articles in many leading publications. To read more articles by Curt, go to Physically Elite.

Enchanted Spirit assumes no liability for health care recommendations or treatments discussed by individual authors whose work is published on our website.

The information here is offered to help in your research and investigation of possible ways to manage your own health care issues. Common sense as well as solid professional advice from your own trusted medical care specialist or personal holistic health care practitioner should always be part of managing your health care choices.

When you see something that is technically sweet,
you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it
only after you have had your technical success.
That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer ~
Leader of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb
Born April 22, 1904

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