Ultimate Creatine Guide

This is a question I hear daily, “what is the best creatine product?” or “who makes the best creatine?”. With products like Cell-Tech, CellMass and N.O.-Xplode on the market, there are a lot of options and people are confused as to what is the best or ultimate product. The answer I give is none of them. Most of these products are overpriced for the ingredients they use. Lets look at Cell-Tech for an example:

The largest ingredient by far are dextrose (sugar) and creatine. Yeah, they have thrown in some extra vitamins and a few other small supplements but if you want to have a product that is 99% as effective, you could just take your creatine mixed in grape juice. My suggestion is to buy bulk plain vanilla creatine. I buy mine from Supplement Direct. You get 1000g for $15 + shipping. That will last you several cycles.

Creatine does 3 major things for your body:

1) It provides energy to your muscles. This extra energy, called ATP, is especially noticeable in fast or explosive movements like weight lifting or sprinting.
2) Gives an extra “pump” to your muscles. The scientific name is cell volumization, it basically means that creatine causes your muscles to store extra water.
3) Aids in the repair of muscle tissue. Muscle growth is a process called dehydration synthesis. Creatine enhances this process and allows muscles to repair themselves and thus grow more quickly.

The science behind all three of these principals is pretty complex, but I wanted to give a simple high level overview of creatine that anyone could comprehend. If you are interested in all the hard science facts, look for more technical blog posts in the future.