What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
Today I want to talk to you about creatine, and no, not about whether or not creatine
is actually a good supplement.
By now you should understand that it is probably one of the most well-researched, science backed
supplements that you can take.
Both for its safety and its efficacy.
The interesting thing though, is there's a lot of different forms of creatine that cause
a lot of confusion, and people really want to know "what is the best form of creatine
to take?"
So I wanted to cover that, especially considering the fact that in our ATHLEAN-RX supplement
line we do not use standard creatine monohydrate.
That's for some very good reasons, I think.
So I wanted to at least give you guys the clarity on that.
In terms of our RX1, we have a form of creatine called creatine hydrochloride, and in our
post workout, RX2, we have kre alkaline.
Now, both of these, as opposed to a creatine monohydrate, are bonded forms of creatine.
Some molecule is bound to get creatine to cause an effect.
To cause a change, versus the regular creatine monohydrate.
In the creating hydrochloride, the hydrochloride is a bond and what it does is it actually
lowers the pH of that substance.
So the creatine now becomes a lower, more acidic compound.
That's a good thing because what it does, actually, is it increases the absorbability
and its ability to be absorbed in your intestines, and also to be mixed well.
You'll notice when you mix creatine monohydrate a lot of times, it sinks right to the bottom
and it looks like sand on the bottom.
That's sort of a micro chasm of what actually winds up happening in a lot of people when
they take creating monohydrate.
That same sediment winds up making its way into your intestines and trying to be absorbed
– calling in more water to help with that absorption – which winds up bloating you
and giving you that bloated feeling, if you've ever experience that with regular creatine
monohydrate.
With the creatine hydrochloride, because you're doing that and you're increasing the ability
to absorb more of it, you're actually able to take a lower dose, so it has a second benefit
to you.
You don’t have to load with 20g anymore, and you don't have to maintain dosages of
5g or more.
You can do it with a lot less.
About 2g of a creating hydrochloride is going to be equivalent to about 4g of creatine monohydrate.
That's another benefit.
The third benefit is, you're not getting as much breakdown into something called creatinine,
which is a byproduct that you don’t want to accumulate in your body, but happens because
of the ingestion of creatine.
Now the same thing happens here in our post workout where we have kre alkaline, which
is another bonded form of creatine.
Again, for the very same benefits.
The reason why we use that, you're now getting basically 4g and 4g, based on their increased
conversion value.
So a total of 8g between the two, and we're dividing it in pre workout and post workout.
There's a lot of science that will argue for both times to take creatine.
You could get it pre workout to benefit and increase your performance during the workout,
and then other studies would argue that it's better to take after your training to help
replenish that.
The idea is, as long as you're getting this steady maintenance in here, again, with less
conversion to creatinine; you're doing a good thing for your body in performance without
having the bad.
One thing I'll say here is, when people start looking at the research of whether or not
the bonded form of creatine is better than creatine monohydrate, you have to understand
this one, main point.
They're looking for increased power, increased strength.
They're looking at the wrong metrics.
Nobody ever said that these are going to give you more power generating benefits than a
regular creatine monohydrate.
It's going to give you the same benefits of a creatine monohydrate in terms of performance,
but with all those added benefits I just told you about, the need to not have to cycle on
and off – some people will say you want to cycle because of the buildup of creatinine
on and off of creatine monohydrate.
You don’t have to do that here.
You're getting all those benefits, the same level of benefit in performance, without having
to have that.
So throw away all those studies that are looking for it to be better than that, in terms of
performance.
Look at it to be the same in terms of performance, but without those other effects.
So guys, I hope you've found this to be a little bit enlightening in terms of what it
actually does.
There's a whole hell of a lot of other differences and forms of creatine.
Many, many, many other forms.
People doing all new research all the time, bonding different molecules to creatine to
see what kind of effect it has.
We're going to let the research talk and speak for itself as time plays out.
For now, by far, these are what I prefer.
I think I get much better effects from it for my training and those that used our products.
I would recommend that if you're looking for a way to benefit and maximize your benefits
of creatine.
If you're looking for our ATHLEANRX supplement, guys, you know where to find them.
They're over at ATHLEANRX.com.
In the meantime, I want to try to continue to put the education back into supplementation.
It's not just about taking something blindly.
It's about learning why you're taking it before you do.
I hope that our channel can do that.
Let me know what other things you want me to try to cover here in future videos on supplements
and I'll do my best to do that.
All right, guys.
I'll be back here again in just a few days.