If you are going to use creatine monohydrate, choose a pure powder that is third party tested for purity and quality.
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If you are going to use creatine monohydrate, choose a pure powder that is third party tested for purity and quality.
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I've been recommending this to patients for 6 months now. The big shift is patients actually do it because the explanation is concrete.
Same in nutrition counseling. The before/after framing helps.
Tracking with a CGM on top of this for 3 months. Variability dropped quickly and stayed dropped.
Worth noting the 0.71 SMD in the Kreider meta is in trained athletes. Effect in untrained adults runs closer to 0.3 — still meaningful, but the panel should reflect that gradient.
Good catch. Could the brief surface the training-status interaction inline?
I think the most important thing is that it's creatine monohydrate. The reason people like Crea Pure is because it's like pure. Mhm. But what I like even more than that is NSF certification because there's rigorous testing to make sure there's no like lead contamination and these like heavy metals and things that sort of hitchhike on a lot of these supplements.
Otherwise, look for brands that use Creapure creatine monohydrate.
you should look for 'Creapure' creatine monohydrate
third party testing you can look for companies that have been vetted that are that are you know reliable Brands and and that's always like a yeah that's a big thing that we didn't talk about so if you are considering supplementation again you don't necessarily need it if you're getting it through your diet uh but make sure third party tested I would really focus on monohydrate um based on the evidence-based research um monohydrate has grass status creapure is from Germany it's it's more scrutinized it has less purities um that's an excellent form of creatine hydrate
now you mentioned cre cre creatine Pure or cre cre pure monohydrate y that's very pure it's very pure from Germany it's third party tested now as as a disclosure I'm on The Advisory board for Crea pure so full disclosure um and that's helped sponsoring the creating conference in Germany in in a few weeks but it has grass status um and when you look at the independent lab results it's 100% pure um there has been some issues out of Asia with transportation and not being third party tested
5 g of creatine monohydrate daily improves muscle strength and lean mass in healthy adults at standard training loads.
Creatine improves cognitive performance, especially under sleep deprivation and high cognitive load.
Creatine improves cardiovascular health markers and reduces all-cause mortality risk.
Creatine supports bone-mineral density in post-menopausal women when paired with resistance training.
Women need higher creatine doses (8–10 g/day) than men to reach the same intramuscular saturation.