Dr. Darren Candow

But I would be very surprised if a low dose study was done and there was any issues.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's the only standard.

So when I say creatine today, it's monohydrate.

And the reason being is based on its safety and efficacy.

So monohydrate means that creatine is linked to water.

So when it comes to your GI tract, the water diffuses in the hydrochloric acid of your stomach.

So that molecule, it's very unique.

It can actually get through our small intestine intact.

Unlike protein, which gets degraded, creatine is very unique.

It's because the acidity of our stomach is actually too acidic.

It doesn't like it so much.

So it gets through.

And then when it gets in our blood, the creatine that you're taking from supplementation monohydrate is identical to what's being synthesized in the liver.

So that's likely why the safety profile is so exceptional.

Now, there's probably 50 different other marketed forms of creatine out there.

First, it has to be creatine when it gets into your blood.

So whatever market of form you want to try, make sure it is creatine getting into the blood or it's useless.

Second, no other creatine has ever gotten into the cell and had superior effects.

There has been a few studies that look at creatine hydrochloride and with the ester bond to get sort of through the phospholipid bilayer of your cells quicker, but no study has ever showed it to be safer or more effective.