Rhonda Patrick

Are there any ways around that?

Is there, like, any tricks to improving, you know, the ability of your stomach to digest it?

Well, the question is, like getting back to what you said, if it's not increasing intracellular water, then it may not be doing what it's supposed to do.

And ultimately, that's the whole point.

So the question is, if you're taking creatine HCL or there's liposomal creatine or there's a GNC brand that's like it's an AMP creatine HCL.

So it's like at the end of the day, the bulk of the research is done using monohydrate.

Well, aside from the marketing, I think some people...

I know some people personally that even taking like a five-gram dose of creatine monohydrate experience like stomach issues.

Yeah.

So what can those individuals do?

So that would be an interesting experiment for someone to try that's experienced GI problems.

Correct.

To try taking it with food and carbohydrates seems like it might be... Really good.

Really good.

Okay.

And then the other thing is you're talking about like lower dose, micro dosing and spreading it out.

Is that something you'd have to do like forever or is that like to kind of get your gut used to it or is it...

Well, you said these smaller doses were more effective at what, at...

Well, this kind of goes to a...

Another question I had, which was, we've been talking a lot about dose, but it's also about, you know, if you're taking the cycling of it.