Creatine with gatorade?

[jemrick_45]

If i took creatine with gatorade or powerade or a sports drink like that would it still work? anyone tried it before?

[KeyMastur]

Why wouldn't it work ?

[JAY48]

yes it works really good.
i think it works as good as any pre loaded creatine supliment!

[tt333]

What kind of creatine are you taking?

[jemrick_45]

Creatine Monohydrate from Pro Performance
Is this a good kind to use?

[RoNNy THe BuLL]

The GNC Pro-Elite creatine works well with an acidic drink, like a grape juice. The Ribose in it helps absorb the amino-acids that make up the creatine, so with each serving of GNC creatine, the 10grams Creatine you down, about 7-8grams of it will hit your system. I don't know too much about the Pro Perf creatine, but thought that info would be good to know.

[jemrick_45]

Thanks

[Little Jonah]

Yes this would work much better then taking it with water anything with sugar in it is good to take with creatine ex grape juice, gatorade etc...

[trimunex]

it works well that way.

[skiboy]

yeah i've used it in sports drinks it works great, the sugar helps transport it
peace

[Rowdy]

i take creatine with oranage juice, is that bad?

[Big_Dippin]

Creatine with any sports drink will work just fine.

[Bowler]

i take creatine with oranage juice, is that bad?

Bump.

[jeffylyte]

OJ is fine. Too much attention is paid to the method of creatine delivery. Remember a few points ive been saying for years.

1) acid vs non-acid juices? does it really matter since the stomach is much stronger acid anyway? The conversion of creatine to creatinine (cylclic amide form) is acid catalyzed. Any acid no matter how weak will essentially convert all of the creatine to creatinine.

2) Liquid vs solid. Again, this stability issue. everybody makes such a big deal. Yes in water, the stuff turns to creatinine. It is not a one way reaction however but an equilibrium between the two. I hear this "new study" of how they only found 15% creatine in one of them. No shit, this was done 100 years ago in finding the equilibrium constant of the reaction of craetine to creatinine in buffered solutions. Again stomach acid will convert it all anyway. However, it is not absorbed any better either. Not my favorite cause of price.

3) Dextrose vs Sucrose vs any-ose. Valid concern. Insulin spike will help absorption into the muscle. New research indicates not much difference in sugars due to the creatine being slower into the muscles than the sugars are at stimulating insulin release.

KEY POINT: When in doubt, just take a little more. Why wrangle with increasing absorption by 5% when you can just bump up your intake by 1g. The stuff is non-toxic, I dont know if there is even an LD50 forit.