Creatine Monohydrate question

In the past I have used

And wanted to know what the difference is if I were to use instead.

Would it be better to use HSC Hyper Saturation since it has the following listed. Any input would be helpful, I hav gotten results with the first listed, but just curious if Monohydrate 5 g alone would be good enough.
Sodium 120mg 6%
Potassium 120mg 3%
Total Carbohydrate 33g 11%
Sugars 24g
Riboflavin (B12) 235%
Thiamin (B1) 266%
Panthenic Acid (B5) 40%
Niacin 150%
Phosphorus 20%
Magnesium 15%
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate 5 g
Taurine 1000 mg

I have not been weight training for about a month and it has been 4 months since taking any creatine and protien. Im weighing 159lbs 5'6". Gut still in tac not as big as before. I'm looking to get more lean cut appearance. I usually eat 4 meals a day. My main meals consist of Chicken breast or Lean meat. Morning meals are fruit and/or 2 eggs and toast (wheat). Lunch would be a Turkey sandwhich no mayo/ Salad with lime only. Snack 2hrs after lunch usually are peanuts unsalted, fruit, cup of soup. Now this is how it has been since I have not been taking protien shakes and so on. Any one have any info they can sure through up your thoughts, Im looking to be at least 170 Im not very tall as you can see. I want to put on good mass. thanks
 
I say chuck them both and switch to Kre-Alkalyn. Much better creatine, all around.
 
Can you post a link to the Kre-Alkalyn. I remember reading something about it, but seems to always be out of stock where I get my suppliments from.
 
This is a copy/paste from http://www.johnberardi.com . I'd recommend reading as much as you can from this guy. Every suggestion I've read and personally tried has been a complete success. I use Prolab creatine. Just look for "creaPURE" on the label.

Creatine is a supplement that needs no introduction. While some people may argue this point with me, I think that continual creatine supplementation is essential for good health as well as athletic performance. While creatine has been discussed in the athletic context quite extensively, it has some amazing regenerative effects on all tissues of the body including brain. I think that historically we humans have had a high creatine intake (due to eating a lot of meat) and we've physiologically adapted to this intake. Now, unfortunately, most people don’t get enough of it in the diet so there is, what I might call, a sub clinical deficiency. There are others, of course, that eat enough meat or have an upregulated endogenous creatine production and we call these people "non-responders". But the majority of people out there will receive benefit from basic, powdered creatine supplementation.

I usually recommend 3-5g per day (1 teaspoon), every day – dissolved in a warm beverage like green tea. Using this amount of creatine should increase power output by about 10%. This means heavier loads in the gym, more explosive lifts, and increased athletic performance. For older folk, this means more daily functional capacity. Since 3-5g per day is a rather modest dose, water retention, cramping, etc. isn't an issue (cramping isn't usually an issue even at higher doses). With all the fancy creatine supplements out there, a lot of people have forgotten about simple, powdered creatine. But that’s all we use with our clients.


Hope this helped a little,
DM
 
I think Ive already told you Fill that creatine is creatine it doesn't matter what they add to it, it's just marketing to hype there product up. they can say almost anything they wish about there product. remember there are many different kinds of creatine. with Kre-Alkalyn there main "hook" as they say is that will not break down into Creatinine in liquid. well that's nice to bad regular creatine takes about 800 houres to do that anyway which is over a month so unless your a really slow drinker, this will provide absolutly no benifit what so ever, your just wasting your money. 3 main catigories :Creatine Monohydrate, Creatine Phosphate, and Creatine Citrate. they also add lots of other things. Detroit's artical was correct in looking for the creapure. remember creatine is creatine just like water is water, you can't change it for the better, and adding things wont make much of a difference.
 
I'm not entirely sure about that phaledax, do you have research to that effect? I know there's research to reflect the fact that blood creatinine levels only increase over a very long period of time and in high amounts, but there is ample research to show that creatine converts to creatinine in the body fairly rapidly: (see: Gill ND, Hall RD. aikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand. J Strength Cond Res. 2004 May;18(2):272-5. & The Merck Manual itself).

Something common I've heard from doctors (and you find it on numerous warnings in creatine literature) is that creatinine levels from supplementation can result in a false positive in blood tests, and you have to inform your doctor that you're taking supplemental creatine, or they may think you have a malfunctioning kidney. The amount of creatinine you produce from muscular creatine is minimal, but this is filtered from the kidney. The amount of creatinine you produce from supplemental creatine is much more significant. In fact, studies of Serum Creatine (a once popular brand of creatine which used glucose as a delivery system - but was recently discredited due to false marketing) showed that the moisture in the air from storage of the package was enough to destroy 89% of the creatine monohydrate in the product by the four labs who tested the product.

Blood creatinine levels only rise when the amount of creatinine in the body rises to a point where the kidney can no longer filter it out. What Kre-Alkalyn is concerned with is creatinine before it enters the bloodstream: when it's in the stomach and intestines (gut, GI tract), where the indigestion and dehydration would occur.

This is from PDR Health (Thompson Healthcare, not a supplement retailer):
Typical adverse effects are gastrointestinal and include nausea, diarrhea and indigestion. Also common are muscle cramping and strains. Weight gain may occur from water retention. During a five day loading period, weight gains of 1.1 to 3.5 pounds have been reported. There are reports of elevated serum creatinine, a metabolite of creatine and a marker of kidney function, in some who take creatine and have normal renal function. This is reversible upon discontinuation of creatine.

I get a lot of complains from customers about creatine causing indigestion, dehydration, and "the runs". Switching to Kre-Alkalyn has fixed this up (for all of those who cared to come back to us and tell us about how it worked out for them).

Like I mentioned earlier, creatine can turn into creatinine as soon as it's exposed to air or water (e.g., the air inside the bottle from storage) so when you take supplemental creatine, you're not only creating creatinine in the gut, but you're actually ingesting it. Kre-Alkalyn, as far as I'm aware, has the smallest amount of inherent creatinine out of any other creatine product - especially in straight, unbuffered powder form.
 
About a week ago, I decided to add creatine as one of my supplements. I've done a ton of research about it, and the information about creatine is by far the most conflicting I've seen. This is probably due to the fact that experts really do not know how creatine actually increases athletic performance. Anyway, here are two pretty useful articles that I found (especially the first one even though it is long) that deal with alot of this issues with creatine.

creatine article 1

creatine article 2

I was initially concerned w/ creatine turning into creatinine in my drink or in my body, but the studies that were referenced by the two articles dispelled the myth about how fast creatine actually turns into creatinine and it looks like it is okay to mix creatine into a drink and take it without worrying about it losing its effectiveness. Right now, I'm basically going to test out how creatine monohydrate works with a small bottle that I have. The only reason that I might switch to Kre-Alkalyn is if the side effects such as indigestion are severe enough to warrant me spending more money on creatine as studies indicate that it is just as effective in terms of performance of monohydrate.
 
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