#54

I once heard Chris Masterjohn say that he takes a small dose like that. Maybe he’s changed his ways now. It was when he was on with Peter Attia.

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#55

I use Krealkalyn. it has reduced the bloated feeling I get from Creatine monohydrate. Placebo? I don’t think so.

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#56

Can you please tell what brand of Krealkalyn you use?

#57

I live in Sweden and buy a swedish brand of Krealkalyn powder. Is that something you can consider, I send a link to you? if not then, I recommend going for an internationally recognized brand like NOW-Sports.

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#58

Thank you for responding – I will try the NOW brand as I am in the US.

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#59

Latest Physionic video on Creatine.

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#60

Everyone takes creatine except for me, and I feel left out!

I tried it years ago and hated the taste, so I gave up. After seeing that the world is leaving me behind, I ordered the Nutricost brand of Creapure because I read Creapure is the best tasting option.

I just added it to my smoothie and BLECH!!!

All Creapure should be the same exact ingredient/taste brand to brand, right?

Any other ideas? It takes like I’m eating baking soda.

I want to be like the cool kids, so helllllppppp meeeee :slight_smile:

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#61

If you drink coffee you can just add it and there is little taste. Works for me.

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#62

Exactly… a heaping teaspoon full of creatine… and taurine in coffee… with honey and french vanilla creamer… yum!

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#63

Thank you and @RapAdmin !!! Maybe there is something about coffee that helps… I’ll try it in the morning… pray for me!!!

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#64

Not everyone. I have never taken creatine and have no plans to. The reason is extremely simple. I look over the purported benefits carefully, one by one, and don’t see how any one of them fits into my needs. I don’t doubt the benefits for one second - I just don’t need them at this point in time and the foreseeable future. I don’t need more water in my muscles. I don’t need more energy in weight lifting - all my life I’ve been a hyperresponder to muscle exercise (hypertrophy), so you’re selling snow to the eskimos for me. Brain benefits wrt. memory, I have no memory problems, brain fog or any subjective need to enhance cognitive performance. And so on. One day, 10-20-30 years from now (I’m 66), if I feel I could benefit, I will consider it or any number of other possibly fabulous new drugs that might come along. Meanwhile, the only thing I put in my black coffee is some high quality cocoa powder (Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint brand). Ain’t missin’ creatine, but happy for all the users and their benefits!

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#65

Creatine and Glycine powders in coffee work for me. Glycine and coffee mask any taste from the creatine. The taste of my coffee did not change after adding creatine (for me). You may have a more sensitive palate though!

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#66

Creatine has no taste. It’s like sand. I didn’t like that it doesn’t really mix with water and the glass has bits stuck to it after, so I’ve taken to dumping the powder on my tongue and washing it down with water. No waste no taste.

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#67

We two have something wrong, or got bad creatine, or they are confusing it with arginine, because I also don’t taste anything bad about it.

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#68

My children cannot tolerate anything bitter tasting. I attribute that to a lack of adult experience in learning to appreciate bitter tasting foods/drinks. Coffee (black), IPA (beer), Brussels sprouts, cacao.

I just put all the bland or bitter tasting powders in a glass, then mix in water and drink it. I don’t think about what it tastes like. I don’t want to spoil my food with these powders.

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#69

Well, I thank you all for the coffee tip, but nope, it made my latte undrinkable… argh!!! I do realize I forgot your extra tip @DeStrider of adding glycine, so maybe I give it one more whirl.

I guess a more expensive brand that contains creapure won’t make a difference, correct? (Same ingredient so I went for the cheapest trustworthy brand).

@CronosTempi that makes sense and lucky you! For me, I need all the muscle I can get… I’m puny!!! For the record, while I can happily eat other brands of cocoa or cacao, and even 100% dark chocolate, I don’t like blueprint cocoa, so even though I like most foods, I guess I’m sensitive to a handful of certain tastes.

@Joseph_Lavelle
I’m with you on not ruining my food/drinks because I get too much enjoyment from them…. I’m not sure I’ll be able to tough it out and force it down, but I’ll give it a go. I’ll at least be able to do it on occasion… but yeah, this is why I tossed my original container. And maybe there is a little kid in me, because while I love my lattes, I loathe plain coffee and don’t like beer either, but I do like brussels, so go figure.

On that note, I won’t be able to do this with water, but I’ll try mixing it into a cherry or cranberry juice shot, or something similar. Any opinions on what the healthiest option would be? If I’m going to suffer, I might as well try to make it more worth it.

EDIT:
Ok, so I realize the benefits of creatine were most likely undone by this, but I just mixed it with a little maple syrup and chocolate hazelnut spread. It might have been the best thing to ever happen to me… too bad I can’t do this daily :slight_smile:

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#70

Have you tried mixing it into some yogurt?

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#71

I haven’t and will whip up a batch of soy yogurt today and will try that tomorrow. Perhaps mixing it in yogurt with some mashed up berries might do the trick? TBA…

Thanks for pitching in!

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#72

Coming at Creatine from a different perspective: water retention. I tried creatine monohydrate and got so bloated I had to quit. Face looked great but ankles were very swollen even at low loading dose. So now am trying creatine HCL gummies. Microdosing – taking only one gummy per day instead of the suggested three. So far no bloating (or any noticeable changes.)

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#73

I can’t take it either for various reasons. TMG indirectly helps with synthezing creatiine anyway so whatever.

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