Creatine taken warm is more effective??

[Hank Vangut]

i read this current article posted on bb.com talking about taking creatine in a warm liquid to improve effectiveness.

maybe i'm behind the times but i had never heard this before??

the author doesn't give any reasons why it's better just says "Take it hot and reap the benefits, take it cold and get next to nothing in return. Try it and see for yourself."

anyone know if this is true? is it really better to take warm?

Firstly creatine should be taken hot, not boiling (Creatine was first used on race horses and they would only drink it in tea, in fact in the UK one of the first companies to produce creatine was thinking of producing it as a tea bag), anything over 80 degrees will turn the creatine into an unusable form.

Yes you can take it in coffee to dispel an ongoing myth and in fact is the best way to take it if you have read above you will see why. Take it hot and reap the benefits, take it cold and get next to nothing in return. Try it and see for yourself. You have plenty of time to become a believer.

Creatine should be taken with a simple carbohydrate. Dextrose, even plain old sugar does the job. This is to cause an insulin spike and allow greater absorption of the creatine (So more is stored).

Take it cold or without a carbohydrate and you have been urinating your creatine away as most of the creatine you take is excreted around 65% is lost (3 of 5 grams taken is stored when taken cold).

[growstrong]

hank, I think this is old or at least I have know about it for a while... whether or not it is true, no idea. I know i tried it about a year ago, cant say i noticed a difference but im not sure.

[transXisomer]

I think this is BS, what temperature do you think it gets when it hits my pH 2 stomach acid in my stomach with a body temperature of 98.6 F?

[Hank Vangut]

Originally Posted by transXisomer

I think this is BS, what temperature do you think it gets when it hits my pH 2 stomach acid in my stomach with a body temperature of 98.6 F?

my thoughts exactly.

[Hank Vangut]

Originally Posted by growstrong

hank, I think this is old or at least I have know about it for a while... whether or not it is true, no idea. I know i tried it about a year ago, cant say i noticed a difference but im not sure.

yeah, i think i had seen this advice posted before in a forum but never took it seriously.

now i see it posted in an article on the bb.com home page and thought 'maybe there is something i'm missing'.

i personally have never tried it because it doesn't really make any sense.

[code0824]

Originally Posted by Hank Vangut

yeah, i think i had seen this advice posted before in a forum but never took it seriously.

now i see it posted in an article on the bb.com home page and though 'maybe there is something i'm missing'.

i personally have never tried it because it doesn't really make any sense.

I have also heard of this and was wondering if it was true

[goaussiego]

i don't see any reason how creatine would be absorbed or transported better cause of temp like trans said body temp warms it up anyway imo

[transXisomer]

^^^ I just read the article where you got that piece from, talk about a crappy article. There was so much misinformation in that article I hope most don't actually believe it.

There weren't even any references :(

EDIT: Its like he just wrote that in 5 minutes without any thought to it, such a bad article.

[kruz]

I've never heard this before but isn't warm/tepid water better for rehydration? You know what its like when you down a bottle of ice cold water, its coming back out within 30 minutes!
Maybe this is where this idea comes from?

[transXisomer]

Originally Posted by kruz

I've never heard this before but isn't warm/tepid water better for rehydration? You know what its like when you down a bottle of ice cold water, its coming back out within 30 minutes!
Maybe this is where this idea comes from?

Well its hard to tell where the author of the article got the idea from because he references nothing at all.