How to Dissolve Creatine in water

[canadianhusker]

Keep it simple man, just put it in a random drink, and drink it. No need to dissolve it or anything like that.



Why no acidic juice? And provide proof of the "absorbed about 6 times faster".

4 out of 5 bro-scientists agree

LOLZ

[WillBrink]

Should I warm the juice up first?

Watch vids. Geez. Been known a long time best results for absorption and avoiding gasrtric issues is to make sure it's fully mixed and that's been known since the earliest studies, hence why they always used hot beverages to mix it in.

Dr. John Berardi has made a few comments that sum it up well:

"Since creatine is very hard to dissolve in regular room temperature beverages, researchers had been giving creatine in warm coffee and tea to ensure dissolution of the powder and to mask the taste. Also this dissolution makes taking creatine orally easier on subjects and their digestive systems."

" when the creatine gets to your gastrointestinal tract, the body tries to solubilize it. Why? Because nutrients cannot be absorbed if not solubilized or dissolved in a solution. They will just sit around in the pit of your stomach in powder form and eventually pass right out of you. So what the body does to remedy this is to suck fluids out of the cells of the digestive organs in order to provide enough fluid to dissolve the creatine. But what then happens is that all this fluid that's sucked into the GI tract needs to quickly be eliminated and this leads to diarrhea. So in solubilizing your creatine, the GI causes some nasty bathroom situations. Not to mention the fact that a lot of the creatine is lost during such porcelain episodes."

I suspect he's referring more to the loading phases that few people bother with anymore as far as "porcelain episodes" is concerned, but the fact is, best results will be had is you fully dissolve the creatine first.

For those non responders and those who get GI issues, making sure it's fully dissolved may solve the problem.