I bought pure creatine monohydrate… What glucose drink should i mix it with?
I used to use water, which worked fine, but for ease I now just mix it with my Surge.
I mix it with hot green tea and have it with a meal or whatever. Dissolves completely.
Before discovering Surge, I used Grapejuice.
Remember, you want an insulin spike to help shuttle the creatine into the muscle cells.
D
skim milk all the way.
[quote]Dedicated wrote:
Before discovering Surge, I used Grapejuice.
Remember, you want an insulin spike to help shuttle the creatine into the muscle cells.
D[/quote]
I may be wrong but was’nt there a recent creatine article that disscused sodium levels to be a more important factor in the transport to the muscles?
[quote]jbodzin wrote:
Dedicated wrote:
Before discovering Surge, I used Grapejuice.
Remember, you want an insulin spike to help shuttle the creatine into the muscle cells.
D
I may be wrong but was’nt there a recent creatine article that disscused sodium levels to be a more important factor in the transport to the muscles?[/quote]
Okay, then throw in a few Ritz crackers to the mix. 
I haven’t heard that which article?
D
[quote]Dedicated wrote:
jbodzin wrote:
Dedicated wrote:
Before discovering Surge, I used Grapejuice.
Remember, you want an insulin spike to help shuttle the creatine into the muscle cells.
D
I may be wrong but was’nt there a recent creatine article that disscused sodium levels to be a more important factor in the transport to the muscles?
Okay, then throw in a few Ritz crackers to the mix. I haven’t heard that which article?
D[/quote]
They talk about it here:
http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1085045
They discuss the spike after the picture of “SURGE”.
Maybe I interpurted their comments wrong, let me know what you think.
But in any case a High GI drink is supposed to be very benificial for your starving muscles after a workout.
I mix mine with 8oz Gatorade, this way I get the Carbs and the Sodium.
j, I will check that out thanks for the heads up!
D
I’ve been mixing mine into the my gallon jug of whey protein shakes that I drink throughout the day. Is that a no-no?
Don’t remember why but I think I did here that mixing it with your protein drink is a no-no.
But I do know for a fact that unless your drinking your 1 gallon mix in 10 minutes the creatine becomes useless. It turn into someother compound creatineneneneen or something like that. I’d find it for you but I got to run.
Im surprised no one has mentioned sodium yet. Proboly because everyone already knows about it, but salt helts creatine get into your muscle cells, but i usually mix it with juice or gatorade.
[quote]Panther1015 wrote:
I’ve been mixing mine into the my gallon jug of whey protein shakes that I drink throughout the day. Is that a no-no?[/quote]
It decomposes after an hour or 2 I belive. Just use 3-5g post workout, In My Opinion.
A simple solution is just to put about 3-5g in a water bottle, give it a good shake, and then add some salt that you have laying around. The sodium aspects of pure table/sea salt is an amazing transport for creatine monohydrate and has been proven so. Tastes fine too…
Just make sure you drink it in under 10 minutes
Yeah, what matters most is some carbs to trigger an insulin response, sodium as someone mentioned also seems to be very helpful, but the main thing to keep in mind, as someone mentioned as well, is to drink it fast.
Creatine breaks down and becomes creatinine very fast in most liquids, especially acidic ones.
[quote]Dmpro45 wrote:
I bought pure creatine monohydrate… What glucose drink should i mix it with?[/quote]
Surge.
I mix my creatine with dextrose sugar and sugar-free cool aid. P.M. and I slide you my recipe!! Have a good one.
biscuite
Normally with Surge PWO.
But I ran out of Surge recently, I mixed the creatine in a bottle of Snapple and it seems to work pretty well.
[quote]Panther1015 wrote:
I’ve been mixing mine into the my gallon jug of whey protein shakes that I drink throughout the day. Is that a no-no?[/quote]
i think people used to say this was a no-no, based on theory. but from what i have read, in doesnt make a difference in practice.
[quote]elliot007 wrote:
Panther1015 wrote:
I’ve been mixing mine into the my gallon jug of whey protein shakes that I drink throughout the day. Is that a no-no?
i think people used to say this was a no-no, based on theory. but from what i have read, in doesnt make a difference in practice.
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Yes it does make a difference because once creatine is put in a liquid solution it begins to turn into creatinine which is essentially useless. Look it up. The less time that your creatine monohydrate has in contact with liquid before you swig it down, the better.