Group: Health Supplements

Health Supplements
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 102, Messages: 16613

Supplements can be a great aid with your health and fitness goals. Combined with the proper exercise and nutritional plan they can be quite effective.

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Creatine and Methylxanthines

sbroyhill
sbroyhill
Posts: 442
Joined: 2005/04/06
United States
2005/05/19, 09:09 PM
I have heard that caffiene is counterproductive to creatine. Here is where my question inlies.

I was checking out one of my supplements. It contains a 2CM (DiCreatine Malate).
It also contains Methylxanthines, which is a form of caffiene. If it is counterproductive, why have a mix of the two in the same supplement? This is a supplement from a reliable source which spends millions on research every year. (Or so they claim, but they are a large company so I believe it.)
So what do you think?

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bropie
bropie
Posts: 1,084
Joined: 2004/12/04
Canada
2005/05/19, 10:08 PM
in my personal opinion, there is still much debate over the creatine/caffeine issue.. perhaps the dosage of caffeine is small enough to not exert much of an effect on creatine absorption
sbroyhill
sbroyhill
Posts: 442
Joined: 2005/04/06
United States
2005/05/20, 09:10 PM
anyone else have any ideas?

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