Creatine Monohydrate Description: Our Creatine Monohydrate is made in the USA! Creatine is a naturally occurring metabolite which helps recycle the body's supply of ATP for increased energy output, strength and endurance. Research indicates that athletes who exercise and supplement their diet with Creatine Monohydrate may increase the total Creatine pool within the muscle. Creatine Monohydrate is research proven to help increase peak power and delay fatigue during high intensity intermittent exercise (1). Mega-Pro Creatine Monohydrate is 100% pure Creatine Monohydrate.

Creatine Monohydrate References:1. Birch, Noble, Greenhaff; Influence of Dietary Creatine Supplementation on Performance During Repeated Bouts of Maximal Isokinetic Cycling in Man; Queens Medical Center, UK; 1994

Creatine is formed in the liver and kidneys. From there, 95 percent of it goes to the muscles and forms creatine phosphate, which boosts the body's manufacture of the energy-producing molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Loading with creatine allows muscle fibers to work harder for a longer time before the body runs out of ATP. This allows for a heavier more intense workout as creatine can fuel muscle development at a greater speed.

Creatine is found in a variety of foods in various concentrations - the "richest" source of creatine is lean red meat - 2.2 lbs of steak contain approximately 5 grams of creatine. Vegetarians have been shown to have lower creatine storages than meat eaters. But just storing, let alone cooking meat, diminishes its creatine levels.

Creatine monohydrate may do much more than make you stronger and allow you to recover faster between sets: it could also help you pack on the pounds! There's a reason for that - when the muscle absorbs creatine, it also brings water in with it. This promotes a phenomenon called "cell volumizing" or "cellular hydration." Now, when a muscle cell is "hydrated" (holding more water), it gets bigger - fuller - and rounder!

Researchers recommend five grams (usually a teaspoon) dissolved in liquid and taken four times a day for five days to load your muscles. From there, two grams a day - about half a teaspoon - will keep levels sufficiently high.

Source: The Natural Way - Aug. - Sept., 1995
1996 - Supplement Review

Recent research in human sports science indicates that if you supplement a normal diet with creatine monohydrate it will increase the creatine content in the muscles. In a study that was published in Clinical Science, muscle creatine concentrations went up by more than 35% in the exercising muscles of subjects who took creatine supplements several times a day. This work, which shows that creatine supplementation can help improve an athletes performance times in sprint events, was completed by Eric Hultman, Ph.D., who in the early 1960s produced the original research on the importance of carbohydrate loading in increasing time to fatigue during endurance exercise.

Creatine Monohydrate Ingredients: 100% pure Creatine Monohydrate. Not derived from animal sources. 1000 gms. of pure Pharmaceutical Grade Creatine Monohydrate.