Thanks for any replies. I just bought some creatine at vitamin world.

Mick

I'm afraid I don't quite know what you are asking. Are you asking what is the difference between different brands and types of creatine and dex?

I'm asking if there is a difference b/t crreatine and dextrose. If so, what. I assumed they were two different suppliments.

Creatine is an amino acid derivative that has been known to enhance strength and build muscle. Often used by athletes for its effects on muscular endurance and strength. Cr is capable of becoming transformed into PCr and used as a source of energy. Because people with HD often suffer from energy deficits, supplementation with Cr can possibly benefit PHD’s by increasing energy availability.

Destrose is a simple sugar (monosaccharide). It is found naturally in fruits and honey or is produced commercially by acid conversion of mainly wheat or maize starch. It is used in bread to aid fermentation and is used in many bakery products to impart crust colour without over-sweetening.

Creatine is an amino acid derivative that has been known to enhance strength and build muscle. Often used by athletes for its effects on muscular endurance and strength. Cr is capable of becoming transformed into PCr and used as a source of energy. Because people with HD often suffer from energy deficits, supplementation with Cr can possibly benefit PHD’s by increasing energy availability.

Destrose is a simple sugar (monosaccharide). It is found naturally in fruits and honey or is produced commercially by acid conversion of mainly wheat or maize starch. It is used in bread to aid fermentation and is used in many bakery products to impart crust colour without over-sweetening.


:tu: Creatine is naturally occuring. You have some in your body right. Its highest natural source is red meat if I am not mistaken. However, you body does not have anywhere near the amount it can store in it. Thus supplementing with it gives your body more to use. In a nutshell and without going into the chem, it allows you to generate more energy in anerobic conditions. It is essentially an energy buffer. We generally store it as phosophocreatine. Incase you junkies out there want to know.... it made from glycine, then in the systhesis you use arginine, and methionine and then a molecule of ATP to phosphorylate to phosphocreatine and save it like that till we need energy badly.

A little more indepth:

So we store phosphocreatine at concentrations of 10-30mM in our skeletal muscles. When you have plenty of ATP around, you make your creatine into phosphocreatine. When you are ATP starved (say toward the end of your set) due to exhaustive anerobic labor, your phosphocreatine will react with ADP due to increased ADP concentration and make ATP. Now you rest again and let your body more or less dissapate the anerobic conditions. Thus you can make some creatine back into phosophocreatine. This is why creatine doesn't really make you lift more... it helps you sustain anerobic conditions longer and thus typically add another rep or two. This will let you progress faster obviously since you can work the muscles fibers more and in the end lift more. Cheers!

thanks again. Should a person use dextrose as well?

Should a person use dextrose as well?Mick, you yourself started a thread a few days ago about dextrose to which lots of people responded with good information. I don't understand why you're asking all over again here.

Yes, you should use dextrose post workout 1:1 volumewise with your whey protein. Yes, you should try creatine, 5-10g per day. However, these two things have nothing to do with each other.

I guess I was thinking at first they were the samething :p

thanks for the input