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actually the reason that some believe that caffeine interrupts the effects of creatine is due to their sharing the same biological pathway utilized for absorption - the argument can be echoed both ways as studies have also inducated the opposite.
there have been many studies conducted on endurance athletes using a combination of caffeine and creatine for perforamnce enhancement that showed very positie results - I have conducted stuides in the same fashion with a stagger to the creatine caffeien use (not taking immediatley at the same time) the results of these studies support the facts that creatine will maintain a priority to utilization and transport into the muscle for utilization and the key is carryingthe creatine through the GUT into the bloodstream with minimal creatinine conversion - caused by pH shift of the creatine upon ingestion.
the best results have been witnessed using creatine 45 minutes to an hour before training and caffeine 20 to 30 minutes before training - this will harness the bets actions of both of these compounds.....after 1 hour any creatine that you have taken that is NOT alrady absorbed and being utilized has already been converted to creatinine and is rendered useless anyhow - so consuming caffeine after this point will not alter the effectivness of creatine what so ever.
one of the reasons we developed the actijube delivery technology for the pharmaceutical industry was for the delivery of drugs that had to be "protected" for their trip through the GUT and into the bloodstream. that is why I decided to evolve that same technology used for pharmaceutical drug delivery into a product for sports performance.....using the actijube delivery technology to deliver creatine into the human body - studies and full PK studies (actual human blood serum study) have proven that creatine delivered by actijube is fully in the system in a period of 30-45 minutes (compared to 1-1 1/2 hours with powders, capsules and pills) and has a blood serum concentration level 115% higher than that of the other creatine delivery forms - and they further showed zero creatinine conversion. that means 100% of what you take is utilized without interruption in half the time of a powder or pill. this given we then did a study taking the creatine actijube 30 minutes before training followed by caffeine 10 minutes before training to spike energy and the results were all the creatine reached its destination and the caffeine did its job for giving the energy boost - not interference. The key is space your creatine caffeine apart by 20 to 40 minutes depending on which delivery form you are using. But using caffeine later in the day will not effect the creatine you have already consumed hours earlier.....that is a misconception.
Terry Giles
http://65.240.228.161/forums....d=77942
there have been many studies conducted on endurance athletes using a combination of caffeine and creatine for perforamnce enhancement that showed very positie results - I have conducted stuides in the same fashion with a stagger to the creatine caffeien use (not taking immediatley at the same time) the results of these studies support the facts that creatine will maintain a priority to utilization and transport into the muscle for utilization and the key is carryingthe creatine through the GUT into the bloodstream with minimal creatinine conversion - caused by pH shift of the creatine upon ingestion.
the best results have been witnessed using creatine 45 minutes to an hour before training and caffeine 20 to 30 minutes before training - this will harness the bets actions of both of these compounds.....after 1 hour any creatine that you have taken that is NOT alrady absorbed and being utilized has already been converted to creatinine and is rendered useless anyhow - so consuming caffeine after this point will not alter the effectivness of creatine what so ever.
one of the reasons we developed the actijube delivery technology for the pharmaceutical industry was for the delivery of drugs that had to be "protected" for their trip through the GUT and into the bloodstream. that is why I decided to evolve that same technology used for pharmaceutical drug delivery into a product for sports performance.....using the actijube delivery technology to deliver creatine into the human body - studies and full PK studies (actual human blood serum study) have proven that creatine delivered by actijube is fully in the system in a period of 30-45 minutes (compared to 1-1 1/2 hours with powders, capsules and pills) and has a blood serum concentration level 115% higher than that of the other creatine delivery forms - and they further showed zero creatinine conversion. that means 100% of what you take is utilized without interruption in half the time of a powder or pill. this given we then did a study taking the creatine actijube 30 minutes before training followed by caffeine 10 minutes before training to spike energy and the results were all the creatine reached its destination and the caffeine did its job for giving the energy boost - not interference. The key is space your creatine caffeine apart by 20 to 40 minutes depending on which delivery form you are using. But using caffeine later in the day will not effect the creatine you have already consumed hours earlier.....that is a misconception.
Terry Giles
http://65.240.228.161/forums....d=77942
