solubility of creatine in gatorade?
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Not a pro at taking that stuff any more, but I found shaking it in a bottle and drinking it quickly was the best way.  It didn't seem to matter what quantity I used: the powder would settle at the bottom.
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uh, i thought gatorade had salt in it. don't drink it.\n\nDrink water, pure water.  At least 6 glasses a day.\n\nCut down on salty foods.\n\nSee a doctor if it persists... it's really not worth tempting fate.
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Creatine is fine for anyone of any age. It it is a supplemental form of creatine that is found in meat and fish. "Loading" ( lots during the first week ) is usually a great way to sell you more creatine, so I'd ignore it if I were you. You might benefit from the extra pump you'll get, especially since testosterone levels steadily decrease after 30. Drink LOTS of water with it during the day, or you won't feel any results.\nWhey protein is a great way to supplement your protein intake. Designer Whey is a great brand. Start with small amounts, as it may take your system a couple of weeks to adjust to the new digestion requirements. It can make you gassy at first. This is normal.\nEat healthy meals - 4 to 5 times a day and use these as supplements, and you'll enjoy your work outs and new muscle definition more!\nGood luck!
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creatine enables your body to retain water if you spike your insulin levels with grape juice this will increase the effect, grape out of all the juices is the best but others will work but not as well. if a person is using creatine with a good diet and moderate to heavy training the regimen will produce good results. good luck
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Recommended maintenance dosage is 0.03 grams per kilogram of body weight, so for 160 lbs. you could take 2 grams per day for no more than 30 days. Try taking it about 30 minutes before exercise.  As far as it helping to build muscles, one of the side effects of creatine is that it makes cells absorb water, so you will get slightly bulkier muscles, but it will be mostly water weight. I will not recommend its use for track and field because it may cause you to dehydrate too early, which will be detrimental to your performance.
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glutamine PEPTIDES are ok to be taken with creatine.  L-glutamine (notice the L) such as gluFM should be taken by itself.  the glutamine and creatine do compete with each other and so one will win and the other will lose.  the peptides are more stable and more soluble (L-glutaminei s not soluble).\n\nso unless you have a product that has glutamine + creatine in it, you can take L-glutamine and creatine roughly 1-2 hours apart.
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I thought this would be easier to answer than it was.  I did finally find it in a reference titled Cosmetics Additives - An Industrial Guide.\n\n\nIt states:\n\ndl-alpha tocopheryl acetate\n-insoluble in water.\n-freely soluble in alcohol.\n-miscible with acetone, ether, chloroform, vegetable oils, etc
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Yes, women can take creatine too.  I use to take it when I workout, but I don't anymore.  I didn't want to get bulky, so I stopped.  It's totally safe for women to take.  Read the dosage on the back of the bottle or ask a Rep. in a Vitamin are GNC store.
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take it before and after nowadays creatine is cheap enough to use 2o grams per day if you wanted too..but 5 grams before and 5 grams following your workout is all you really need to experience benefits
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Creatine and amino acids serve different purposes.  I don't take amino acid supplementation, so I haven't done much research on it, but I am taking creatine and have done a lot of reading on it.\n\nCreatine is a natural substance that you obtain from your diet and can make yourself.  Creatine's primary purpose in weightlifting is to replenish ATP stores during intense activity.  By taking creatine supplementation you can increase your creatine stores by up to 40% (depending on how much you are already getting in your diet).  This will allow you to work out harder longer and get better results from your training.\n\nCreatine is also known to cause cell volumization, as it causes the muscles to hold more water.  Note that this is different the water retention, as water retention is when water is retained on the outside of the cells, causing the muscles to lose definition and look smoother.  Cell volumization pulls the water into the cells and causes the muscles to look harder.\n\nThere are also studies that have come to light recently that show that cell volumization can make protein synthesis more productive.  In theory this could mean that creatine could directly help you build muscle, but more research needs to be done to prove this effect.\n\nCreatine is also a very safe substance to supplement.  While there are rumors of some side effects, such as muscle cramping, kidney problems, etc, no studies have actually proved these to be actual risks.  One possible risk is the down regulation of the creatine transporters due to oversupplementation, but if you follow the recommended guidelines you shouldn't have to worry about that effect.  To be safe you should actually take less creatine than most manufacturers recommend, though.  Studies have shown that your body can absorb a lot less than most companies suggest you take anyway.  They have found that your body is unable to absorb more than 3-5 grams of creatine per day after you have finished loading.  To top that off, after working out you are capable of absorbing up to 10% more than your normal maximum capacitiy.  They estamate that you only use 3% of your creatine stores when you don't work out.  That means that if you are fully loaded and then take creatine after working out you will have more creatine than you body can obsorb for the next 3-4 days or until you work out again.  Bottom line: after loading it is only necessary to take creatine after working out.  I only take about 5 grams after I work out to replenish the creatine I have used.\n\nAs far as amino acids go, do some research and see what the benefits are to you.  I've already found an article that proved to me that glutamine is a waste of money, but I haven't researced any of the other availlable products.
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"Creatine is an important compound produced by the body. It combines with phosphorus to make a high-energy phosphate compound in the body. Creatine phosphate is used in skeletal muscle contraction.  The creatinine test is used to diagnose impaired kidney function and to determine renal (kidney) damage."\n\nhttp://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/creatinine_test.jsp\n\n"Creatinine is a breakdown product of creatine, which is an important part of muscle. A serum creatinine test measures the amount of creatinine in the blood.  The test is performed to evaluate kidney function. If kidney function is abnormal, creatinine levels will increase in the blood, due to decreased excretion of creatinine in the urine. Creatinine levels also vary according to a person's size and muscle mass."\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003475.htm
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I take Creatine and praise this supplement!!!  Creatine definitely makes you stronger (bench press went to 275lbs. and I weight 150lbs.) and look "buff".  Reason why you look buff is because Creatine is a "water magnet" absorbing water into your muscles hence the term "muscle volumizer".  That is why you'll need to take in lots of water or it won't work.  Plus without enough water you will most likely have muscle cramps.  So take in the required water and more, or else you'll be in pain and not have the the full benifits of creatine.  Also you do not need to do a loading period.  It is just the manufacturors way of getting you to buy more of the product.
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As far as I know, there's no documented adverse creatine side effects - only desirable side effects of creatine. I've used it personally with great results.\n\nExtensive experiments have been done to test creatine side effects on humans, and the only documented adverse effect of creatine supplementation is an increase in body mass.\n\nAlso take caution as there are no long term studies on high dosage effects on creatine use. So its recommended that you follow the instructions on the label and don't over do it. \n\nAlways use as directed, at your own risk and always weight train safely.\n\nThe National Strength and Conditioning Association has several scientific publications on creatine.\nhttp://nsca-lift.org/
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Creatine "Ethyl Ester" will promote a more leaner muscle where as Creatine" Monohydrate" promotes a bigger albeit more bloated type of muscle. There are some good articles at the website below, also they have great prices on all the best stuff. Personally i like the creatine made by Cellmass and also that made by AST.
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Most solutes (sugar in this case) have limited solubility (ability to dissolve) in most solvents (water in this case). This solubility varies with temperature - the hotter the solution, the higher the solubility. As mentioned in an earlier answer, this means more energy must be added to dissolve more solute. On the other hand, if energy is taken out of a solution, the solute will usually  come out of the solution, depending on the concentration.\n\nThis physical law that governs this is the 2nd law of thermodyamics.
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Creatine definately, also whey protein, and Muscletech has some products like Gakic, Leukic, Creakic, Anator P-90. These all available at GNC. But remember you cant take these supplements and expect to get ripped, you need to take these supplements and lift weights. Anator P-90 is very sketchy tho, its for serious professional bodybuilders. none of the supplements i listed are steroids.
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At fifteen years of age, creatin will not help you, and using ANY "steroids" is not smart as your body is still developing NATUARALLY. Using anything similar to a steroid can actually hinder the "natural growth" of your body...\n\nBut here's the info you were looking for:\n\nCreatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that naturally occurs in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle cells.\n\nIt is public knowledge that meat (which has a lot of creatine) enhanced performance long before modern science discovered creatine. The big winner in the 480 B.C. Olympic Games said he ate nothing but meat for 10 months prior to the Games to get ready.\n\nIn 1832, the French scientist Michel Eugène Chevreul discovered a component of skeletal muscle that he later named creatine after the Greek word for flesh, Kreas.\n\nIn 1912, researchers found that ingesting creatine can dramatically boost the creatine content of the muscle. In the late 1920s, scientists found that the intramuscular stores of creatine can be increased by ingesting creatine in larger than normal amounts, discovered creatine phosphate, and determined that creatine is a key player in the metabolism of skeletal muscle.\n\nThe Russians and other Eastern Bloc countries may have used creatine as a sports supplement as far back as the 1970s, although this is a matter of debate.\n\nWhile creatine's influence on physical performance has been well documented since the early twentieth century, it only recently came into public view following the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. An August 7, 1992 article in The Times reported that Linford Christie, the gold medal winner at 100 meters, had utilized creatine prior to the Olympics, and an article in Bodybuilding Monthly named Sally Gunnell, gold medalist in the 400-meter hurdles, as another creatine user. Several medal-winning British rowers also used creatine during their preparations for the Barcelona games.\n\nAt the time, low-potency creatine supplements were available in Britain, but creatine supplements designed for strength enhancement were not commercially available until 1993 when a company called EAS (Exercise, Atheletics, Strength) introduced the compound to the sports nutrition market under the name Phosphagen. In 1998, the launch of the first creatine-carbohydrate-alpha lipoic acid supplement, Cell-Tech, by another company called MuscleTech Research and Development, took place. Alpha lipoic acid enhances muscle phosphocreatine levels and total muscle creatine concentrations. This approach to creatine supplementation was validated in a study performed in 2003 by Burke et al., of the Department of Human Kinetics at St. Francis Xavier University. Another important event in creatine supplementation occurred in 2004 when the first creatine ethyl ester supplements were launched. To date, the most extensively researched brand-name creatine supplement is Cell-Tech, with three published studies on the actual product (Parise, G., et al. 2000,. Kalman, D., et al., and 2000 Tarnopolsky et al, 2001). Both Phosphagen and Cell-Tech still remain widely used by athletes around the world.\n\nCreatine Ethyl Ester (CEE) is becoming a widely used form of creatine, with many companies now carrying both creatine monohydrate-based supplements and Creatine Ethyl Ester supplements, or combinations of both. CEE is touted to have absorbtion rates tens of times higher than regular creatine monohydrate by several supplement companies. Creatine monohydrate ($400 million in annual sales in the United States alone) remains the most used form of creatine.\n\nSynthesis\nIn the human body creatine is synthesized mainly in the liver by the use of parts from three different amino acids - arginine, glycine, and methionine. 95% of it is later stored in the skeletal muscles, with the rest in the brain, heart, and testes.\n\nThe enzyme GATM (Guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase, also known as L-arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT),