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Creatine monohydrate
I would like to ask if Creatine monohydrate can be used in place of Creatine?
I wanted to buy Creatine from Ingredients To Die For, which seems that they are the only one selling it, but they take very long to process their order.
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In my experience, most people don’t even know the difference nor care that there is a slight one (even in scientific publications!).Most creatine sold is actually creatine monohydrate
. Once you put anhydrous creatine in water it will “hydrate”, resulting in the exact same thing if you consider the slight difference in molecular weight of the two.I got my creatine from one of the many “body-building webshops”… again, most sell monohydrate even if that’s nowhere mentioned. -
While some studies suggest that creating works for aged skin,
as far as I know, creatine slowly degrades in water solution.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19635041
https://www.academia.edu/6026552/Effect_of_water_activity_and_temperature_on_the_stability_of_creatine_during_storage_Effect_of_water_activity_on_creatine_stabilityA creatine salt like Creatine HCl or Creatine citrate (which you can make by reacting creatine monohydrate with dilute HCl or citric acid yourself), might be a bit more resistant to degradation.
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Or use creatine ethyl ester hydrochloride or creatinol-O-phosphate
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Creatine and creatine monohydrate are essentially the same thing. One is anhydrous the other is hydrated. Unless you are using this in a dry powder, it isn’t going to make any difference.
Even if you do use it in a powder, anhydrous will turn to monohydrate quickly enough. It is a fairly hygroscopic material
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