We all know people that speak fluent foolishness, and that particularly is true in certain arenas

like chat rooms about supplements on the internet.

So it can be challenging to decide which supplement to buy.

So if you decide, I do want to use creatine, and I'm not recommending that to anybody,

but if your goals and why you're doing something and what you want

to achieve aligns with using creatine and you're going to use it anyway, you should know

which one to buy.

And the first thing to say is that it's not like buying airline tickets, so all creatine

should be pretty cheap, meaning you can get several months supply really for under $10.

Now, there's a lot of types of creatine out there, and the one that is most popular, as well as usually the

cheapest, and I think has the best safety record, is creatine monohydraterate. Now how can I say it has a safety record?

Is that bro-science and just everybody at the gym being like, hey man, it's good? No, there's actually

data on this. And even the International Society of Sports Nutrition took a positional stand.

And they call that article the safety and efficacy of

creatine supplementation in exercise, sport, and medicine. And that was published in June of 2017.

And the journal you can find that article in is the journal of the International Society

of Sports Nutrition. And they try and sum up the

studies that are available. And what they say is these studies provide a large body of evidence

that creatine can not only improve exercise performance, but can play a role in preventing or

reducing the severity of injury, enhancing rehabilitation

from injuries, and helping athletes tolerate heavy training loads.

They go on to say that these studies show that short and long-term supplementation,

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