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Effect of Caffeine on effectiveness of Creatine

dioltas · 2010-02-19 21:06:04

Interesting article here on effect of taking creatine with caffeine. It seems caffeine reduces the amount of creatine in the muscles if taken in large amounts regularly, but can enhance the effect of the creatine if taken in a once off dose. It's not too clear on the effect of caffeine on creatine levels in the muscles…

19-02-2010 9:06pm

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Interesting article here on effect of taking creatine with caffeine.
It seems caffeine reduces the amount of creatine in the muscles if taken in large amounts regularly, but can enhance the effect of the creatine if taken in a once off dose.

It's not too clear on the effect of caffeine on creatine levels in the muscles when not supplementing with creatine.

Wasn't sure whether to post this in the Nutrition forum, here or in the Supps thread, feel free to move it mods.

http://www.ergo-log.com/creatinecaffeine.html

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