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Old 02-22-2007, 02:11 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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As I said "in general" you shouldn't. It really depends on what's in them but I would pretty much advize against it. Weight gainers generally produce a kind of mixture that results in slower gastric emptying and having the creatine hanging in the stomach for extended periods would render it useless.

You can take it with whey. You can take it with carb mixtures. Or both. You don't want fat. Or gums of any kind. Or casein. Weight gainers may contain any of these plus some other stuff. Put it this way, the thicker the goop and the more stuff it has in it the slower it absorbs. So for using the creatine pre and or post you want a little whey with carbs and water or fruit juice only. With creatine mono you need plenty of liquid also. When you first start it (if you choose mono) this is even more important.

BTW, what I said about peptides vs. single aminos may be a little misleading. I was thinking of dipeptides (two aminos) vs. free form or single aminos. If there are longer chains of glutamine peptides they may be hydroluzed in the gut into free form glutamine. In which case you'd just have more free form glutamine which is good as far as glutamine is concerned the extra glutamine probably doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

If there are dipeptides of glutamine present these could be possibly be absorbed through different channels.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.

Last edited by EricT; 02-22-2007 at 03:09 PM.
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