Creatine Edge

What can it do for me?
Creatine edge is perfect for anyone who exercises on a regular basis. It is beneficial for such exercises as riding a bike, lifting weights, Tae Bo, kickboxing and virtually any competitive sport. Creatine edge fuels your muscles, providing constant energy to help maintain your intensity. Your muscles just don't get tired as fast as they normally would, giving you the opportunity to go harder for a longer period of time. In short, Creatine edge gives you a safe, effective tool to help you reach your fitness and body transformation goals.

Creatine provides your muscles with energy to do work. This is accomplished by replenishing ATP stores within the muscle. Though your body produces creatine naturally, the stores of this amino acid derivative are depleted during exercise. By using Creatine edge, you give your body a more efficient means of replenishing its muscular energy stores.

Creatine edge is a patented formulation that provides your body with the most efficient means of creatine supplementation. This innovative formula has been proven at a leading university to be over 4 times more absorbable than regular creatine monohydrate, the form used in virtually every other creatine product currently available to the consumer.

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Advantages vs. other creatine products
The most popular creatine on the market today is creatine monohydrate. This is simply because it was the first creatine to become popular in the early 1990's. As the evolution of creatine began to speed up through the 90's, it became apparent that along with creatine monohydrate came a slew of side effects that include all of the following:

In 1997, FSI's V.P. of Research, Joe Carnazzo, R.Ph., invented and patented effervescent creatine. This formulation does not use creatine monohydrate, but instead, a proprietary form of creatine citrate. This product revolutionized the creatine industry, as it rid users of all of the side effects listed above due to its increased bioavailability.

This invention leaves any other creatine product on the market obsolete. Below is a list of creatine forms currently on the market and the problems in utilizing them.

Pure Creatine Monohydrate
Creatine monohydrate was found to be only 20% in absorbable form after 20 minutes in water, compared to 92% for FSI's patented technology. This from a recent university study. Don't let the phrases 'muscle uptake. and 'assimilation. confuse you. The uptake of creatine into muscle can only take place after the creatine has been absorbed through the intestine walls into the bloodstreams. What this study shows is that if you take a 10-gram serving of creatine monohydrate, regardless of what additives are included in the product, only 2 grams will even be available for muscle uptake, or assimilation.

In addition, because 80% of creatine monohydrate is not in an absorbable form for the body, it simply sits in the stomach drawing water from the bloodstream in an attempt to break it down. This simply doesn't work and instead causes the body to become dehydrated, which leads to all of the side effects listed above, most common of which is diarrhea.

Creatine Monohydrate with High Amounts of Dextrose
The creation of these products was based on published research using high amounts (up to 96 grams) of dextrose in order to cause a large insulin spike to increase creatine muscle uptake. The problem with this is three-fold. First, it doesn't solve the original problem of creatine bioavailability, which we have already addressed. The intestine must first absorb creatine before the muscle can assimilate it.

Second, taking sugar in these high amounts leads to both weight gain, attributed to fat gain, and the danger of pancreatic damage associated with long term use.

Third, this concept is based on outdated research. A more current published study concluded that creatine muscle uptake is dependent on sodium, but not on insulin. If its not dependent on an insulin spike, why take the sugar in the first place??!!

Creatine liquids or serums
FSI has had virtually every liquid and serum creatine product on the market tested for stability, and to date none have come even close to passing label claims. In fact, the leading serum brand was found to have less than 2% of the 5 grams it claimed to have per serving. The remainder was found to be creatine, a dangerous by-product of creatine conversion.

Creatine Gel Caps
These products use creatine monohydrate in a gel tablet or capsule. This will not help the bioavailability or absorption rate of creatine monohydrate.

Creatine Citrate in water
This sounds half-way plausible. Unfortunately, it again doesn't solve the problem of creatine bioavailability or stability.

Creatine Citrate has been found to be more soluble, or water dispersible, than creatine monohydrate. However, soluble does not equal bioavailable to the body. The definition of these words are below according to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:

Soluble - susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water.

Bioavailability - the degree and rate at which a substance (as a drug) is absorbed into a living system or is made available at the site of physiological activity.

As you can see, because a substance is soluble, that does not make it more available to the body to be absorbed. Many companies in this industry try to confuse you with buzzwords such as 'soluble., 'transport., and 'assimilation. in order to hide the inferiorities of their creatine products and their fundamental problem..bioavailability.

Yet another problem with Creatine Citrate lies in its stability. A university study looked at the conversion rates of regular creatine citrate in water and FSI's proprietary form of creatine citrate in effervescent form. What this study found was that creatine citrate in water has an exceptionally quick and almost instantaneous conversion to creatinine once it is introduced into water. However, FSI's technology is 100% stable for up to 30 days in solution.

Furthermore, creatine citrate in water does not afford creatine any protection once it is ingested into the stomach. The acidic environment of the stomach can quickly damage both creatine monohydrate and creatine citrate once ingested, converting it to the dangerous by-product creatinine. These forms of creatine can sit in the stomach for an hour or longer, the whole time being exposed to this volatile environment.

FSI's technology affords creatine a buffered solution to protect it from this acidic environment once it enters the stomach. In addition, the PH shift caused by the effervescence causes a quick 'dumping. of the stomach contents to the small intestine. Here, the danger ceases and the absorption process of free creatine ion can begin through the intestinal walls to the bloodstream.