{"id":1022,"date":"2009-02-19T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:26:14","slug":"different-does-not-equal-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/different-does-not-equal-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Does Not Equal Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a brief Skype chat session this morning with one of my industry buds: Will Brink&#8230;we were talking about the latest research on creatine ethyl ester (not good), and then moved on to all the different forms of creatine there are on the market now.<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, I combed through some supplement formulas and put together a little list&#8230;here it is:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>creatine monohydrate<br \/>\ncreatine pyruvate<br \/>\ncreatine taurinate<br \/>\ncreatine ethyl ester<br \/>\ncreatine ethyl ester malate<br \/>\ncreatine ethyl carbonate ester<br \/>\ncreatine gluconate<br \/>\ncreatine malate<br \/>\ndicreatine malate<br \/>\ntricreatine malate<br \/>\ncreatine citrate<br \/>\ntricreatine citrate<br \/>\nKre-Alkalyn<br \/>\ncreatine phosphate<br \/>\ncreatine alpha-ketoglutarate<br \/>\ncreatine-6,8-thioctic Acid-ketoisocaproic Acid Calcium (CREAKIC)<br \/>\ncreatine pyroglutamate<br \/>\n&#8220;conjugated creatine&#8221; (Con-Cret)<br \/>\nmagnesium creatine chelate<br \/>\ncreatine anhydrous<br \/>\ndicreatine orotate<br \/>\ntricreatine orotate<br \/>\ncreatine alpha-amino butyrate<br \/>\ncreatine HMB<br \/>\ncarnitine creatinate<br \/>\ntricreatine HCA<br \/>\n&#8220;titrated creatine&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;creatine serum&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also:<br \/>\nglycocyamine (precursor)<br \/>\ncreatinol-o-phosphate (analog)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fascinating thing is how little &#8220;hard&#8221; data there is to support ANY of the\u00a0creatine compounds\u00a0on this list &#8211; with the exception of the first one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/creatine-monohydrate.html\" target=\"_blank\">creatine monohydrate<\/a> (CM). CM literally is the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; when it comes to creatine, and while a few other forms have been tested, not\u00a0A SINGLE ONE OF THEM\u00a0has ever\u00a0been conclusively shown\u00a0to be a significant improvement over the original, w\/respect to gains in lean mass or strength\/performance. Yet, the claims made in ads (and patents\/patent applications) say otherwise. In addition, proprietary blends of several different forms are quite popular, even though there&#8217;s exactly zero proof that a blend of several different forms gives results that are superior to a single one.<\/p>\n<p>Just goes to show you how the <strong>appearance<\/strong> of innovation drives the supplement market&#8230;it&#8217;s all about creating the perception &#8211; no proof is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a brief Skype chat session this morning with one of my industry buds: Will Brink&#8230;we were talking about the latest research on creatine ethyl ester (not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,28],"tags":[248,448,450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}