For decades, athletes – both novices and elite athletes – have leaned on nutritional supplements, or ergogenic aids, to enhance exercise and performance.
One of the most popular aids today, creatine, had a head start…
In the early 19th century – 1832 to be exact – a young French chemist named Michel Eugène was busy in his lab, unravelling the mysteries of different biological substances.
While examining the muscles of a dead animal, Chevreul stumbled upon a peculiar compound. Appearing to play a crucial role in how the muscles functioned, it caught his attention.
Intrigued by this substance functioned, he extracted it and named it "creatine," derived from the Greek word "kreas," meaning meat flesh.
Chevreul, not fully understanding what he had just discovered, had, in truth, uncovered a substance that would transform sports science.
Fast forward to the 20th century… Researchers picked up where Chevreul left off and began studying the effects of creatine on humans. In the 1920s, they found that the body could store creatine – a landmark finding.
But it wasn’t until the early 1990s when serious, double-blind and placebo-controlled research finally began on creatine – in its creatine monohydrate form.
A team of scientists found that taking 20 g of creatine monohydrate per day for five days increased creatine levels in muscles by about 20%.*
And higher levels in the muscle meant improved performance during high-intensity exercise and quicker recovery between bouts of effort.*
This discovery rocked the sports world – and just in time for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
Many Olympic athletes embraced creatine monohydrate and attributed it to their enhanced performance in sprint and power events. Gold medal winners Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell revealed creatine was a factor in their success.
What started as a simple observation in a Parisian laboratory had evolved into a cornerstone of modern sports nutrition, transforming the way athletes train and compete.
Why Do Athletes Swear by Creatine Monohydrate?
In the bustling world of athletic performance, where every edge counts and every second matters, creatine monohydrate stands out as a powerhouse supplement for athletes pushing their limits.
So, what’s the difference between creatine and creatine monohydrate?
Creatine is a naturally occurring tripeptide compound, made up of three amino acids – glycine, arginine and methionine. Found in small amounts in beef, chicken, milk, cheese and fish, your body also produces some creatine, mainly in your liver.
Functioning almost like a vitamin (although it’s not), creatine supports muscle strength, short energy bursts, as well as muscle recovery and optimizing body composition.
About 95% of the creatine in your body is stored in your muscle tissue. But because you excrete creatine daily, it’s a substance that must be replenished regularly.
Consisting of about 90% of creatine by weight, creatine monohydrate is a form of creatine made up of one water molecule and one creatine molecule. The unique combination of creatine and water allows more water to be drawn into your muscles, leading to a rapid increase in size.
Because you lose creatine continually and it’s hard to get adequate amounts in food, many people who work out regularly and wanting to increase their lean body mass and muscle strength choose to supplement creatine or creatine monohydrate.
The reason why athletes love creatine monohydrate is because it gives them more energy. It’s also the form with the most research behind it.
You see, when you do vigorous exercise like doing more reps, lifting heavier weights or anything that requires intense short bursts of speed, it depletes the energy in your cells and muscles, leaving them hungry for fuel.
Creatine monohydrate helps your body produce more adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, the primary energy currency of your cells. Replacing the ATP lost during activity provides your muscles with the extra energy they need to meet the increased demands, as well as recovery afterwards.*
One way athletes use creatine monohydrate is through what’s known as “creatine loading.” By taking a higher dose for the first week of use, split into several equal doses throughout the day, you help saturate your muscle cells for faster results.
To fully saturate your muscles, experts advise taking a total of 20 to 25 g of creatine monohydrate for the first five to seven days, divided into four to five equal doses.
Beyond Exercise, Could Creatine Monohydrate Help You Focus and Think More Clearly?
While creatine monohydrate may be well-known for its benefits for athletic performance, its impact on cognition and brain health is an area of growing interest and research.
Creatine plays a crucial role in energy production, particularly in tissues with high energy demands, such as muscles and the brain.
Your brain, like your muscles, requires a constant supply of energy to function optimally, and creatine supports this by replenishing ATP. By boosting ATP levels, creatine monohydrate supports cognitive function, particularly in tasks requiring significant mental effort.
One of the most notable cognitive benefits of creatine monohydrate is its potential to support short-term memory and intelligence.
Studies show creatine supplementation can enhance performance in tasks that require working memory, such as mathematical calculations and problem-solving.
This is especially so in situations where the brain is under increased demand, such as during sleep deprivation or intense mental stress.
The ability of creatine to sustain ATP levels in the brain during these challenging conditions can lead to better mental clarity, quicker decision-making, and improved overall cognitive performance.
A six-week study of 45 healthy young adults taking 5 g of creatine monohydrate per day as an oral supplement led to a significant positive effect on brain and cognitive function, including working memory and intelligence.*
How Creatine Monohydrate Supports a Healthy Brain
In addition to its effects on memory and problem-solving, creatine monohydrate may also play a role in supporting brain health. Research suggests that creatine can help ease the negative effects of oxidative stress in the brain.
Oxidative stress occurs when there is an imbalance between free radicals – highly reactive molecules that can damage cells – and your body’s ability to neutralize them with antioxidants.
It’s particularly damaging in the brain because neurons are highly susceptible to oxidative damage, which can lead to cell death.
One of the ways creatine monohydrate helps reduce oxidative stress is through your brain's energy metabolism.
By producing ATP and helping to maintain mitochondrial function, creatine helps reduce the leakage of electrons that can form free radicals, thereby lowering oxidative stress.
By reducing oxidative damage and supporting mitochondrial function, creatine monohydrate helps maintain the integrity of brain cells and may help your brain stay younger longer.
What’s more, creatine has been studied for its potential benefits in mental health and mood. Through its ability to increase energy in brain regions associated with mood regulation, creatine monohydrate may be a valuable ally for your mental well-being.
Introducing Pure Power Creatine Monohydrate
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a serious competitive athlete or a weekend warrior, you need the right ingredients to help unlock your pure potential.
Working together to bring out the strongest version of you, the amino acids in Pure Power Creatine Monohydrate provide you with the ingredients you need to power through the toughest challenges.
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Pure Power Creatine Monohydrate may help you…
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Improve your strength, power and energy.*
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Increase your muscle mass.*
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Perform better – run faster, lift more weight and get better muscle pumps.*
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Recover faster from your workout.*
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Focus and think more clearly.*
Available in your choice of convenient capsules or powder, you can choose the form of Creatine Monohydrate that best fits your lifestyle.
In capsule form, each two-capsule serving of Creatine Monohydrate delivers 2.5 g of creatine monohydrate.
For the powder, each one (1) scoop serving provides 5 g of creatine monohydrate. Because of the powder’s neutral flavor, it’s easily added to any beverage of your choice. We recommend mixing it with at least 8 fl. oz. of liquid.
Capsules or powder, our clean formula contains no artificial flavors or colors, caffeine, artificial sweeteners or genetically engineered (GMOs) ingredients.
Because creatine monohydrate is made up of not one, but three amino acids – glycine, arginine and methionine – let’s take a brief look at how each of these can potentially benefit not just your athletic performance, but total health as well.
The No. 1 Longevity Amino Acid - Glycine
Glycine, a non-essential amino acid, may be the smallest amino acid, but it plays a crucial role in several biological processes, including protein synthesis, neurotransmission and maintaining healthy tissues.
And for athletic performance, glycine has been rapidly gaining recognition for its potential to support recovery, enhance muscle function and improve overall physical performance.
One of glycine's most significant roles in athletic performance is its involvement in collagen synthesis.
Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body and is made mostly of glycine. It’s essential for the health of your connective tissues, including tendons, ligaments, and cartilage – tissues critical for joint stability and mobility.
Adequate glycine intake helps support collagen production, promoting faster recovery from intense physical activity.*
Glycine also plays a role in creatine synthesis, as we’ve already seen is crucial for replenishing ATP during short bursts of intense activity like sprinting or weightlifting.
By contributing to creatine production, glycine indirectly supports energy availability, allowing athletes to perform at higher intensities for longer periods.*
Another notable benefit of glycine is its potential to improve sleep quality, which is crucial for recovery and performance.*
Acting as a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, glycine promotes relaxation and reduces core body temperature, both of which support better sleep.*
Improved sleep can lead to enhanced muscle recovery, better cognitive function and overall improved athletic performance.
Glycine also aids in the production of glutathione, your body’s master antioxidant that helps prevent cellular and mitochondrial damage, including the signs of early aging.*
The challenge with glycine is most of us can’t make enough of it as we age. And that’s unfortunate as the latest research suggests it may be the number one supplement for supporting longevity.*
Supporting so many systems in your body – your muscles, brain, heart, digestion, blood sugar levels, immune function as well as your vascular and metabolic health – glycine is an amino acid that you don’t want to run low on.*
While high-protein foods like meat, fish, poultry, eggs and dairy contain some glycine, the best sources of glycine are what most people throw away – the bones and skins from meat, fish and poultry.
That’s why I believe it’s essential to include a source of supplemental glycine in my daily routine – and yours, too.
Arginine – The Winning Ingredient for Your Athletic Performance
An amino acid that is conditionally essential, arginine plays a key role in numerous physiological processes that can significantly enhance your athletic performance.*
One of arginine’s primary benefits is its ability to increase nitric oxide (NO) production by acting as its precursor.
Nitric oxide is a vasodilator, meaning it relaxes the inner muscles of your blood vessels, allowing them to widen or dilate. This process, known as vasodilation, promotes greater blood flow, which can help deliver more oxygen and nutrients to working muscles during exercise.
As a result, you may potentially experience improved endurance and a reduced feeling of fatigue, enabling you to train harder and longer.*
Along with supporting healthy blood flow by helping your veins and arteries relax, this soluble gas stored in the lining of your blood vessels promotes healthy endothelial or blood vessel function and heart health.*
Because of what’s known as endothelial dysfunction that can happen as you age, your body loses about 10% each year of its ability to convert arginine to NO.
But that’s not all… other factors, such as inadequate sun exposure and a processed food diet can also affect your body’s production of NO, as well as optimal blood flow.
Additionally, arginine's involvement in the urea cycle supports the removal of ammonia, a byproduct of protein metabolism that can accumulate during intense exercise and contribute to muscle fatigue.*
By facilitating the removal of ammonia, arginine helps maintain a more favorable environment for muscle function and recovery.*
Another potential benefit of arginine is its ability to support immune function. Intense physical activity can sometimes suppress your immune system, increasing your susceptibility to threats.
Arginine supports your body’s natural immune defenses by promoting the normal, healthy activity of immune cells, such as T-cells and natural killer cells.*
A stronger immune system can mean staying on track and maintaining consistent training schedules, and avoiding unwelcome setbacks.
Help Maintain Your Energy Levels With Methionine
Methionine, an essential sulfur-containing amino acid, plays a crucial role in optimizing athletic performance.
As a precursor to molecules like cysteine and taurine, methionine contributes to antioxidant defense, detoxification and overall cellular health.
The ability of methionine to support these processes directly impacts athletic performance by enhancing muscle function, reducing oxidative stress and promoting recovery.*
One of methionine's key benefits for athletes is its role in creatine synthesis. As we’ve seen, creatine helps replenish ATP, the primary energy source for muscle contractions during intense activity.
By supporting creatine production, methionine can help you maintain energy levels during high-intensity training, potentially improving strength and power output.*
Additionally, methionine contributes to the production of glutathione, a powerful antioxidant that protects cells from oxidative stress, which is particularly high during intense physical activity.
This antioxidant defense helps neutralize harmful free radicals, reduce muscle damage and promote faster recovery.*
Methionine also supports the maintenance of healthy connective tissues through its role as a precursor to SAMe (S-adenosylmethionine). SAMe is involved in methylation processes that contribute to the repair and maintenance of cartilage, tendons and ligaments.
For you, this means that adequate methionine intake can help support joint health and may reduce the likelihood of injuries related to connective tissue wear and tear.*
I believe ensuring sufficient methionine intake is particularly important if you are engaged in high-intensity training or are prone to oxidative stress and connective tissue injuries.
NSF Certified for Sport® - A Formula You Can Trust
Many dietary supplements promise extra strength and power, but can you trust them?
Some products have been shown to not even contain the ingredients or quantities shown on the label, and others may contain unwanted or banned substances.
Aiming to provide individuals with safer choices when selecting dietary supplements, National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) International has developed the first truly independent testing standard and product certification program known as NSF/ANSI 173.
NSF International’s Certified for Sport® program meets the growing demands of athletes, coaches and all those concerned about banned substances in dietary supplements and functional foods.
Pure Power Creatine Monohydrate is Certified for Sport® by NSF International, the only independent third-party certification program recognized by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and the Canadian Football League.
Certified for Sport® is also recommended by the NFL, NBA, PGA, LPGA, CCES, CPSDA, iNADO, Ironman, NASCAR, Taylor Hooton Foundation and many other organizations seeking to mitigate the risks of contaminated dietary supplements.
There are many quality components of the Certified for Sport® certification program:
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The product is manufactured at a facility that is GMP registered and audited up to two times per year for quality and safety by NSF International to comply with the U.S. FDA’s Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements.
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Toxicological review of the label to make sure all ingredients are allowed to be in a dietary supplement and that the amount of each ingredient does not exceed typical use levels established by NSF.
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The product and label are tested to verify product formulation and label claims to be sure that what’s on the label is in the product. Then chemical and contaminant testing is conducted to make sure there are no potentially harmful levels of specific contaminants, pesticides, heavy metals and more.
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Products are tested for more than 272 substances banned by major athletic organizations and anti-doping associations.
Creatine monohydrate has never been placed on the banned substance list by the International Olympic Committee, so it remains legal and ethical to use. This has only driven its popularity higher, making it one of the most sought-after supplements for sports.
And because Pure Power Creatine Monohydrate is Certified for Sport®, you know it’s a product you can trust for clean ingredients.
For Optimal Benefits, Combine Creatine Monohydrate With Collagen and Magnesium
Some athletes find it helpful to supplement with collagen at the same time they take creatine monohydrate.
Collagen is a protein produced naturally in your body, and it plays an important role in the production of creatine.
Creatine monohydrate and collagen work synergistically to support muscle and connective tissue health, thereby enhancing overall athletic performance and recovery.
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What this means for you is the potential to achieve more effective training sessions and faster recovery.*
For a premier source of collagen, we recommend Collagen Complex in tablets or powder. Both forms contain all three types of collagen sourced from three of the finest sources: Marine Collagen Peptides, Organic Beef Bone Broth Concentrate and UC-ll® Undenatured Type II Chicken Collagen – from responsibly raised chickens.
Magnesium is also involved with creatine. The process in which creatine generates ATP to fuel your body and brain is facilitated by enzymes that require magnesium as a cofactor.
Essential for proper brain function, magnesium directly supports the energy metabolism necessary for optimal cognitive performance and overall brain health.
Plus, magnesium plays a crucial role in more than 300 enzymatic reactions in your body. It’s needed for muscle and nerve function, bone health, blood glucose support, immune function and more.
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Nearly 45% of the U.S. population doesn’t get enough magnesium, primarily due to insufficient consumption of dark leafy greens. Magnesium is found in the chlorophyll that gives plants their green color.
Because it is so essential for muscle, nerve and brain function, I recommend taking Magnesium Advanced along with Creatine Monohydrate.
Backed by expensive research, Magnesium Advanced easily penetrates cell membranes to provide unsurpassed support for healthy brain function, as well as powerful support for your entire body.
Get Your Edge on With Creatine Monohydrate
Whether you’re a sprinter aiming for a new personal best, a weightlifter pushing through plateaus or a casual exerciser seeking extra stamina, Pure Power Creatine Monohydrate provides a boost that can make a tangible difference.
With its straightforward mechanism and proven results, it has earned its place as a trusted ally to help you train harder, recover faster and perform at your very best.
With Creatine Monohydrate, you can potentially improve your strength, power and endurance.*
Imagine being able to increase your muscle mass… perform better… run faster… lift more weight… get better muscle pumps.
Get the most out of your workouts – and experience the strongest version of you – with Pure Power Creatine Monohydrate. Order your supply today.