Which Creatine?

And what's with the pink tax?

I posted an Instagram story about creatine last week and the DMs did not stop. Genuinely confused women, standing in supplement aisles, staring down a wall of options.

Here’s the bit nobody’s telling you: creatine has been a cheap, thirty-buck-a-bag staple for gym bros for decades. Then women started buying it too, and suddenly the pink tax gets added.

The plain monohydrate the gym bros have been using this whole time is still good. In actual fact it is the same powder used in huge bodies of clinical trials.

If you don’t read another word of this: go buy creatine monohydrate. Make sure it’s third-party tested, it’ll say so on the bag. Start at three grams a day. If there’s no bloating, no puffiness, nothing bothering you, bump up to five grams after a week or two and just stay there. Genuine gastric distress at three grams is rare. If it does happen, that’s when you move to HCl or micronized, not before.

Save yourself the extra forty bucks. The gym bros had it right the whole time.

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