Alright, the morning definitely got away from me, but on to Krea-Genic/double buffered creatine!

I'll assume that everyone has a basic knowledge of creatine monohydrate - what it does, how it works, etc. (if not, then I can definitely put some information on that up here too). One of the biggest drawbacks to Creatine Monohydrate powder is in its stability. It breaks down very easily into creatinine (the waste by-product of creatine), which has no benefit to the body/muscles - it's simply excreted. So for example, if you put creatine monohydrate into a drink/shake and leave it for a few hours, you'll get veyr minimal creatine benefits from that shake. Likewise in your body, creatine monohdyrate gets broken down in transport to your muscles - first from the gastric acid in your stomach, and then secondly during transport in the blood. (obviously not all of the creatine is broken down or no one would see any benefits - but around 33% is broken down to creatinine throughout the transport process to the muscles).

Several years ago, Kre-Alkalyn, and other single-buffered creatines that followed, were introduced. Basically the creatine molecules had an alkaline buffer that protected the creatine from the gastric acid in the stomach, and reduced the amount of creatine breakdown that occurred before the creatine reached the muscle.

Krea-Genic is a double buffered creatine. So what this means is that there are two buffers (ie. two protective 'shields') - the first buffer is sodium carbonate to protect the creatine from gastric acid breakdown in the stomach, and the second buffer is sodium bicarbonate to protect the creatine from breakdown in the blood. This not only ensures that the maximum amount of intact creatine reaches your muscles, but Krea-Genic was developed with sodium-based buffers (which is a natural absorption booster) for quicker absorption.

There's actually a good visual of this on main page of the Krea-Genic site, as well as some other useful information throughout the site that I may not have covered here. [url]http://www.krea-genic.com/english/index.php[/url]

I hope that helped answer your question, and gives a good overview of what Krea-Genic is and why it's better than creatine monohydrate and single buffered creatine! Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions or would like more information on anything I mentioned here!

And just a side note on all the great and detailed logs being done on the Krea-Genic - I haven't commented on any of them, and that's been on purpose. We wanted these reviews to be completely unbiased and untouched from us. We sent the volunteers the product, gave some general outlines of some information we'd like to see - just so everyone would have a consistent format of feedback - but other than that, we want it to be a clean review. So it's not lack of interest on our part, but a huge thank you to the reviewers, and I hope you'll all continue to give support and feedback to the reviews/logs!