Anvil Nutrition - Creatine Monohydrate
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5g creatine monohydrate per serving. Other Ingredients: None. Creatine monohydrate is the most extensively studied and clinically effective form of creatine, and muscle stores are generally maintained on 3 to 5g a day, which is why this is 5g and nothing else. Micronized so it dissolves, and unflavored so you can add it to anything.
| Ingredient | Per Serving |
|---|---|
| Creatine Monohydrate Micronized for improved solubility | 5,000 mg |
Creatine is stored in muscle tissue as phosphocreatine. During high-intensity effort, your muscles burn through ATP (the energy currency for contraction) faster than your body can regenerate it. Phosphocreatine donates its phosphate group to regenerate ATP, which means more available energy during sets, more total work capacity per session, and faster recovery between efforts.
This is not a stimulant effect. Creatine works through saturation, not acute dosing. You take it daily, intramuscular stores build over time, and the performance benefit is there when you need it during training.
5g a day sits at the top of the 3 to 5g range the ISSN position stand says will generally maintain your muscle creatine stores once they're full. The same position stand reports that short and long-term creatine supplementation has been safe and well tolerated in healthy individuals and that it can improve your exercise performance.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of creatine supplementation and strength performance found significant improvements in lower limb strength across multiple study populations. A separate meta-analysis of resistance training in older adults (22 trials, 721 participants, mean age 57 to 70) found greater gains in lean tissue mass and in chest press and leg press strength with creatine than with placebo.
View Research: ISSN Position Stand on Creatine (Kreider et al. 2017) →View Research: Creatine & Strength Performance Meta-Analysis (Lanhers et al. 2015) →
View Research: Creatine & Lean Tissue in Older Adults Meta-Analysis (Chilibeck et al. 2017) →
Creatine monohydrate is the form used in the overwhelming majority of published research. The ISSN position stand specifically notes that creatine monohydrate is the most studied and most effective form of creatine available. You'll see other forms like creatine HCL or buffered creatine marketed with claims of better absorption or reduced bloating, and creatine ethyl ester gets pitched the same way, but none of them has been shown to be superior to monohydrate in peer-reviewed research.
If a form doesn't have the evidence, it doesn't go in the product. That's the standard.
Micronizing reduces the particle size of creatine monohydrate, which improves how easily it dissolves in liquid. It's the same molecule, the same dose, the same mechanism. It just mixes better so you're not drinking grit at the bottom of your glass.
One scoop (5g) a day, mixed into any liquid. Unflavored, no taste. Taken daily, your muscle stores build up over the first few weeks and stay saturated as long as you keep taking it.
Any time of day. Creatine works through saturation, not timing. Consistency matters more than when you take it.
Take it on rest days too. Creatine maintains intramuscular stores through daily intake, not just on training days.
The label says THIRD PARTY TESTED, and the QR code on it brings you here. Once a lot's results come back from the lab, we post them under that lot number in this section.
Manufactured in a GMP certified facility for Anvil Nutrition LLC. Third-party batch tested for purity and potency. Results for each lot are posted under the Third-Party Batch Testing section above.
