EP 117: Does Creatine Timing Actually Matter?

Does it actually matter when you take your creatine each day?

Short answer: no.

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Here's what actually matters instead.

One of the questions I get most often, right after "is creatine going to hurt me" (it won't), is about timing. Is there a magic time of day you have to take creatine for it to work? The honest answer is that timing doesn't matter nearly as much as consistency. What drives the benefit is keeping your creatine stores saturated, and that comes from taking it every single day, not from hitting a perfect window.

There's some early research on taking it right after a workout, but for most of us the real deciding factor is simply whether we remember to take it at all. So take it at breakfast, take it before bed, take it whenever it fits your life. Just take it daily, and if you keep forgetting, set an alarm on your phone.

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