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Creatine
CARBOCRAFT is proud to be a leading South African supplier of one of the purest forms of creatine in the world today!
CREATINE - INDISPENSABLE SPORTS NUTRITION INGREDIENT AND HIGH ENERGY COMPOUND
Creatine is a natural compound that provides several benefits for athletes and non-athletes. It plays a vital role in energy production, particularly during high-intensity, short-duration activities such as weightlifting, sprinting, and jumping. Creatine is an indispensable sports supplement that enhances athletic performance and increases muscle strength and power. Creatine improves overall exercise capacity, increases muscle mass, reduces fatigue, and significantly accelerates recovery.
Creatine supplementation has been shown to increase the intramuscular levels of creatine phosphate, a high-energy compound used for rapid ATP (adenosine triphosphate) production during intense muscle contractions. This increased pool of creatine phosphate allows athletes to perform more repetitions, recover quicker between sets, and maintain high-intensity efforts for longer durations. Consequently, this can lead to greater gains in strength, muscle mass, and power in various athletic activities.
Creatine supplementation has been linked to improvements in cognitive performance. The brain also relies on ATP for energy, and studies have suggested that creatine supplementation can enhance memory, attention, and processing speed.
Creatine is composed of a nitrogenous organic acid that contains three main components: a methyl group, an amidino group, and a carboxyl group. Structurally, it is derived from amino acids, namely glycine, arginine, and methionine. Commercially, creatine is produced through chemical synthesis or extraction from natural sources. The primary method involves combining sarcosine (a derivative of glycine) with cyanamide (a nitrogen-containing compound) under controlled conditions to produce creatine. This synthetic process allows for mass production and ensures a standardized and pure form of creatine. Creatine is commonly available in the form of creatine monohydrate, which is a white, odourless, and tasteless powder. It is highly stable and soluble, making it easy to incorporate into various supplements, powders, capsules, and liquid formulas for convenient consumption by athletes and individuals seeking its benefits.
The effectiveness of creatine is directly tied to its purity. CARBOCRAFT’s creatine boasts a remarkable purity level of approximately 99.9%.
Our cutting-edge, industry-leading product provides a highly safe process for manufacturing ultra-pure creatine monohydrate, distributed globally to major sports nutrition supplement producers. It upholds the highest standards of quality, purity, and safety. The materials used in creatine production are entirely free from animal origin, making it 100% vegetarian and vegan friendly.
Creatine is vital for the body’s energy metabolism. When energy is needed, ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is converted to ADP (adenosine diphosphate). Although the body eventually regenerates ATP from ADP using energy from food, this process takes time, and muscle cells can store only enough ATP for a few seconds of high-intensity effort. Thus, creatine supplementation is crucial to maintain high levels of phosphocreatine.
Creatine isn’t exclusively for bodybuilders and fitness athletes. It is an ideal supplement for any sport requiring repeated bursts of maximum power, such as soccer, basketball, football, baseball, hockey, swimming, track and field, and more. To consistently perform at peak levels, the body needs sufficient creatine. Additionally, as we age, creatine serves as a beneficial anti-aging supplement. When combined with moderate resistance training, creatine helps slow the natural age-related decline in muscle mass and strength while also enhancing mental and cognitive functions.
- Our creatine is suitable for vegans and is kosher and halal certified.
- Our creatine is produced in a state-of-the-art FOOD-SAFE certified facility.
Pure Creatine Monohydrate for Functional Food
Vitality, Energy, and Well-Being: Our creatine significantly enriches modern food products and fortifies the diet of Vegans and Vegetarians.
- Product features & compelling advantages:
- Due to its important role in the energy metabolism of every cell (muscles, brain, heart, and immune cells), the natural substance creatine is vital for optimum human nutrition.
- An adequately high dosage and storage of creatine in a living organism, …
- increases both the performance and the endurance of muscles and the brain.
- is relevant for the proper function of the immune system.
- is beneficial for bone metabolism.
- strengthens the muscular system.
- improves the fitness (healthy aging).
- Each day about 1-3 grams of the body’s own natural creatine store is broken down and excreted. To maintain healthy nutrition, this gradual creatine depletion and energy deficiency needs to be replenished through:
- food (meat and fish)
- food supplements (high-purity creatine monohydrate in doses of up to 3g/day)
- endogenous synthesis from the three amino acids glycine, arginine, and methionine
- Vegans and vegetarians inherently have lower creatine levels (particularly “lacto-ovo” vegetarians), as plant-based foods do not contain any creatine. Therefore, vegans and vegetarians synthesize all or most of their daily creatine requirements, spending most of their methylation capacity. Creatine is produced in the body from the amino acids glycine, arginine, and methionine (appr. 40% of an average person’s daily methionine intake). Food containing creatine helps to spare arginine, glycine, and methionine.
- Successful creatine biosynthesis depends on the methylation with the key methyl donor methionine, and the methylation capacity in turn is dependent on the presence of vitamin B12, folate, riboflavin, and choline in the body. Vitamin B12 deficiency (common in vegetarians) is linked to an impairment in methionine production. This may lead to lower creatine biosynthesis.
- Supplementation with our creatine increases the creatine levels in vegetarians and vegans and therefore increases muscular and neuropsychological performance.
- Consumers look for a well-balanced diet and a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. The number of vegetarians, vegans, and flexitarians is increasing worldwide. There is a growing demand for vegetarian and vegan products internationally and the plant-based food market is expanding rapidly.
- Research has shown that vegans and vegetarians have a lower concentration of creatine. Foods enriched with our creatine can easily augment and improve the deficiently low creatine levels in this population demographic and contribute to a well-balanced diet.
- Our creatine can be incorporated into bars, cereals, pasta, bread, and dairy products, as well as added to processed meat and meat alternatives based on plant protein.
