Performance / recovery supplement

Creatine monohydrate

Prepared by the ezGLP team. Sources last checked September 5, 2026.

Also known as Creatine

Routes represented in the knowledgebase: Oral.

Educational overview

Dietary supplement with evidence for repeated short-burst, high-intensity performance; this does not establish broad anti-aging benefit.

Category: Performance / recovery supplement
Routes represented: Oral
Storage context: Follow the product label; store in the original container away from excess heat and moisture.

Authoritative overview

Published literature

No validated PubMed or DOI link is currently curated for this entry.

Safety evidence

Common or reported: water-retention weight gain, nausea, diarrhea, cramping.

Long-term or disease-specific safety is not fully represented by short healthy-adult studies.

Safety evidence source

Interaction evidence

These are general, pairwise evidence notes. Green identifies the potential-synergy category, while Lv3/Lv2/Lv1 communicates evidence strength; it does not guarantee benefit or cancel a safety warning.

With Coenzyme Q10

Complementary evidenceLv3

A small randomized trial found improved peak oxygen uptake after a CoQ10 and creatine mixture in people with stable systolic heart failure.

Interaction evidence source

Summarised from published literature for reference only, with citations to the source. Evidence is graded as reported and is not a recommendation to combine, dose, or use any compound.

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