Creatine Monohydrate vs Ethyl Ester

Which one is better and why?

There are two types of Monohydrate your standard and your CreaPure the latter is superior quality and offers fewer of the known side effects Creatine produces ie bloating due to water retention extra celllularly as opposed to intracellar retention. It also requires a transport agent or insulin spike to transport it to your muscles. Creatine ethyl ester has far. Enter absorption at lower doses and dose not require a transport agent. Less bloating and much quicker saturation levels are attained ie no loading phase is required.

Monohydrate is cheaper but quality Monohydrate is hard to come by as most companies just lie about the purity of their Monohydrate, ethyl ester would be my choice

I started to change my view on creatine ethyl ester after reading this Study. I took it on/off for about a year (the evox v4) never being sure if it was doing much. That's just my experience. The theory behind creatine ethyl ester makes logical sense but according to that study done with 30 men for 7 weeks comparing creatine monohydrate, creatine ethyl ester, and a placebo found that monohydrate was better absorbed into muscles. 10g of CEE was taken per day after the loading phase.

The study concluded that creatine ethyl ester didn't show any benefit over monohydrate with increase in muscle strength or performance, and that much of the creatine ethyl ester was being degraded to useless creatinine.

Another Study indicated that CEE's half life is too short to effectively reach muscle cells in its ester form.

I'm not a fan of the bloating from monohydrate that Koe mentioned and for sure if you get monohydrate use a creapure, but personally I have not found CEE to be more effective at all. After quite a bit of looking I have not found any legitimate study to prove otherwise. Only here say and unverified marketing strategies. I'd gladly change my view if someone can post any evidence for CEE?