If you take creatine with a lot of sugar, your body holds onto more of it instead of peeing it out, compared to taking creatine by itself.

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Carbohydrate ingestion augments creatine retention during creatine feeding in humans.

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1996 Oct

When people took creatine with a lot of sugar, their bodies kept more creatine and spilled less in urine, compared to taking creatine alone — so the sugar helped the creatine stay in the body longer.

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Carbohydrate ingestion augments creatine retention during creatine feeding in humans.

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DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201X.1996.528300000.x

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