Below are some brief comments on creatine monohydrate vs. the 9,834,734,493 “other” forms all claiming to be superior. For more details byond the vid below, see The Creatine Graveyard
Enjoy! 
I briefly cover “side effects” of creatine. If you want more depth and detail, see the various creatine articles here on the site, and or read the full report I wrote up.
Check out my latest vid on whey: Isolates vs. Concentrates!
A new vid series I’m starting will cover whey. Obviously, articles here on the BrinkZone, such as The Whey It Is and others go into far more detail on the topic of whey, but here is part one of the vid series. Enjoy!
DHEA; The Most Underrated Supplement For Women?
Have you ever noticed if a supplement, drug, etc is tried in men, and fails to work, it’s written off as being ineffective? Although improving, it’s well known that men have been the standard subjects in research, with the results often being applied to women as an afterthought. In recent years, that situation has improved and women are viewed as the physiologically distinct people they are from men, and studies looking at specific effects in women – using women as the test subjects – has grown dramatically. That’s the good news at least. The bad news is, there’s still plenty of research out there done on men, being applied to women, sometimes to the detriment of women. Obviously, men and women are not so different that a great deal of research fails to be perfectly applicable to both sexes, but the fact remains a great deal of prior research was done looking at men, and the results, good or bad, applied to women more as an after thought.
Such is the case with DHEA in my view…
The Religion of Pre and Post Workout Nutrition.
Pre- and post-workout nutrition is all the rage these days, and for good reason. For some, however, it’s become more than a science—it’s become their religion, or perhaps just a place to focus their OCD-like tendencies. Regardless, people have taken the topic of pre- and post-workout nutrition to a level that is not justified by the research, or at least not confirmed by the research that currently exists.
Readers should realize I may have my membership card to the Bodybuilding Nutrition Guru Society torn up and thrown at me for what I am about to share in this article…
If you have not read the full article on this topic, you may want to do so after watching this vid. If you just want the quick “down and dirty” facts about this category of supplements, here’s the vid:
Folks, before you watch this understand , this comes with an “adult” rating , don’t watch it then moan to me that I swore in it.
If I have to read one more guy on some bodybuilding forum tell everybody how some over hyped bodybuilding supplement is going to make him “massive” in 4 weeks, I’ll pull my hair out, I made this video to let off steam at all the supplement B.S, there is doing the rounds right now.
Let me know if you enjoyed it in the comments section below, if there’s enough interest, I’ll make some more. If you have a Youtube account do me a solid and rate it for me, if you have a twitter account or facebook account then retweet this or Facebook it , thanks.
Bodybuilding Supplement Animated Video – Enjoy 
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CEE Converts to Creatinine and Should be Avoided
Not long ago I wrote a blog called the “Creatine Graveyard” where I took a look at the various “high tech” forms of creatine (see list in the Graveyard blog) with a specific focus on Creatine Ethyl Ester (CEE) as a study had just been published putting CEE in a less than positive light.
The study found found CEE to be inferior to creatine monohydrate (CM) and so, CEE was dumped into he graveyard along with a bunch of others. No big shock to yours truly, additional research appears to confirm CEE is a poor choice for a replacement for CM, and now we have this latest study that finds CEE converts to creatinine (which has no ergogenic effects), which = people using CEE are throwing their hard earned $$$ away as far as I am concerned.
This study concludes “creatine ethyl ester is a pronutrient for creatinine rather than creatine under all physiological conditions encountered during transit through the various tissues, thus no ergogenic effect is to be expected from supplementation.”
In other words, as I’ve been saying for a long time now , stop wasting your money…
XV International Symposium on Atherosclerosis.
(Readers Note: A condensed version of this article can be found in the “In The News” section of the Oct. 2009 issue of The Life Extension Magazine, p23.)
This Symposium – held triennially by the International Atherosclerosis Society – offers the world’s largest presentation of new research and clinical findings regarding Atherosclerosis. This important meeting was held June 14-18, 2009 in Boston MA. As Atherosclerosis is the underlying cause of both heart disease and stroke, which together account for more than half of all mortality and morbidity in developed societies, and is the number one killer of US citizens, making headway against this diseases would result in millions of lives saved. This scientific/medical meeting covered a wide range of topics, from detection, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular disease to the pathogenesis and biology of this disease as well as intervention, such as lifestyle and drug therapies, that may prevent it from developing in the first place.
