Your answer
Part of it is the form. Part of it is not the drink at all.
You said your stomach goes first. That is the most common way a hard day ends. The real answer has two halves.
The half no drink can fix
When you go hard, your body sends blood to your legs and your skin. It has to take that blood from somewhere. It takes it from your gut.
Up to 80%
of the blood flow to your gut can get pulled away during hard effort.
So your stomach slows down. What you drank just sits there.
That is a blood problem, not a drink problem. No drink fixes that half, ours included.
We say so because it is true, and because the other half is entirely about what you put in the bottle. That half we did build for.
The half you can change
Which form the mineral is in. Magnesium oxide is the cheap one. Your body takes in about 4% of it.
Magnesium glycinate costs more. Your body takes in about 19%.
4% vs 19%
how much your body actually absorbs. One study in a special patient group found no gap. We mention it because it exists.
The oxide you do not absorb stays in your gut. It acts like a laxative. That is where the bloat and the cramping come from.
You told us your stack has oxide in it. That is the single thing on this page most worth changing.
One more, and it runs backwards
You may have read that creatine pulls water into your muscle. It does the opposite. It pulls water into your gut.
Undissolved creatine sitting in your stomach is what causes the bloat people blame on creatine itself. Taken fully mixed into water, that does not happen.
Which is the whole reason this is a stick you dissolve and not a scoop you choke down.
So here is where we fit
We cannot do anything about the blood leaving your gut. Nobody can. What we did was pick the gentler form of all three minerals and put the creatine somewhere it dissolves before it reaches you.
3 of 3
sodium as citrate, potassium as citrate, magnesium as glycinate. Every one is the dearer form. That is the half of your stomach we can actually reach.
What is actually in the box
One stick, 12.85g, 20 per box. No stimulants, no sugar. Nothing on this page is a claim about it.
One stick a day through the block, and one on the morning of. That is the entire protocol.
The gentler form of all three, in one stick.
Sodium and potassium as citrate, magnesium as glycinate. Dissolved, not scooped.
Reserve one from the first runNothing is charged today. Your card is saved, not charged. The first run ships in October and you are charged when it does. Cancel any time before it ships and you pay nothing. The price you reserve at is the price you keep.
Blood flow away from the gut during exercise
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