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Creatine and Beta-Alanine: study protocols

8 study groups took Creatine together with Beta-Alanine. These are the doses the studies gave. They are not a recommendation.

Creatine: what the research found →

Dose per serving from research: Creatine

7 study groups in 5 studies say how much Creatine participants took a day.

These are the doses the studies gave. They are not a recommendation.

Most common: 1 g to 2.5 g, 57% of 7 study groups.

Daily doseStudy groups
1 g or less
1
1 g to 2.5 g
4
2.5 g to 5 g
1
5 g to 10 g
1

Dose per serving from research: Beta-Alanine

7 study groups in 5 studies say how much Beta-Alanine participants took a day.

These are the doses the studies gave. They are not a recommendation.

Most common: 2.5 g to 5 g, 86% of 7 study groups.

Daily doseStudy groups
2.5 g to 5 g
6
5 g to 10 g
1

Commonly used together

5 of 8 study groups took Creatine and Beta-Alanine with something else, but nothing that 3 or more different studies gave.

8 study groups

Study
Effects of Four Weeks of Beta-Alanine Supplementation Combined with One Week of Creatine Loading on Physical and Cognitive Performance in Military Personnel
2022 · BA + Cr · Recreationally active male soldiers aged 19–25 years
300 mg/kg6.4 g4 weeks10
The effects of beta alanine plus creatine administration on performance during repeated bouts of supramaximal exercise in sedentary men
2015 · beta-alanine plus creatine (β-ALA+Cr) · Untrained healthy men aged 20–22 years
10 g3.2 g4 weeks—
Effects of ingesting a pre-workout dietary supplement with and without synephrine for 8 weeks on training adaptations in resistance-trained males
2017 · PWS · Apparently healthy, resistance-trained males; mean age about 21 years
2 g3 g8 weeks27
Effects of ingesting a pre-workout dietary supplement with and without synephrine for 8 weeks on training adaptations in resistance-trained males
2017 · PWS + S · Apparently healthy, resistance-trained males; mean age about 22 years
2 g3 g8 weeks26
Effects of acute ingestion of a pre-workout dietary supplement with and without p-synephrine on resting energy expenditure, cognitive function and exercise performance
2017 · PWS · Resistance-trained healthy adults; 20 men and 5 women, mean age 21.7 years
2 g3 g1 day25
Effects of acute ingestion of a pre-workout dietary supplement with and without p-synephrine on resting energy expenditure, cognitive function and exercise performance
2017 · PWS + S · Resistance-trained healthy adults; 20 men and 5 women, mean age 21.7 years
2 g3 g1 day25
Changing to a vegetarian diet reduces the body creatine pool in omnivorous women, but appears not to affect carnitine and carnosine homeostasis: a randomised trial
2018 · Veg+Suppl · Omnivorous women assigned to a vegetarian diet
1 g—26 weeks15
The effect of multi-ingredient intra- versus extra-cellular buffering supplementation combined with branched-chain amino acids and creatine on exercise-induced ammonia blood concentration and aerobic capacity in taekwondo athletes
2021 · BA (intracellular buffering) · Elite taekwondo athletes aged 18–35 years, male and female, healthy and highly trained
2.8 g5 g8 weeks9
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