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Life Extension Creatine Capsules Review — Why the Vitamin C?

Based in Fort Lauderdale, Life Extension has been a brand for over 35 years. They've got their own magazine, they sell dozens of products related to nutrition, and their site says many of their strategies ... Continue Reading

LEGION RECHARGE THUMBNAIL

Legion Recharge Creatine Review – Does It Help Recovery?

Legion is a Virginia-based supplement company with a big focus on natural ingredients; there are no artificial sweeteners, flavors, or colors in their products. We're fans of their pre-workout called ... Continue Reading

Doctor’s Best Creatine Review — Creapure® for Cheap?

Based in Irvine, California, Doctor’s Best was founded in 1990 and they offer more than 200 products. They’re pretty well known for their magnesium supplements and their natural herbs, but we wanted to ... Continue Reading

MET-Rx Advanced Creatine Blast — Is Creatine Ethyl Ester Better?

MET-Rx (pronounced "Met Rex") is a supplement company based in Boca Raton, Florida, and they focus a little less on bodybuilding and more on football, often sponsoring well-known NFL athletes. Their ... Continue Reading

Bulk Supplements Creatine Monohydrate Review — Go Big or Go Home

BulkSupplements.com is based in Henderson, Nevada, and they sell over 400 supplements including pretty niche offerings like citrulline and beet root powder. It's a pretty popular brand with folks who like ... Continue Reading

BN Labs Vegan Protein Review — What Are the Macros?

BN Labs is based in Irvine, California, and while they have a variety of products under different lines, including your standard whey protein powders and branched chain amino acids, a lot of their ... Continue Reading

Ghost Size Creatine Review — An Endurance-Boosting Supplement?

Ghost is a pretty interesting supplement company that prefers to call itself a “sports nutrition lifestyle brand,” and as such they sponsor both bodybuilders and DJs and their website includes music ... Continue Reading

Beast Creature Creatine Review — Why 5 Kinds of Creatine?

Beast Sports Nutrition is based in Boca Raton, Florida, and while their products focus on bodybuilding goals like muscle gain and fat loss, they sponsor a couple of powerlifters as well. The sell some ... Continue Reading

R+D Body CRE HD Creatine HCl Review — Cheap for HCl

Based in Manhattan Beach California, R+D Body’s goal is to help you “reach the next level” — that’s the slogan that’s all over their website — and to do that they offer a variety of supplements for ... Continue Reading

NOW Sports Kre-Alkalyn® Creatine Review — Why Buffer Your Creatine?

NOW Sports is a division of NOW Foods, a very well established Illinois-based company that was founded 50 years ago. The line has expanded to include a vast amount of products, including pet vitamins, ... Continue Reading

Crazy Muscle Three-Atine Review — Why 3 Kinds of Creatine?

Crazy Muscle is a supplement company that was founded in 2003 with a pretty clear focus on bodybuilding. Most of their products are about gaining muscle or cutting fat, but they take something of a ‘big ... Continue Reading

Athletic Xtreme German Creatine Review — The Purest Creatine?

Athletic Xtreme is a supplement company based in Boise, Idaho, and their product line features a large amount of fat burners and testosterone boosters in addition to your standard preworkouts and other ... Continue Reading

Body Fortress Creatine HCl Review — Why Hydrochloride?

Body Fortress' products are manufactured in upstate New York and they sell a variety of inexpensive workout supplements like amino acids, fat burners, preworkouts, and four kinds of protein powder. Today, ... Continue Reading

Optimum Nutrition Creatine 2500 Caps Review — Why Pills?

Optimum Nutrition is one of the biggest names in the supplement industry and you may already know about their protein powder, Gold Standard Whey, which is probably the most popular whey on the market. They ... Continue Reading

AI Sports Nutrition Micronized Creatine Review — Why So Cheap?

AI Sports Nutrition is based in North Canton, Ohio, and they sell a pretty wide variety of products from basic whey protein powder to some pretty unusual products like sports probiotics and growth hormone ... Continue Reading

CON-CRÈT Creatine HCl Review — What Does HCI Do?

Promera Sports is a Massachusetts-based supplement company that has a few products on offer, like pre-workouts and fat burners, but their best-known product is probably CON-CRÈT, their creatine ... Continue Reading

Universal Creatine Review — Where Is the Creatine From?

Based in New Brunswick in New Jersey, Universal Nutrition has been in the supplements business for over forty years. Perhaps best known for targeting their products at the bodybuilding community, we've ... Continue Reading

Cellucor Cor-Performance Creatine Review — Is Flavored Better?

Cellucor is a Texas-based sports nutrition company and we’ve tried quite a few of their products: their whey protein, their branched chain amino acid supplement, and their flagship pre-workout called ... Continue Reading

MusclePharm Core Series Creatine Review — How Pure Is It?

MusclePharm is a Denver-based nutrition company that’s pretty well-known for their inexpensive protein powder Combat Whey and their Combat Crunch protein bars, so named because MusclePharm ... Continue Reading

Genius Brand Creatine Review — What’s AstraGin®?

The Genius Brand, as the name suggests, focuses more on nootropics than other supplement companies, meaning they specialize in substances that may improve cognitive function. They sell about a dozen ... Continue Reading

BPI Sports Micronized Creatine Review — Quality Creatine for Cheap?

BPI Sports is a sports nutrition company based out of Hollywood, Florida, and they’re pretty well-known for their inexpensive protein powder and protein bars. But their product line is enormous: they sell ... Continue Reading

MET-Rx Creatine 4200 — What’s In These Pills?

MET-Rx (pronounced "met-rex") is a sports nutrition company based in Boca Raton in Florida, and compared to other supplement companies they seem to focus a little more on football than bodybuilding. Their ... Continue Reading

MuscleTech Platinum 100% Creatine Review — Simple and Straightforward?

MuscleTech is owned by Iovate Health Sciences in Ontario, Canada, which is the same company that owns popular supplement companies Six Star Pro Nutrition, StrongGirl, and Hydroxycut, among others. ... Continue Reading

Onnit Grass Fed Whey Isolate

Onnit’s Grass-Fed Whey Isolate Review — The Best Digesting Protein Powder?

Onnit is one of the fitness industry’s biggest giants even though their approach to wellness is somewhat unconventional. On the equipment side they’re perhaps best known for focusing on kettlebells, clubs, ... Continue Reading

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