[00:00] If you're taking creatine, you might want to stop and listen because it turns out that creatine can contain two impurities that are bad for your health, dihydrotriazine and dicyandiamide. Now, this is important because this is structurally related to chemical carcinogens in the body.
[00:13] Research actually shows that creatine made in China can contain up to 5.4% dicyandiamide. Also, creatine sourced in China can contain up to 0.9% dihydrotriazine, which is also an impurity
[00:25] that you don't really want to ingest in your body. Now, when it comes to creatine, most people are starting out at two and a half grams on the low end, all the way up to 20 grams per day. But if the creatine raw material that you're taking contains these two impurities that are known to
[00:37] be harmful for your health, as well as solvents, potentially heavy metals, arsenic, lead, and mercury that can be found, particularly in creatine sourced in China, that's not a good thing. So you want to be looking out for the creatine raw material that's made in Germany. And there's
[00:50] two ways to discover this. When you look at your label, when you take creatine, you're going to see one of two logos, CreaPure or CreaVitalis, both of which are raw materials produced end-to-end in Germany, washed with water, so there's no impurities, there's no solvents. It's a really
[01:05] clean product that is very low in the two problematic impurities. That's why source really matters. Now, it's important to acknowledge that most supplement companies are packaging raw materials either made in China or Germany. So you're going to have to reach out to your go-to
[01:19] supplement company and ensure that they are offering to you the creatine that is synthesized and produced end-to-end in Germany. And that's why at MyoSense, we only use the CreaPure or the CreaVitalis, which is a micronized creatine. It's easier on the gut. It's one of the cleanest
[01:33] products in the world. If you want to learn a little bit more about this, type creatine in the comment section below, and I'll send you a full deep dive into how creatine is made and the two impurities that you should look out for.