Creatine guides

A selection of guides to creatine, covering the questions people ask most often—from how much to take and when, to choosing a creatine and using it with electrolytes. Each guide points to the research behind its advice.

• Buying guideBest creatine in the UK: an honest buying guide for 2026What matters when you buy creatine in the UK: the form, the dose per scoop, flavour, price per serving and testing, with UK brands compared fairly.→
• Usage guideWhen to take creatine: before or after a workout, with food, and on rest daysThe research on creatine timing: before or after training, with or without food, rest days, evenings, and what matters more than the clock.→
• Dose guideHow much creatine per day: 3 to 5 g, loading, body weight and safetyThe daily creatine dose the research supports, whether to load, how body weight changes it, the dose for women, and what the safety studies show.→
• Creatine+Creatine and electrolytes: what they are, and why we put them in one scoopWhat creatine and electrolytes each are, why AMPD formulates them together, and exactly what is in a scoop of Creatine+.→