Can Caffeine be Consumed While Using Creatine?
Caffeine can both help and harm your creatine results, depending on the type of results you are looking for. For example, stacking caffeine with creatine may help the performance enhancing effects of creatine. If your goals are to run faster, for example, using caffeine combined with creatine may help you to achieve that result best. However, since caffeine is a diuretic, and it will drain water out of your system. Good results using creatine are dependent on drinking enough water. That said, caffeine should not be consumed very frequently, or more water should be consumed to account for the water being drained from your body through caffeine use. However, caffeine does not directly affect the cell volumizing effect of creatine.