Comment · Wed, August 19, 2020 · ND Owner
Creatine capsules/tablets?
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TheOptimizzzer · 2 points
Have you guys ever looked at doing this?
I don’t know if my issue is common but I find taking a full dosage (3g-5g) everyday a chore using powder as anything over a couple grams gives me GI issues. Would be nice to see capsules or tablets 1-1.5g each to make dosing and absorption per dose better with the ability to just take 3-4 capsules throughout the day.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
The dose is just so high, and you have SO MANY vendors out there selling creatine for dirt cheap. It would be hard for us to compete. People like Optimum Nutrition probably do capsule runs of 10 million creatine caps at a time to get the marginal costs down. No way we would be able to compete with that. I have not tested ON's creatine, so don't take that as an endorsement. I am just saying it would be difficult for us to compete on price in that arena.
Now perhaps us bringing out a novel higher-bioavailabiity creatine in capsules/tablets might be something we do at some point. I do have some ideas on how to improve it that nobody has done. I think that is more an area where we could make things work. Sometimes a specific product is just too competitive, and brands are selling at break even or a loss to gain/keep market share. In those cases, I have to make the difficult decision to not waste our time and money on something that will just result in us scrapping a bunch of units later.