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08/05/2025

🪫You wouldn’t let your iPhone run on 1%… so why let yourself?

🔋Creatine is like your body’s built-in battery backup. It helps recharge your phosphocreatine stores, which your cells use to create ATP — the main source of energy for every movement, thought, and heartbeat. 🫀

🫩When you’re low on creatine, your energy system taps out faster. That’s when fatigue hits hard — whether you’re running a marathon or running errands 🏃🏻‍♀️

⚡️But when you consistently take creatine, your muscles and brain have more stored energy to pull from. That means:

• Less fatigue during workouts
• Better recovery
• Improved mental clarity
• More consistent strength and endurance

💥I take 5g daily- and even during long runs or races- to help stay steady and strong, not burnt out.

🔌 Think of creatine like a charger for your whole system. Plug in, power up, and show up fully.

‼️SAMPLE PACKS available for purchase at iterate.life, link in bio, if you want to try our creatine but don’t want to commit to a full month🍬

03/04/2025

🧬 Creatine Kinase Activity & The Menstrual Cycle 🔍

This graph illustrates how creatine kinase activity (black line) fluctuates across the menstrual cycle, influenced by estrogen (red line) and progesterone (dashed line)—key hormones that impact metabolism, energy production, and recovery.

🔹 Follicular Phase (Days 1–14 – Menstruation to Ovulation)
✔ Estrogen rises, boosting creatine kinase activity and muscle recovery.
✔ The body favors carbohydrate oxidation, supporting high-intensity training.
✔ Best time to load creatine: Higher estrogen levels enhance creatine uptake, making this an optimal time to increase creatine intake (3-5g daily) for performance and energy benefits.

🔹 Luteal Phase (Days 15–28 – Post-Ovulation to Me**es)
✔ Progesterone rises, shifting metabolism towards fat oxidation.
✔ Glycogen storage is less efficient, and recovery may take longer.
✔ Best time to maintain creatine: Continue supplementation to counteract increased muscle breakdown, fatigue, and cognitive fog. Creatine also supports hydration, which is essential as progesterone can promote fluid retention.

💡 Why This Matters:

✔ Creatine supplementation is not just about muscle—it supports brain function, energy production, and long-term bone health, making it crucial for women throughout all phases.
✔ Strategically adjusting intake during the follicular phase for loading and the luteal phase for maintenance can optimize performance, recovery, and overall well-being.

💖At Iterate, we designed creatine gummies specifically for women, making it easy to stay consistent and get the benefits your body needs at every phase. 🍬💪

💌Check out our website iterate.life to learn more

02/04/2025

Happy Wednesday everyone 💖 the best investment you can make is in yourself- so why not start today? Fuel your strength, energy, and recovery with Iterate’s creatine gummies, designed for women and athletes. Tap the link in our bio to grab yours now to start investing in yourself ✨

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31/03/2025

💥 Creatine: A Scientifically Proven Edge for Performance

New research highlights the powerful impact of creatine on strength, endurance, and sport-specific performance. Figures 2-4 from Creatine Supplementation in Women’s Health demonstrate its benefits across multiple athletic domains:

📈 Figure 2 – Strength Performance:
Creatine supplementation significantly enhances maximal strength and muscular power output by improving phosphocreatine availability in muscle cells. This leads to greater force production, increased resistance to fatigue, and improved training adaptations in exercises like squats, deadlifts, and presses.

🏃‍♀️ Figure 3 – Exercise Performance:
Creatine improves high-intensity and endurance exercise capacity by accelerating ATP regeneration, buffering intramuscular acidosis, and enhancing muscle recovery. Athletes supplementing with creatine experience greater work output, sustained power, and improved time to exhaustion during repeated sprints, cycling, and resistance training.

⚡ Figure 4 – Sport Performance:
In sport-specific tasks, creatine supplementation supports faster sprint times, improved jump height, and enhanced agility. These adaptations are critical for explosive movements, rapid directional changes, and peak power output seen in sports like soccer, basketball, and track & field.

At Iterate, we’ve made creatine supplementation simple, effective, and delicious with our gummies—specially designed for female athletes and active women. 🍬✨

🔬 Backed by Science, Built for Performance.

Are you ready to optimize your strength, endurance, and recovery? Drop a ⚡ in the comments if you’re ready to elevate your game! Check out our website iterate.life to get your creatine & be on the way to enhanced power, delayed fatigue and optimized muscle efficiency💥

28/03/2025

28/03/2025

Hi everyone! My name is Kristin Meily, a doctor of physical therapy. I am part of the team here at Iterate. We are the official creatine used at the Speed Project LALV 2025. Our creatine is from Germany, making it the purist form of creatine monohydrate, and made in the USA. Iterate creates creatine gummies for women & athletes. Creatine is the most researched & well-established dietary supplement and it’s no wonder why! Creatine has so many benefits for muscles, our brain, mood, sleep and even skin. Stay tuned to see all the research and learn more about the benefits of supplementing with creatine. You’ll quickly realize that everyone should be taking it! 💖

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