Anyone know anything about Creatine ethyl-esther? what exactly is it and how does it differ from regular creatine monohydrate 
A lot of people report less gastric distress with CEE versus regular monohydrate. However, most gastric issues would likely stem from non-micronized monohydrate (the early monohydrate was like sand and gave many a person the runs). However, you can find regular micronized monohydrate everywhere these days and it's likely less expensive.
The claims about CEE being abosorbed multiple times better than monohydrate, etc. and therefore giving better results basically mean nothing. A major claim is that CEE is absorbed better at the gut level. Well, that's fine and dandy but the fact is that creatine absorption is limited at the cellular level, not the gut level. So just because you get more through the gut initially will mean squat in the end. Along those lines you only apparently need two or three grams of CEE compared to five grams monohydrate due to the fact that more of it makes it through the gut. This would ONLY make a difference though if it (CEE) worked out to be cheaper (on a per dose basis) than monohydrate. But it doesn't. And really the bottom line is that at some point your creatine stores will be completely saturated. Monohydrate does this just fine so I don't see the point in paying more for CEE when the end result will be the same.
