Nitro Strength footing the bill at the time on supplements that just didn’t work they didn’t live up to the marketing hype in the claim and after going to medical school I started learning the science behind some of this stuff so my promise is we’re gonna break this down so let’s get straight into it which muscle building supplements actually work well the first one is creatine monohydrate I cannot emphasize this enough this single supplement has more research on it than pretty much every other thing on this list it’s probably one of the most proven organic supplements meaning someone that increases your performance and what creatine does is it actually is a type of energy that your muscles can use in this creatine phosphate pathway that helps increase your strength and your power output so you take creatine you’re gonna have more energy in your muscles and power output to lift heavier weights which is gonna lead to muscle growth so that’s one way that creating works we also found from the new research that creatine may directly stimulate the muscle building pathways in your body through mTOR signaling that leads to new muscle growth in protein synthesis so creatine might help you build muscle period not just by the proxy of it helping you get stronger and so there are certain people that are creatine responders and non-responders mean some people creatine works really well other people it doesn’t work quite as well so that’s up for you to kind of decide and figure out and creatine is also not necessarily safe for everyone if you have you know although creatine is not harmful on your kidneys if you do have some kind of kidney impairm