About the Authors

Mark Tarnopolsky

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tarnopol@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Andrew Zimmer

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Jeremy Paikin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Adeel Safdar

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Alissa Aboud

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Erin Pearce

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Brian Roy

Affiliation Department of Physical Education and Kinesiology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Timothy Doherty

Affiliations Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

Dr. Tarnopolsky has received an investigator initiated grant to evaluate the absorption characteristics of a new form of creatine (creatine ascorbate) as compared with creatine monohydrate from Avicena (2006). The current submitted study was completed in 2005 and Avicena did not contribute any money to the current study, but did supply product. Dr. Tarnopolsky has not received any personal money or sponsored talks for either Avicena or Pharmanutrients.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT AZ. Performed the experiments: AZ JP AS AA EP BR. Analyzed the data: MT AZ JP AS AA EP BR. Wrote the paper: MT AA EP TD.