Not really bad. More that it is useless. The two possibilities are
A. Glycoyamine supplementation elevates blood levels of
glycocyamine, where it inhibits
creatine transport to important tissues such as muscle and brain. Moreover, the enzymes necessary to convert
glycocyamine to create are not present in muscle tissue, and it cannot function as a phosphate donor, so basically you are depleting yourself of
creatine.
B. Second possiblity - much more likely. Glycoyamine is converted to
creatine in the liver. So
glycocyamine increases blood levels of
creatine. Which does not accomplish anything that you can't accomplish with
creatine mono supplementation. Elevating blood levels is not rate limiting,
creatine transport to muscle tissue is. In other words
glycocyamine poses no advantage whatsoever. However it does raise HCy. You can include betaine to combat this, sure. But you are combatting a problem you don't even need to be creating in the first place because
glycocyamine doesn't do anything more than
creatine anyway.
It's like if you put lead and mercury in a supplement and then put some heavy metal chelators in it as well to combat their toxic effects. It's great that you put the protectants in there. But this doesn't answer the question, why consume lead and mercury in the first place?
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