Creatine Pyruvate is that of a compound of bonded creatine to that of pyruvic acid. For more information on creatine and its functions within the energy cycle please refer to creatine. Pyruvic Acid can be bound to creatine to enhance the use of both compounds within the body for many further enhanced benefits. Pyruvate is actually the buffered form of pyruvic acid and is a product created in the body during the metabolism of carbohydrates and protein. Pyruvate is actually believed to help athletes lose weight, improve the metabolism, and helped increase endurance. Pyruvate is essential in the metabolic energy process. It’s the combination of energy system depletion (ATP-CP, lactic acid, aerobic) along with a lowering blood PH (acidity) that causes a person to crash during their training. In the absence of carbohydrates, you need to harness more energy yield by speeding up the breakdown of fats (lipolysis) into fatty acids, glycerol, and ketones. Through trial and error, it has been found that supplementing five to six grams of pyruvate promotes acetyl CoA accumulation, which in turn increases the formation of ketones to be used for energy. (By the way, something your anatomy and physiology book won’t tell you, ketones can be used by the brain and actually spare muscle tissue breakdown better than carbs do. It is also highly recommended to try supplementing with calcium pyruvate as a stand alone product asd apposed to creatine pyruvate. Calcium and perhaps even magnesium are depleted more readily in "plasma" hypertrophy than with contractile protein hypertrophy; therefore, the short-term use of large amounts of supplemental calcium are warranted. The pyruvate converts and is stored as pyruvic acid, which in turn tempers the catabolism of glycogen. This allows you to train harder yet protects against too fast a muscle breakdown or thyroid shutdown.