Fitness

[Kami]

This is what I get for typing without looking shit up first - I was thinking of Casein, not creatine. I've never taken creatine and don't recall hearing joyous things about it either. Casein is described as (via bodybuilding.com)

"Casein proteins are pH sensitive and gel in the acidic environment of the stomach. As a result, it can take more than twice as long for caseins to be broken-down into their amino acid subcomponents than whey and other proteins. Because of their unique time-released qualities, caseins are aptly described as anti-catabolic or muscle-protecting proteins."

I was correct, just had the wrong name, hence the distinction between they "whey" being "faster" than the caseins to digest. The idea being that maybe you drink the whey based protein before you work out, or after, and then before you sleep or after you work out to help the muscle repair and protect itself blah blah blah you use the caseins.