The best way to get the building blocks your body needs to make creatine is by eating meat and fat from animals like cows and sheep.

Your body makes its own creatine, and the only place you can get it from food is meat — plants don’t have any form of creatine your body can actually use.

Taking creatine supplements might tell your body to make less of its own creatine by turning down a key enzyme, kind of like turning off a faucet when you're already getting water from another source.