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.

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Plasma guanidino compounds are altered by oral creatine supplementation in healthy humans.

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The study shows that when people take creatine supplements, their bodies make less of it naturally, which means the body knows when it’s getting extra from outside sources. This supports the idea that we make creatine ourselves and can also get it from food, like meat.

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Your body makes creatine on its own, and you also get it from eating meat and fish — it’s not something you have to take as a supplement to have it in your body.

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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.

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