French scientist Michel Eugene Chevreul discovered creatine in 1835. Chevreul isolated a component of skeletal muscle - the voluntary muscle we use in exercise - and named it after the Greek work for flesh -Kreas.
He found the presence of muscular creatine was ten times more concentrated in in wild animal muscle than in zoo animal muscles. This observation linked creatine with effective muscular activity - the thought being that a wild tiger, for instance, could be expected to run and jump better than a captive tiger.
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