This muscle supplement could rewire the brain—and now scientists can deliver it

“Creatine is very crucial for energy-consuming cells in skeletal muscle throughout the body, but also in the brain and in the heart,” said Chin-Yi Chen, a research scientist at Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

Chen is part of a research team working to develop a technique that uses focused ultrasound to deliver creatine directly…