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Michael O'Brien
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Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine (2011) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

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Man in a gray athletic shirt pours a scoop of creatine powder into a clear shaker bottle with water, preparing a fitness supplement at a table.
Creatine, (C4H9N3O2), a popular, legal, over-the-counter dietary supplement that athletes use during training and in preparation for competition. It is an amino acid that occurs naturally in the human body, where it is made in the liver, pancreas, and kidneys and stored mainly in muscle tissue. It…
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