creatine is a molecule that is foundational to energy transformation in cells so creat goes into the mitochondria and um there it gets combined with ATP to become phosphocreatine and and then it leaves the mitochondrian and goes to places in the cell where energy is needed like a synapse or a ribosome that's trying to make some new proteins or something else it goes to places in the cell where energy is needed and it can be it can combine with ADP to be converted back into ATP so it's basically a phosphate shuttle creatine is a phosphate shuttle that is foundational to energy metabolism it is foundational to mitochondrial function