In addition, there are tons of substances that your body can synthesize itself, but would love more of it. Creatine for example can be made in the liver and kidney from L-arginine, glycine, and L-methioninein, but it takes work for your body to do it. It is much more efficient (something like 20X) to just take a creatine supplement and bring it to levels that will allow your body to maximize it's production of the energy molecule ATP (by resupplying a phosphate molecule).