Meet Super Trout: Researchers at MU are building fish that are lean, mean fighting machines ? thanks to a little boost from creatine.

From: Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) | Date: May 30, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Brent Frazee

May 30--Imagine going to your favorite trout stream and being able to tangle with a "super fish" -- a muscle-bound rainbow that has amazing strength and endurance.

Now imagine how that fish got that way -- by taking creatine, the same performance-enhancing supplement Mark McGwire used on the way to breaking baseball's then-single-season home-run record in 1998. A far-fetched scenario, you say? Not in the eyes of researchers at the Univers...