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Q&A 428: Sex Before Exercise, Heavy Vs. Light Water, Jack Kruse's Leptin & Vitamin D Protocols, How To Lower Blood Glucose, Exercising With A Pacemaker & Much More!

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HMB Beta Hydroxy Beta Methyrate: A Supplement for Muscle Gain and Muscle Maintenance

HMB is going to get formed naturally when your body breaks down amino acids particularly the amino acid loosing and that has honestly influenced my decision to just continue to take ketone aminos rather than adding HMB into a strength training or a muscle gain type of protocol. When combined particularly with ATP with creatine it seems to work much much better but I mean if you're getting adequate amounts of amino acids particularly loosing it's questionable whether you actually need to supplement with extra HMB. If you are on a calorie restricted diet or restricting protein that HMB might be a way to do that with even fewer calories despite something like essential amino acids don't have that many calories in them anyways. It

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