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If we go by the results of this latest meta-analysis, athletes and experienced gymrats don't benefit from HMB supplements. Roughly 4 years ago, HMB, which, once hailed as "as potent as a weak androgenic steroid", had been forgotten by most fitness enthusiasts, when - all of a sudden - a single study by Wilson et al. put it back into the limelight. In fact, there's hardly a study that has been so heavily debated in the fitness geek community as Wilson's infamous HMB paper with the steroid-like gains from March 2014 (Wilson 2014). Since Wilson's paper has (as of now) not been retracted, it does seem odd that a group of scientists from Chile and Spain write in the conclusion of a new meta-analysis that's about to be published in the  Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport  (Sanchez-Martinez 2017) that they found "no effect of HMB supplementation on strength and body composition in trained and competitive athletes" (Sanchez-Marrinez 2017)... u...

In my comparison of leucine and HMB  I have hinted at the unique anti-catabolic affects of HMB, already. Now, the accumulating evidence appears to suggest that the prevention of muscle damage is in fact the main pathway by which HMB exerts its ergogenic effects. Free acid (or free form) HMB is one of the supplements I get the most questions about. It is yet by no means one of the best-researched supplements and another good example of how good write-ups sell supplements. Somehow it all reminds me of the not so good "old days", when HMB was still believed to be "as potent as a weak anabolic" until everyone had trialled it and realized that there were no steroid-like gains... Well, enough of the ranting. Let's get to the actual reason I am talking about HMB. Scientists from the Federal University of Parana report in their latest paper that the good old calcium-bound form of HMB works. That wouldn't be important in view of the fact that there are at least...

HMB-FA could be for ladies, too - or don't you want to look good naked, girls? First, it was "as potent as oxandrolone", then it was "disappointing", "dysfunctional" and "tasted like crap"... you know what I am talking about? Well, then you've been around in the bodybuilding and fitness community for some time. And since you are here, at the SuppVersity , your goto source for the latest information from the realms of nutrition, exercise and supplementation science, you will probably be aware, that HMB, the molecule, I have obviously been referring to in the first sentences of this article, is about to make a comback - in liquid form and without the calcium bond in calcium β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate the studies that were presented at the last ISSN conference ( read previous article) caused quite sensation in the fitness community. Now, more than 6 months later, I got a message from Jacob Wilson that he and his colleagues have ...

This is Ernestine Shepherd; and while Ernestine is not one of the study subjects she would qualify. After all, she is 74. And she is also something else: An example of the anti-aging effects of life-long exercise and sensible nutrition. HMB has gotten back to the limelight lately. Many scientists are currently working on advanced preparations with increased or faster absorption rates. A soon-to-be-published study in the Journal of Experimental Gerontology does however suggest that the latter may - at least for some basic and certainly non-negligible effects in the aging muscle and adipose tissue - not even be necessary. For these purposes the good old (and disgustingly tasting) CaHMB powder us Europeans can get for cheap at every street corner appears tow work quite fine. In a randomized controlled study, the Jeffrey R. Strout and his colleages from the University of Central, the University of North Carolina , the Georgia Southern University , the United States Sports Acadamy, a...