The Hidden Imbalance That Quietly
Eats Away At Your Muscles
The Hidden Imbalance That Quietly Eats Away At Your Muscles
Did you know your body breaks down and rebuilds up to ¾ pound of muscle every day?22 It’s true! When you’re young, muscle breakdown and muscle rebuilding are balanced. But as you get older, the scale tips towards muscle breakdown. That means you lose the same amount of muscle each day. But you make less and less.23
Starting at 30, this imbalance means you lose muscle each year. In fact, by the time you’re 60, you lose nearly one-third of your muscle mass! Dileucine can help tip the scale in your favor by building more muscle. But for the best results, you also need to address muscle breakdown. And that’s where a nutrient called HMB can help.
You see, while dileucine cranks up the muscle-building switch mTOR… HMB has the rare ability to “turn down” your body’s #1 muscle breakdown switch – a substance known as ubiquitin.24,25 In fact, one study found HMB reduces muscle breakdown by 57%.26 That’s more than half!
What does that mean in the real world? In the same study, researchers gave older adults on bed rest HMB or a placebo. In just 10 days, the placebo group lost four pounds of muscle. But the HMB group didn’t lose any muscle at all.27 Those results are amazing. But I wasn’t surprised.