Supplements / Exploratory
HMB
Best for: Performance, Healthy aging
Dose & timing
- Dose
- 3 g daily, split into doses with meals.
- Timing
- Morning with food.
- Review
- Reassess after 4 to 8 weeks.
- Forms
- calcium hmb, free-acid hmb
What this supplement is for
- Best signal in untrained populations starting to lift, and in older adults with sarcopenia.
- In trained athletes the additional benefit over protein is usually small.
When the engine routes this to you
- If the strongest signal is in older-adult sarcopenia: studied for muscle mass in older adults.
What to look for in a product
- Preferred third-party verification: Informed Sport.
- Common contamination risks: Mislabeling / identity.
- Form: Calcium HMB is the most common form; free-acid HMB has marginal absorption advantage.
Where to get it
We’re building a curated list of third-party-tested products for HMB. Each one will meet our quality bar (preferred certifications, contamination screens) and carry an explicit affiliate disclosure.
Your experience
If you’ve tried HMB, you can log how it went. This stays on your device — only you see it.
We frame these as personal experience, not medical claims. Self-reported subjective outcomes are influenced by placebo, regression to the mean, and parallel lifestyle changes. We’ll never present ratings as equivalent to RCT evidence.
Evidence sources
- HMB for sarcopenia and untrained adults: review (reviewed 2026-04-30)
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