BUILDING MUSCLE FOR BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES

This short 5-minute video explains how maintaining muscle tissue becomes harder with age, hospitalisation and conditions such as cancer, diabetes and COPD. Nutrition strategies such as dietary protein are key to prevent excessive muscle protein breakdown but sometimes they are not enough to restore the balance. β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB) is a metabolite of the essential amino acid leucine, which has a dual mechanism of action which supports muscle protein synthesis and also protects muscle protein from breakdown.