ELECTROLYTE POWDER - AN OVERVIEW

HMB is a metabolite of your branched-chain amino acid leucine. About five% of the human body’s leucine is converted into HMB, which can be then converted during the liver to a precursor (generally known as beta-hydroxy-beta-methylglutaryl coenzyme A) necessary for cholesterol biosynthesis [61]. Some specialists hypothesize that skeletal muscle ma