Originally Posted by scottfsmith

Good to see that, my own big increase makes more sense now. The study I found only had a small increase.

Thanks for pointing out NMN. I read up on it and will be keeping my eye on it .. too little data at this point for me to jump in though. Apparently the gains turn into losses if you stop taking it so you need to be 100% committed before jumping into that pool.

One more fuzzy data point on HMB: the main reason I decided to get on board is I am trying to lower my cholesterol to convince my doc I don't need a statin. I got re-tested last week and my cholesterol dropped by a third, low enough that my doc has green lighted me for no statin. I also changed my diet a lot so hard to say what helped, but my guess is 5-10% of the drop came from the HMB. Note that my levels had been more or less constant for many years so there clearly was something different going on.