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Old 01-18-23, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy
That study was of Wistar rats:
https://janvier-labs.com/en/fiche_produit/wistar_rat/

and hence it is frequently used for studies of prostate cancer:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1289678/

OTOH, HMB is used in the treatment of men with prostate cancer who are on androgen deprivation therapy:
https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200...36.6_suppl.258

I couldn't find any human studies of the effect of HMB on a healthy prostate, though there are many websites which discuss the use of HMB by humans:
https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/in...cine/herbs/hmb
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/hmb#benefits

I've been using HMB daily since. November of '21 and haven't noticed any increase in nocturnal pee frequency or anything else other than much improved muscle recovery.
I couldn’t download the HMB paper, but it had no discernible mechanistic hypothesis, leading the journal editor in me to suspect an incidental finding reported with a post-hoc motivating question, and it was published in a small, regional journal. All in all, not worried at this point.
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