Zinc and Increased Muscle Mass

• The Combined Use of Hydroxymethylbutyrate and Branched-Chain Amino Acids to Counteract Uremic Sarcopenia.

  • 2026-02-01
  • RCT
  • Nutrients 18(3)
  • • Giulia Marrone
    • Manuela Di Lauro
    • Kevin Cornali
    • Sabri Shamsan Hassan
    • Gabriele D'Urso
    • Luca Di Marco
    • Sara Dominijanni
    • Roberto Palumbo
    • Anna Paola Mitterhofer
    • Annalisa Noce

  • PubMed: 41683304
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu18030483

  3 Insights on

  • Increased Muscle Mass

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  FFSMP supplementation resulted in significant increases in QRFT and in fat-free mass percentage.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  10 g/day; two sachets