Simple supplement could prevent muscle loss from weight-loss drugs

Tips for maintaining muscle while focusing on fat loss

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Simple supplement could prevent muscle loss from weight-loss drugs

A supplement of ketones may be the magic bullet that allows patients using weight-loss drugs to avoid the potentially adverse side-effect of a shrinking heart and skeletal muscle, according to a University of Alberta study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology that "fine-tunes" the popular therapy to protect lean muscle while shedding the same amount of fat.