What is MOAB?

What is MOAB?

Building muscle, increasing strength, and enhancing body composition isn’t easy. If it was, we’d all be walking around looking like Arnold in his heyday of the 70s.

Forging the ultimate physique requires a level of mental and physical fortitude that few can muster as it requires you to not only put in the work each and every day in the gym, but also sleep well, eat bountifully, and limit stress.

Added together, building muscle can seem like an almost insurmountable task, or one that’s just going to take years and years and years to achieve. In an effort to accelerate gains and build muscle faster, athletes often turn to natural muscle builders to enhance their progress.

Unfortunately, most of these so-called “muscle builders” are nothing more than overpriced placebo pills that do nothing for actually supporting muscle growth or athletic performance. Fed up with the current state of muscle builders in the industry, RedCon1 set out to create the best all natural muscle builder that harnesses the power of the real driver of muscle growth -- leucine.

This led to the creation of the ultimate all natural anabolic supplement. In fact, you could even call it the mother of all muscle builders!

What is MOAB?

MOAB is the Mother of all Builders -- as in muscle builders. Utilizing a combination of anabolic and anti-catabolic ingredients, MOAB limits muscle breakdown and supports muscle growth helping you achieve superior muscle building faster, the natural way.

MOAB is non-hormonal and does NOT require any post cycle therapy (PCT). It works by upregulating your body’s natural anabolic processes while also improving athletic performance and decreasing muscle breakdown. The end result is a supplement that not only helps you train hard, but recover faster, enabling you to train more frequently and build muscle faster.

Ingredients

HMB (3,000mg)

It’s pretty well known that leucine is the king of amino acids, responsible for activating the mTOR pathway in the body which drives muscle protein synthesis, a.k.a. muscle growth.

HMB (Beta-Hydroxy-Beta-Methylbutyrate Monohydrate) is the active metabolite of leucine that combats catabolism and reduces muscle protein breakdown.[1,2] Not only does HMB help indirectly support muscle growth by limiting its breakdown, other research shows that this potent leucine derivative is actually a powerful muscle builder and performance enhancer!

Studies conducted in trained athletes noted that supplementation with 3g of HMB (the same dose included in MOAB) increases muscle growth and strength. But there’s more. HMB supplementation at 3g per day also has been noted to significantly increase fat-free mass, aerobic peak power, aerobic capacity, and maximum speed all while reducing fat mass.[3] As if that’s not enough, HMB also reduces the amount of time needed for you to exert maximum power, meaning exert maximum amount of force more quickly than you could without HMB.[3,4]

HMB may also be an ideal body recomposition ingredient as it’s able to increase fat-free mass without increasing body mass, indicating that HMB may help you burn fat and build muscle at the same time![3]

HICA (1,000mg)

Also known as Leucic Acid, HICA (alpha hydroxyisocaproic acid) is another metabolite of Leucine that supports muscle growth and reduces muscle breakdown. In the body, when muscle cells sense leucine metabolites such as HICA or HMB, it signals to the muscle cell that it’s burning amino acids (which it doesn’t want to do) and initiates the anti-catabolic processes.

By supplementing with HICA, you’re telling your body to halt any muscle breakdown and engage the muscle building processes. Studies using HICA in trained athletes also demonstrate it can:

  • Increase Lean Mass[5]
  • Improve Performance[5]
  • Reduce Soreness[5]
  • Decrease Fat Mass[5]

Epicatechin (300mg)

Naturally occurring in cocoa extract, epicatechin is an incredibly intriguing flavonol that offers a wealth of benefits for athletes looking to increase muscle mass and improve body composition.

Various studies have shown that epicatchin can:

  • Increase strength and muscle growth[6,7]
  • Enhance nitric oxide production[9]
  • improve glucose tolerance[7]
  • Boost endurance[8]
  • Reduce fatigue[8]

Each of these actions separately contributes to helping you make bigger, better gains faster, but there’s a deeper underlying mechanism to epicatechin that really catapults your ability to build muscle to the next level -- myostatin inhibition.

What’s myostatin you ask?

Essentially, think of myostatin as your body’s natural muscle building “OFF” switch. Myostatin is a protein that is released by your muscles cells when they contract and serves as a muscle growth regulator. The archenemy of myostatin is follistatin which indirectly supports muscle growth by inhibiting myostatin signaling.

So, by inhibiting the protein that inhibits muscle growth you should experience greater gains, but there’s another problem. As you age, you levels of follistatin naturally decline, which is one of the reasons it’s harder to put on mass the older you get.

Research has shown that epicatechin can enhance muscle gains by increasing follistatin and decreasing myostatin.[10] A recent study from 2015 showed that after only five days of use, average follistatin levels of the group consuming epicatechin were approximately 2.5x greater than day one compared to subjects consuming placebo!

Basically, epicatechin helps you train harder and longer while also taking the “governor” chip off of your muscle building engine!

Astragin (50mg)

Developed by NuLive Science, AstraGin® is the patented combination of panax ginseng and astragalus membranaceus shown to enhance bioavailability and uptake of key performance-enhancing compounds such as citrulline, creatine, and beta alanine as well as muscle-building amino acids.[11]

Including the full 50mg dose of Astragin ensures that all of the key anabolic ingredients in MOAB are fully utilized by your muscles for maximum effectiveness and superior results.

    MOAB DROPS FRIDAY, JUNE 8!

    SIGN UP TO BE NOTIFIED

    References

    1. Wilkinson DJ, Hossain T, Hill DS, et al. Effects of leucine and its metabolite β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate on human skeletal muscle protein metabolism. The Journal of Physiology. 2013;591(11):2911-2923. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2013.253203.
    2. Nissen S, Sharp R, Ray M, et al. Effect of leucine metabolite beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate on muscle metabolism during resistance-exercise training. J Appl Physiol. 1996;81(5):2095-2104.
    3. Durkalec-Michalski K, Jeszka J, Podgórski T. The Effect of a 12-Week Beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) Supplementation on Highly-Trained Combat Sports Athletes: A Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Crossover Study. Nutrients. 2017;9(7):753. doi:10.3390/nu9070753.
    4. Durkalec-Michalski K, Jeszka J. The efficacy of a β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate supplementation on physical capacity, body composition and biochemical markers in elite rowers: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. 2015;12:31. doi:10.1186/s12970-015-0092-9.
    5. Mero AA, Ojala T, Hulmi JJ, Puurtinen R, Karila TAM, Seppälä T. Effects of alfa-hydroxy-isocaproic acid on body composition, DOMS and performance in athletes. J Int Soc Sports Nutr. 2010;7(1):1. doi:10.1186/1550-2783-7-1
    6. Gutierrez-Salmean G, Ciaraldi TP, Nogueira L, et al. Effects of (−)-epicatechin on molecular modulators of skeletal muscle growth and differentiation. The Journal of nutritional biochemistry. 2014;25(1):10.1016/j.jnutbio.2013.09.007. doi:10.1016/j.jnutbio.2013.09.007.
    7. Grassi, D; Short-term administration of dark chocolate is followed by a significant increase in insulin sensitivity and a decrease in blood pressure in healthy persons.; Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health, University of L’Aquila; 2005
    8. Nogueira, L., Ramirez-Sanchez, I., Perkins, G. A., Murphy, A., Taub, P. R., Ceballos, G., Villarreal, F. J., Hogan, M. C. and Malek, M. H. (2011), (–)-Epicatechin enhances fatigue resistance and oxidative capacity in mouse muscle. The Journal of Physiology, 589: 4615–4631. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2011.209924.
    9. Fraga CG, Litterio MC, Prince PD, Calabró V, Piotrkowski B, Galleano M. Cocoa flavanols: effects on vascular nitric oxide and blood pressure. Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition. 2011;48(1):63-67. doi:10.3164/jcbn.11-010FR.
    10. Barnett CF, Moreno-Ulloa A, Shiva S, et al. Pharmacokinetic, partial pharmacodynamic and initial safety analysis of (−)-Epicatechin in healthy volunteers. Food & function. 2015;6(3):824-833. doi:10.1039/c4fo00596a.
    11. AstraGin; NuLivScience; “Clinically Demonstrated to Significantly Increase the Absorption of Amino Acids, Peptides, Vitamins, and Other Nutrients in Intestinal Cells to enhance the Nutritional Value of Targeted functional Foods and Supplements”;