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Creatine HMB.

Strong evidence, strong doseTransparent Labs, verified Oct 2026Formula verified. Independently reviewed.Independent review. Not commissioned by Transparent Labs.

Creatine Monohydrate is the lead active here, studied most for strength. 22 human studies on Creatine Monohydrate back this formula, each one cited. Each serving carries 5,000 mg of Creatine Monohydrate, inside the range the published research used. Who it fits: for everyone, adults.

Clinically dosedFull label disclosure
5Active ingredientsWell studiedResearch base67Human studies
Creatine HMBVerified by IngredientMD
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The verdict
Strong evidence, strong dose
For everyone, adults.
How we verify

The brand submits the formula. We read the supplement facts panel and weigh dose, form and synergy against the clinical evidence. Labs test. IngredientMD verifies. The fee pays for review time, never for the outcome.

The formula
Calcium: Bone strengthExtensively studied
Vitamin D3: Bone strengthExtensively studied
Creatine Monohydrate: StrengthKey driver
myHMB: StrengthWell studied
BioPerine: Filling everyday nutrient gapsWell studied

How we read this product

Source: Supplement facts
Supplement Facts panel for Creatine HMB
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    We read the label.

    The panel on the left is the one we evaluated, line by line.

  2. 02
    Every active, separately.

    All 5 actives checked against the clinical evidence: dose, form, and what the research actually shows.

  3. 03
    Then the formula as a whole.

    Doses, ratios, and how the ingredients work together. That assessment is the verdict above: "Strong evidence, strong dose".

  4. 04
    Earned, not bought.

    The verdict is public and identical whether or not a brand pays. A formula that does not clear the bar gets nothing.

Read by the engine against 2.1 million data points from clinical trials, PubMed and more than a hundred vetted sources. No individual reviewer is named or implied.

The receipts

Well studied
Research base
67
Human studies
5000 mg
Creatine Monohydrate
200 mg
Calcium
5 g per serving sits inside the studied 2 g-5 g range
Creatine Monohydrate, Kreider et al. 2017 ISSN Position Stand (n=1,847 across meta-analyses)
1.5 g per serving sits inside the studied 1.5 g-3 g range
myHMB, Wu et al. 2015 J Nutr meta-analysis (n=9 RCTs); Nissen & Sharp 2003 J Nutr
5 mg per serving sits inside the studied 5 mg-10 mg range
BioPerine, Shoba 1998 2000% curcumin absorption boost

Cross-checked against 1,284 documented interactions for these actives.

Read the evidenceCalcium, the evidence →Vitamin D3, the evidence →Creatine Monohydrate, the evidence →myHMB, the evidence →BioPerine, the evidence →

Inside the formula

Calcium
13 studies
Bone strength
Extensively studied
Vitamin D3
20 studies
Bone strength
Extensively studied
Creatine Monohydrate
22 studies
Strength
Studied 2 g to 10 g a day
Key driver
myHMB
10 studies
Strength
Well studied
BioPerine
Filling everyday nutrient gaps
Studied 5 mg to 20 mg a day
Well studied
In context

The gap this formula speaks to.

Public health figures the engine matched to this formula's ingredients. Reported by their source, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

The people it speaks toFieldwork 2023

21.1% of the US population

aged 15 and over took part in sports, exercise, or recreation on an average day in 2023, in the American Time Use Survey.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
This formulaNHANES 2017-2018, published 2021

57.6%

During 2017 to 2018, 57.6% of US adults aged 20 and over reported using a dietary supplement in the past 30 days.

CDC National Center for Health Statistics
23 more
Daily use

59 to 66 days

was the median time it took adults to make a new daily health habit automatic across the studies a 2024 review pooled, with individuals ranging from 4 to 335 days.

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024
Creatine Monohydrate

Meta-analysis, 2017

In older adults doing resistance training, adding creatine increased lean tissue mass by about 1.37 kg and produced greater chest and leg press strength than training alone across 22 trials.

Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine
Vitamin D3

Meta-analysis, 2024

Across 10 trials in 318 athletes, vitamin D3 raised blood vitamin D by about 14.8 nmol/L and hinted at better muscle strength, though few trials leave that uncertain.

Frontiers in Nutrition
Creatine Monohydrate

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023

Across 8 randomized trials, creatine improved memory performance in healthy people, with the largest effect in adults aged 66 to 76.

Nutrition Reviews
Creatine Monohydrate

Systematic review, 2026

A comparison of protein, creatine and omega-3 found each supported muscle strength and endurance outcomes to a different degree alongside training.

Nutrients
Creatine Monohydrate

Randomised trial, 2025

In 40 healthy men and women, 33 days of creatine before a muscle-damaging workout sped up strength recovery, with less stiffness and fatigue, and less swelling in the women.

Nutrients
myHMB

Randomised trial, 2026

Adding calcium HMB to a whey drink raised the muscle-building response to feeding in older women and slowed muscle breakdown later on.

Nutrients
Creatine Monohydrate

Randomised trial, 2022

In 8 healthy adults taking 5 grams of creatine monohydrate daily for 14 days, muscle creatine content rose, while creatyl-L-leucine at the same dose produced no change.

International journal of sport nutrition
myHMB

Meta-analysis, 2025

Across 15 controlled trials in 712 adults, HMB raised testosterone (SMD 0.82) with no measurable change in cortisol, IGF-1 or growth hormone.

Frontiers in Nutrition
Vitamin D3

Randomised trial, 2025

Vitamin D3 supplementation changed the inflammatory protein CHI3L1 and oxidative stress markers in adults with a chronic demyelinating condition. These are markers, not clinical outcomes.

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
myHMB

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020

In young adults doing resistance training, HMB across 11 trials produced a small increase in total body mass but no detectable change in fat-free mass or strength.

Nutrients
myHMB

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2018

Across ten trials in healthy adults, HMB lowered post-exercise creatine kinase by about 61 U/L and lactate dehydrogenase by about 15 U/L, markers that rise with muscle damage after strenuous exercise.

Journal of the American College of Nutrition
Vitamin D3

Meta-analysis, 2024

Across 20 studies, daily vitamin D3 raised blood vitamin D levels by about 10.4 nmol/L more than the same dose of vitamin D2, roughly 40 percent more.

Advances in Nutrition
myHMB

Meta-analysis, 2026

Pooling 13 randomised trials and 561 adults aged 50 and over, HMB added to resistance training did not measurably change muscle mass (SMD 0.05), muscle strength (SMD 0.04) or fat mass.

Age and Ageing
Vitamin D3

Meta-analysis, 2014

Across 23 trials of 4,082 adults, vitamin D raised bone mineral density at the femoral neck by about 0.8%, with no measurable change at the spine, hip, or other sites.

Lancet

Population figures from public health data. Context for the category, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

What this formula earned

Every one of these is a fact the engine could ground.

Each line below was derived from this formula's own record at the time of verification. Nothing here was written by the brand, and nothing can be added that the evidence does not carry.

  • Studied in people22 human studies on Creatine Monohydrate back this formula, each one cited.
  • A mechanism that is settledHow Calcium and Vitamin D3 work is settled pharmacology.
  • Studied together, not just separatelyCalcium and Vitamin D3 have been studied together, not only separately.
  • Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2026.
  • Serving amount inside the studied rangeEach serving carries 5,000 mg of Creatine Monohydrate, inside the range the published research used.
  • A stated daily maintenance amountCreatine Monohydrate is here at a daily maintenance amount, which is what a daily supplement is for.
  • Why this formatIt is a powder, so the serving scales to the amount you want and mixes into something you already drink.
  • The exact form, describedThe label names its forms exactly: Calcium carbonate, Vitamin D3 in a carrier oil, lanolin-derived, Creatine monohydrate. The record says what each one is and what it suits.
  • Full label disclosureEvery ingredient on this label carries its own declared amount.
  • Where it comes from and how it is madeCalcium is made by mineral.
  • Positions this formula already qualifies forThis formula already qualifies for positions beyond the one it is sold into, on the evidence it carries.
  • A position nobody is holding yetSome of those positions are ones almost nobody is selling to yet.
  • Interaction screen on the recordEvery active on this label was screened against the interaction record, and the screen is published with it.
What the trials show

What the trials show about timing.

Time-to-effect windows the engine read from the trial record. Each is a window a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

  • Calciumwithin about one to six hours of a single doseMeasured within a day

    A randomised cross-over trial in ten women of mean age 69 gave a single 500 mg dose of calcium as citrate fasting, citrate with a meal, fortified juice or a dairy product meal, with blood drawn before and at 1, 2, 4 and 6 hours. Serum ionised and total calcium increased significantly from baseline over six hours, with the rise similar after fortified juice, delayed when citrate was taken with a meal and smaller after the dairy meal. A separate double-blind cross-over trial in 25 postmenopausal women measured parathyroid hormone and a bone resorption marker 12 hours after a single calcium dose. Ten participants is a small sample, and what moved was blood chemistry, not a sensation.

    Promising
  • Vitamin D3about 3 months of daily useBuilds with daily use

    In the trial record, blood vitamin D rises for about 3 months of daily vitamin D3 and then holds at a plateau, near 69 nmol/L at 1,000 IU a day, from a starting level near 41 nmol/L.

    Early
  • Creatine Monohydrateabout 4 weeks of daily useBuilds with daily use

    In the trial record, muscle creatine stores rise to a loaded level over about 4 weeks at 3 g daily, or about 1 week with a higher loading dose, and return toward baseline about 4 weeks after stopping.

    Strong

Windows measured in the cited trials. Context for how the active behaves over time, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

General timing

How each ingredient usually behaves over time.

Five ingredients, from each one's own page.

  • Calcium

    No acute sensation. Parathyroid hormone responds within hours, while bone density shifts over a year or more of steady intake, so this reads on a panel and a scan.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • Vitamin D3About six to twelve weeks

    25-hydroxyvitamin D climbs over roughly six to twelve weeks of daily dosing before it plateaus. It's a blood level you watch rather than a feeling.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • Creatine MonohydrateAbout two to four weeks

    Give it two to four weeks of daily use for muscle stores to fill. A higher first week reaches the same place in about five to seven days.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • myHMBAbout two to four weeks

    Plasma levels rise faster than with the calcium salt, inside about half an hour, while the muscle-preservation effect itself still builds over two to four weeks.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • BioPerine

    There is nothing to time on its own. Piperine changes how much of its partner compound reaches your blood, so the timeline you watch is that partner's.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

How each ingredient usually behaves over time, from its own page on IngredientMD. General timing for the ingredient, not a measurement of this product.

Chemical form

The same ingredient, carried differently.

What each form is, and where it fits in a formula. Measured findings carry the study that reported them.

  • Cholecalciferol (vitamin D3)

    The animal-sourced form of vitamin D, made in skin under UVB light and produced commercially from lanolin. Fat-soluble, so it travels with dietary fat and is stored in body fat.

    Fits
    Raising and holding vitamin D status, and the form most supplement trials use.
    Trade-off
    Being fat-soluble it accumulates with sustained high dosing, so intakes are set against the tolerable upper level rather than topped up freely.

    In a 12-week double-blind randomised controlled trial in 108 young women in urban Bangalore, most of whom began vitamin D-deficient, daily vitamin D3 at 400, 600 or 800 IU in a fortified wafer raised serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, parathyroid hormone fell over time, and effects on bone-turnover markers were modest and not dose specific. The 800 IU dose brought 65 percent of participants to sufficiency.

  • Creatine monohydrate

    Creatine crystallised with one water molecule per creatine molecule, roughly 88 percent creatine by mass, weakly soluble in cold water.

    Fits
    Straightforward powder or capsule dosing where cost per gram of delivered creatine and a long shelf record matter.
    Trade-off
    Grittiness and slow dissolution in cold liquid. Some people notice sediment at the bottom of the glass.

Descriptions of the form itself, read from the cited studies. Not a comparison between products and not a statement about any individual.

Format

Powder

It is a powder, so the serving scales to the amount you want and mixes into something you already drink.

Best forGram-scale actives: creatine, collagen, protein, electrolytes, beta-alanine.
From the same shelf

Studied alongside this brand's other formulas

Where two of this brand's products carry actives the literature has read together, the pairing and its basis are below. The evidence word is the corpus row's own confidence, never a score.

Grass-Fed Whey Protein + Creatine HMBEstablished

Active vitamin D switches on the calcium-binding proteins and channels in the gut lining that carry calcium across the intestinal wall, so the body absorbs far more of the calcium it takes in. With too little vitamin D, much of a calcium dose passes straight through unabsorbed.

Established biochemistry. No combination trial has tested this exact pairing.

Creatine HMB + BULK Pre-WorkoutEstablished

Creatine keeps the phosphocreatine pool topped up so muscles can rapidly regenerate ATP in the first seconds of a maximal effort, while beta-alanine raises muscle carnosine, the buffer that soaks up the acidity that builds as high-intensity work continues. They support different, consecutive stages of the same energy demand, which is the long-standing reason the two are stacked together.

Complementary energy systems. No combination trial has tested this exact pairing.

Recurring supply suggested

Because the effect builds and holds only with continued daily use, a steady recurring supply is the practical way to keep it going.

Questions shoppers ask

Is Creatine HMB independently verified?
Yes. IngredientMD reviewed this formula independently and verified it in Oct 2026. The verdict is earned, not bought: brands can't edit or purchase it.
What's in Creatine HMB?
Creatine HMB is built on Calcium, Vitamin D3, Creatine Monohydrate, myHMB, BioPerine. Each ingredient links to its own evidence page on IngredientMD.
Were ingredient interactions checked?
Yes. The combination was screened against 1,284 documented interactions for these actives in IngredientMD's interaction database.
Who is IngredientMD?
IngredientMD is an independent supplement-science platform. We analyze ingredients and formulas against clinical research, and we verify products only when they clear our bar. Labs run the tests. We review the results.
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