“As an elite endurance athlete I find that the ketone esters from HVMN work extremely well for recovery between hard efforts. While many athletes seem to be interested in their ability to improve performance by ingesting them during an event, it seems that the real magic is in the supplement's ability to activate mTOR and help with protein re-synthesis.
If you're an endurance athlete and aren't using this supplement for recovery then you are missing out.
HVMN is definitely easier to stomach than some of the other products out there and works just as well if not better.”
“I am using the ketone ester to support my attempt to maintain a keto-diet. I am using novamax blood ketone test strips to measure my ketone levels. When my first package of 3 esters arrived, I played around with doses and blood ketones measures over the course of one week. Described below is how I was able to find it useful: I started with .01 baseline blood ketone level as evidenced by the test strips while trying to obtain ketosis via the diet. I do intermittent fast from 9pm to 1ish, daily. I struggled to maintain the fast past 11am. I took my test prior to food and supplements and it was .02. To help stave off hunger, I would take a swig of the ester followed by a water chaser. My tests showed 2.3 blood ketones. I was able to fast through 1 pm and the ester would wear off after a couple of hours. I then proceeded with eating between 1pm and 9pm daily. Over the past two weeks I have been able to increase my baseline ketone level to .6 during times that the ester has cycled down, I believe that the esters worked proactively to increase my body’s ketone system resulting in an increased baseline ketone without supplements.
Summary: The esters work well to supress my appetite.
During ester cycle use my blood ketones rise by 1.7-2.2 with swig doses. I usually get 4 per bottle.
My baseline off the ester has risen enough for me to loose 10 lbs over 40 days, with a consistent loss weekly of 1.2 lbs. per week to date.
I have ordered more and will continue to supplement with it while working towards my goal weight.”
“I took one bottle each day I did my 100+ mile bike ride days. I rode Seattle to Portland in 2 days. On the second day, I actually took a second bottle (although it wasn't a full 2.2 fl oz due to shipping disaster reasons) and I found it hard to sustain energy when my heart rate was above 169 bpm. I kept feeling like the ketone's wanted to keep my HR at 149-154 to be in a some sweet aerobic zone. Anyway, the product worked as I suspected and I felt lasting energy for about 5 hours. I supplemented with gels to keep my calories on the carb/sugar side up so I wasn't starving. Overall, this is a good product and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to try this out - especially for bicycling/endurance event type sports. Lastly, they were nice enough to ship me a new pack of ketones free of charge due to the shipping disaster - so that was extremely nice! This stuff ain't cheap!”
“It did not work for me. I did do some research on the effects the ester had on me and it turned out I was not the only one. I won't purchase this again. But I did purchase one of the newest items and I can't wait to try it.”
“Upside- Take 2-3 servings to get thru a 24 hr fast. This is a huge assist and honestly as a 65 female warrior I do find fasting with ketones to be a lot less stressful (read cortisol!)
Also 1 serving before a fasting HIT workout (intense, heavy to failure with negatives) creates a successful experience. Max lifts up by 5#
Coginitive- no doubt, smarter!
Downside- way too expensive and I will need to decide how to distribute the meager rationing of 3/week
No way around the fact it just tastes awful.”
