05/31/2026
Should you be mixing Stronghold and Balance together? YES and here's why:
Tina Forese Belanger asked this question in a comment on another post, but it's such a good question I decided to make a dedicated post to help everyone.
Mixing Stronghold and Balance is a really smart combo, especially if you’re focused on muscle health, metabolic repair, or you’re on a GLP-1 or weight loss journey.
The reason is because Balance works at the meal level to slow down carb absorption, prevent blood sugar and insulin spikes, and support gut hormone production (like GLP-1, PYY, and CCK), which helps with satiety, fat burning, and overall metabolic healing. Balance is also providing VERY important nutrients requires for these elements, including nutrients your muscles need for muscle health.
Stronghold is designed to prevent muscle loss, plus build muscle, by directing nutrients and glucose into muscle cells, boosting anabolic signaling, and providing HMB (which is one of the strongest compounds for preserving muscle and preventing breakdown).
When you use them together, Balance helps keep your blood sugar and insulin stable after meals (important for muscle health), and provides the nutrients that Stronghold directs to the muscles (to ensure the nutrients you eat are actually used to build and protect muscle instead of being stored as fat).
This is also why we strongly recommend taking Stronghold with a high protein, high nutrient meal (plus Balance), so that it can maximize how much it directs to your muscles.
This combo is especially helpful for anyone losing weight, aging up, or wanting to avoid muscle loss from meds or dieting.
So for anyone using Stronghold, absolutely pair it with Balance!
