Shortly after the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, MuscleTech, a bodybuilding supplement company, dropped its sponsorship of Boeving for breaching the company's rules by discussing his steroid use.
He later sued MuscleTech after claiming that one of their over-the-counter supplements, Nitro-Tech, caused the positive test.
In 2003, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon filed a lawsuit in St. Louis against Hydroxycut's manufacturer, MuscleTech, stating that its marketing claims that Hydroxycut was "clinically proven" to be a "fat-burner" were false.