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Anyone using CLA

emmadonaldson95
Posts: 179 Member
Guys i really want to find someone who's been using CLA supplements to aid weightloss and muscle toning. If anyone has any experience that'd be fab.
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My coworker says "I've never seen it work with my friends or anyone else. One of those supps you can do without.
Because it's a fatty acid it may only lower your blood pressure not really aid in fatloss."0 -
From Examine.com, a site that offers unbiased reviews of available research studies for hundreds of supplements says this about CLA, "CLA has been investigated to be a fat burner and health promoting agent due to its effect on a molecular signalling receptor family named PPAR which is related to fat burning, steroid signalling, inflammation, and glucose/lipid metabolism. However, human studies on CLA are very unreliable and the overall effects seen with CLA are not overly potent as well as sometimes contradicting. CLA is a good research standard to investigated fatty acids and the PPAR system, but its usage as a supplement for personal goals is quite lacklustre.
You're money is better spent elsewhere. The full article as well as links to all the research studies is available here: http://examine.com/supplements/Conjugated+Linoleic+Acid/0 -
it can work but usually in very high doses ,, much more than what is recommended on the bottle and it just ends up being too expensive ..0
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Thanks everyone i think im going to just focus on my calorie count1
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I read that it worked on rats on lab tests.
But did not work on humans.
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I'm on it right now, and honestly, it doesn't seem to help with weight loss as much as it keeps me from being really sore after a heavy workout. I'm really only still on it because I spent the money, so I'm going to give it a full chance (take all of it) and see what happens.
I probably won't do it again unless I decide that my dream is to be a competition body builder.0 -
It works works in very high doses. My bottle says the dose is 2 pills in the morning and 1 at night. My sister took 12 a day for two weeks and lost 11 pounds. She went from 151 to 140. Eating 1500 cals a day and exercising for 30 minutes a day.0
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