Review Claims: CLA & Fish Oil Improve "Anabolic" Effects of Exercise - What Does the SuppVersity Sniff Test Say?

A bigger biceps and less body fat to cover your precious gains? At least for CLA this has in fact been observed in a human study (see figure...

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Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) Blunts Negative Side Effects of Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) W/out Hampering Its Effects on Body Fat Loss & the Expression of Obesity Genes

She already knew what scientists have recently discovered and now confirmed: You better stack CLA and DHA if you want lean and health offspr...

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A Higher Intake of CLA and Vaccenic Acid from Dairy, Beef, Veal and Lamp Could Prevent Subtle Weight Gain in Healthy Middle-Aged Individuals. Is 1.5g/day the Magic Number?

A dairy cow: Does her stomach hold the key to a leaner, healthier life or are CLA and vaccenic acid, the ruminant trans-fatty acids just as ...

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CLA Destroys Body Fat & Increases Endurance! But at Which Costs? It Almost Triples Liver & Doubles Spleen Weight and Increases Blood Glucose & Cholesterol Levels!

Image 1 (Zhu. 2012): The allegedly leaner mouse on the left has a certain gene defect due to which it developed both lipodystrophy (fat loss...

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CLA for Lean Gains! Trans-10, cis-12 Conjugated Linoleic acid, But Not the Cis-9 Isomer, Decreases De Novo Lipid Synthesis in Human(!) Adipocytes by More Than 50%

Image 1: Most commercially available products still have a mixture of the active 10,12 CLA and the inactive 9,11 CLA. If you read the first...

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CLA For Weight Loss: Safe, but Ineffective. Conjugated Linolic Acid Fails to Improve Body Composition or Lipid Profile in 8-Week Human Study

The early 2000s were the fat years: "Want to lose fat? Eat fat!" became the credo of more and more nutritional gurus,...

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Grass-Fed Beef: Does CLA make the difference? Probably Not.

You certainly have heard of the benefits of the meat of grass-fed, i.e. naturally nourished, cows. Well, although I do not want to question ...

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CLA: Good For Fat-Loss, Bad for Your Liver

Molecular structure of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA, HMDB v2.5 ) After being hyped as the next big thing in the weight-loss business, inter...

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