The consensus answer is “maybe/kinda.”
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) has been heavily promoted for many years now as being effective at reducing fat. Some really aggressive marketing efforts have been put into place that make it seem like the panacea of fat loss.
If this were true, wouldn’t this be a wildly fast-selling supplement that everyone would be raving about?
Of course it would.
The reason why it is not, is that although it does tend to work to at least some degree, when taken long-term…it seems really only effective in about half the people that use it, and, the results are not substantial enough for people to really bother.
Studies seem to be 50/50.
However, another added bonus is that CLA might also decrease inflammation linked to insulin resistance, diabetes and poor sex drive.
Since it seems to be safe and without side effects after years of taking it in some studies, it may be worth experimenting with for some folks who are prone to type 2 diabetes as an added boost to their efforts. It may be tailed more to these types of conditions than others, but there isn’t any solid evidence supporting this conjecture…it’s more just my personal opinion.
As most of you know, I support simply following a new lifestyle as referenced in my program above all else. I’m big on specific kinds of carefully chosen supplementation, especially for folks over 40 (and even much younger for some supplements) but it really has to boil down to how one lives their lives above all else. It’s the “supplement cure” notion, the idea that a pill will solve all our problems, that has become the selling cliche of the past century; causing people to spend endless amounts of money on the alleged quick-fix, over putting the time in to really tend to their own health first, in an effort to create the desired results.
Hence my program.
Love, Happiness, Health and Peace………….Tim
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