How Does It Work?
According to Tonalin, the CLA supplement has undergone more than 600 studies in the past 25 years. The scientific studies have discovered 4 ways it may fight obesity:
- Reduce fat storage after eating
- Increase fat burning or metabolism
- Increase the speed fat is broken down in fat cells
- Reduce the number of fat cells in our bodies
According to Wikipedia, studies of CLA supplement in human diets show that it “tends to reduce body fat, particularly abdominal fat, improves serum lipid profiles, and decreases whole-body glucose uptake”.
A 2001 study conducted by Parexel of Norway verified this claim.
20 people participated in the 12-week study. They have normal body weight and did physical exercise in a gym for 90 minutes 3 times weekly. They consumed either placebo or a CLA supplement (0.6 grams) three times daily as two capsules.
This is what the scientists found:
Body fat, measured using near infrared light, was significantly reduced in the CLA group during the study, but not in the placebo group. No effects on body weight were observed.
Tolerability was good and similar in the two groups. Thus CLA reduces body fat but not body weight in healthy exercising humans of normal body weight.
Another 2001 study conducted by the Scandinavian Clinical Research AS in Norway reached a similar conclusion. This study monitored 47 obese individuals for 12 weeks. The scientists concluded:
In conclusion, we want to emphasize that the beneficial effects of CLA with regard to [body fat mass] and [lean body mass] are promising.
The number of subjects in this study was relatively small and may thus be a limiting factor in reaching general conclusions. However, at present, a dose of 3.4 g CLA/day for 12 weeks seems to be sufficient to reduce BFM significantly in overweight and obese humans.
A conclusion regarding the optimal dose of CLA and duration of treatment cannot be made on the basis of these limited data, but the current data provide a solid platform for future studies.
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