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 installment of the SuppVersity Student Spotlight , and/or listened to our now famous SuppVersity student, Duong, on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio, yesterday , you'll know that Duong's approach to intermittent fasting delivered impressive muscle gains, even on a caloric deficit! But what if you are lean already? Regardless of whether or not you fast intermittently, eating a hypocaloric diet (i.e. eating less calories than you need) does not appear to be the ideal strategy to "bulk", does it? Well, a group of international scientists from Denmark, the US, France and Germany recently found that CLA, or Trans-10, cis-12 Conjugated Linoleic Acid, to be precise, could possibly ward off fat gains by decreasing the amount of fat that is produced and getting stored in your adipose ...