SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone: Review Claims: CLA & Fish Oil Improve "Anabolic" ...

SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone: Review Claims: CLA & Fish Oil Improve "Anabolic" ...: 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 figu...



Bottom line: I guess, you'd like to hear a supplement
recommendation now, right? Well, as far as ergogenic and/or anabolic
effects are concerned, CLA is unquestionably the more promising fatty
acid off the "two" (actually we are talking about four fatty acids,
here: DHA + EPA = fish oil and cis-9,trans-11 and trans-10,cis-12 CLA).
CLA's anti-PPAR-gamma
effect, which is probably responsible for the reductions in insulin
sensitivity and detoriations of the lipid metabolism that have been
observed in numerous studies (only trans-10,cis-12 CLA), is probably not
so much of a problem for lean, physically active people and the upside
of the PPAR-gamma blockade is a reduced rate of fat storage....



Ah, you see I am diverting to the fat loss effects again. And if we are
honest, the results of this review do actually only confirm that what
you've read here at the SuppVersity roughly 3 months ago the combination of CLA + DHA could turn out to be a safe and effective fat burner (learn more), if we would finally see adequately doses, long(er) term supplementation trials in humans.



As ar as the "anabolic" nature of either of them, i.e. EPA + DHA or
cis-9,trans-11 and trans-10,cis-12 CLA. The jury may still be out there,
but the verdict is - at least in the case of regular fish oil almost
certainly "not guilty", .. ah I mean, "not anabolic".



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