I jumped on the CLA bandwagon when it initially became all the rage. After doing a lot of reading though, it seems as if it simply does not hold up to initial claims. The "supposed" effective dose is also quite high, making it relatively expensive to take.
To quote Lyle McDonald--- "Time to come to terms with it, if you haven't already: add CLA to the list of stuff that works great on rats/mice and does jack crap for humans".
Also from Lyle--- "If CLA does anything in humans it will likely have to be mega-dosed to achieve anything even approximating what occurs in mice/rats (who respond between 3-7 times better than humans because of a difference in metabolic rate). So you either have to take 3-7 times as much (at a monstrous cost) or wait 3-7 times as long for the effects to become noticeable."
