Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Alright you Amazon fitness nuts, I'm going to start this review with a bit of a disclaimer. CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) is a bit of an anomaly within the supplement community. The research behind it isn't all there, and many studies done have been on animals not humans, so the ability to translate that in terms of our genetics is a little tough. I use this supplement anyway and will continue to use it; below is why. If you want to get right to what I think of the product, skip ahead to where it says "ACTUAL PRODUCT". CLA is a natural fatty acid that is found in dairy products and red meats. So while yes, you can find it without having to supplement it, supplementing with CLA increases the availability. This is especially helpful because in order to maximize the benefits of CLA, which I will get to in a moment, 3-6 grams have to be taken daily. Now personally I think 6 is overkill, and three of these puppies once a day for a 3 g total will last over 3 months which is fantastic. Even if you decided to take four a day, that's still a much longer time-span than most bottles will run. Studies on CLA from the sources I myself trust have shown that over long-term, it reduces body fat percentage and prevents weight gain. It also preserves muscle mass by limiting the catabolic effect on muscle proteins AKA the body won't break down muscle tissue as easily for a source of energy. Sounds pretty awesome right? Well let's relax for a moment. The effects aren't anything crazy CLA is no miracle pill, but given enough time that's still something. Remember above where I said I take CLA and will continue to do so? Here's why. CLA ties in very well with my style of weight lifting and nutrition. I am a "clean bulker". This means I am constantly adding slow, lean muscle mass while trying to keep my body fat percentage relatively constant or in small fluctuation. It's much slower, but I look good all year-round instead of the side effects that come from a traditional bulk. If CLA is going to have any benefit whatsoever to slowly reduce body fat, preventing weight gain, and minimizing the damage to my muscles am I going to take it? Uh, yeah! Plus two, if what I am doing is working, why fix it? Frankly, and let's assume worst case here, I'm paying for the placebo effect. ACTUAL PRODUCT: BulkSupplements, first off, probably has the best deal on CLA you will find on the internet let alone Amazon. 300 soft-gels for 25 bucks is a fantastic deal. Many bottles are about that price point for 30 days worth of pills so ordering in bulk quantity is the way to go. Also, Amazon Prime with these guys? Can this get any better? I got my product incredible quickly so a than you to both Amazon and BulkSupplements for getting me a whopping amount of CLA in a jiffy! The soft-gels arrived in a silver seal bag just like the pictures on their other products with the nutrition information and directions right on the front. BulkSupplements has pretty minimalist packaging but you know what who cares. I don't need it to be all flashy and cool to look at I need the product to be good. The soft-gels were shipped very quickly because of Amazon Prime but they did a great job packaging them. There's no need to go nuts really the soft-gels aren't anything that will suffer damage in transit really unless someone decides to curb stomp the box. The soft-gels themselves are a transparent, yellow tinted gel about the size of your standard fish oil pill. In fact I am betting some people may not want to place these in the same location as their fish oils in, say, a pill box as I could see how they might be mistaken. One thing I do notice, taking a step back to the nutrition information, it says "Conjugated Linoleic Acid Oil 1589 mg". Now, does this mean each soft-gel is OVER the 1,000 mg title because if so that'd be just nuts. I plan on shooting BulkSupplements an e-mail to ask what's up with that. Typically CLA is derived from Safflower Oil, so not seeing that on there makes me raise an eyebrow but BulkSupplements certainly doesn't seem like they're trying to hide anything so I'm not really bothered by this. To wrap up my novel these soft-gels are great. I haven't noticed any drastic changes in my physique but that's kind of the point. These are supposed to keep my fat levels where they are so as long as I start putting on the muscle, these are doing their job. I highly recommend CLA from this company. I will be doing business with BulkSupplements again for sure!