CLA for weight loss AND blocks estrogen!?

[Linda_M]

Hi, I know there's no "magic pill" for weight loss but apparently CLA, or Conjugated Linoleic Acid, will help you maintain your weight and possibly help you to loose a little bit. While researching this pill for weight, I came across A LOT of articles that Conjugated Linoleic Acid Blocks Estrogen Signaling in Human Breast Cancer Cells! There were many many articles on this.

Has anyone else heard of this? I know some herbal medicines can be really bad on the liver but I can't find information linking the two on side effects.

Is this something that might help us? I'm not very good at reading abstracts so maybe some of you can help me understand this.

I just googled CLA and this is the web site I was reading: jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/134/3/674

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Thanks!
Linda (from a very cold city!)