i've done some reading up on this and found enough to generate interest in trying it out.

Anyone else got experience using it? more importatnly anyone had any issues.

I used it for a while, didn't notice any difference, read some negative things about it, stopped using it, and again didn't notice any difference.

you got any links for that negative stuff i'd be v interested in reading that. all the stuff i read shows signicant reductions in bodyfat but not body weight over control groups. 3 studies showing signicant losses of BF is enough to generate my interest.

I'm trying to remember. This was about 5 - 6 years ago, back when CLA was the hot thing in the bodybuilding community. Some studies came out indicating some negative effects on the heart/cholesterol but my memory is shaky. I'll see if I can find anything. But like I said, taking it versus not taking it didn't affect my body fat percent or anything else. It was just an expensive waste, so far as I could tell.

heart problems and cholesterol i can understand as it is obviously a fat. i'll have a look myself. as for the expense you can get it now for just over £0.50p a day so its not a big bank breaker.

From my understanding, CLA doesn't reduce your body fat but it may help prevent you from gaining fat.

http://www.3fatchicks.com/cla-conjugated-linoleic-acid/

That references an old study but here is what it says:
Dr. Michael Pariza, who conducted research on CLA with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reported in August 2000 to the American Chemical Society that “It doesn’t make a big fat cell get little. What it rather does is keep a little fat cell from getting big.”

Pariza’s research did not find weight loss in his group of 71 overweight people, but what he did find was that when the dieters stopped dieting, and gained back weight, those taking CLA “were more likely to gain muscle and not fat.” In a separate study conducted at Purdue University in Indiana, CLA was found to improve insulin levels in about two-thirds of diabetic patients, and moderately reduced the blood glucose level and triglyceride levels.