The following is from the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Feb 1, 1977. Their text is in black and my comments are in
blue.
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) Treatment of Obesity
K. R. Shetty and R. K. Kalkhoff
After a nine-day control period
(note the protocol requires more than 9 days),
six hospitalized (Why were they hospitalized? That is
not part of the protocol, in fact some physical activity is
required by the protocol.) obese women
were placed on 500 calorie diets and were given 125 IU of human chorionic
gonadotropin (HCG) intramuscularly daily for 30 days
(Injections for 30 days? Were those before, during or after the 9 days listed
above? Can we get some facts with these studies to show us why HCG "banned
from the US as a weight loss 'drug'?"). Another five obese women
received injections of dilutant only and consumed identical diets for the same
period (But they were not hospitalized like
the other women were, curious. Isn't the point of an experiment like that to
isolate the test subjects? Why were some isolated, but others were not for the
same experiment? It doesn't make any sense!).
Meanwhile weight loss in the HCG-treated group was nearly identical
to that achieved by women given the placebo
(After only 9 days they came to this conclusion. Wow! They must have been
super geniuses!). Reduction of triceps
skin-fold thickness or circumferential body measurements of the chest, waist,
hips, and thighs were not different. Patterns of change of a variety of plasma
and urine substrates, electrolytes, and hormones were similar in the two
groups and consistent with semi-starvation and weight loss. These results
indicate that HCG has no effects on chemical and hormonal parameters measured
and offers no advantage over calorie restriction in promoting weight loss.
(Let me get this
straight, the conclusion is that after a test done with multiple people, with
no findings (weights, measurements or anything like that) that were posted of
any of the subjects, inconclusive dates (9 days VS 30 days) and no other
information provided about the subjects. These people then decided that HCG
was bad for you based on ... I guess on their say so, since no proof was
actually provided.)
Notice above I put the word drug in quotes. That is because
HCG is not a drug, but a natural occurring hormone. It is not a drug at all.
Every person born has HCG in their body. Why is that blood transfers are all
right, but another part of the human body that is even more universal than
blood is not all right to transfer according to the FTC? Simply because it
goes against their money making scheme. With HCG information available, the
food and drug companies would collapse and diet companies would no longer
exist. Multiple billions of dollars per year in profit for those
corporations would vanish overnight. That is why the information about HCG
gets suppressed. The FDA is simply protecting the profits and interests of the
corporations over your health and safety.
I also put the phrase "banned from the US as a weight loss 'drug'" in quotes
also. Interestingly enough, HCG is still approved to be used in fertility
drugs. Why is it safe to use for fertility, but not for weight loss? We know
that HCG does not kill anyone, after all people are born with HCG in their
bodies. So what harm does it impose on people to have a need to ban it? No
harm at all, in fact the only harm having HCG more readily available is the
lowering of paychecks for those corporations. Greed alone has pushed HCG out
of the U.S. part way, but it is still legal in other ways.
This was from a study posted by JAMA in May, 1985.
GnRH and HCG Tests Are Both Necessary In Differential Diagnosis of Male
Delayed Puberty
L. Dunkel, J. Perheentupa, M. Virtanen and J. Maenpaa
The discriminative power of the gonadotropin releasing hormone test and the
human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) test in the diagnosis of gonadotropin
deficiency was studied in 73 boys referred because of delayed pubertal
development or suspicion of gonadotropin deficiency. Hypogonadotropic
hypogonadism was confirmed by clinical follow-up in 21 of the boys and
excluded in the others because of normal pubertal development. Those latter
boys served as a reference group. The post-HCG serum testosterone level was
subnormal in hypogonadotropic hypogonadism on 12 of 19 occasions (in the
reference group on two of 46 occasions) and the post-gonadotropin releasing
hormone serum luteinizing hormone level was subnormal on fourteen of 22
occasions (zero of 65). Four of the seven boys with hypogonadotropic
hypogonadism who had normal post-HCG testosterone levels had subnormal peak
luteinizing hormone levels. Of the remaining three boys, two had low basal
testosterone levels. Combining the two tests therefore improved the diagnostic
accuracy.
So now they are telling us that there is such a thing as not
having enough HCG in the body, where it slows down puberty in some boys.
Interesting that they do not site the February, 1977 findings here. Suddenly
HCG is the hero in this scenario. Who do they think they are fooling anyway?
Do they think no one would ever find out that they are for a hormone one
minute when it suits their needs and against it when it does not suit their
needs?
I followed the first story through the links at the bottom where it was sited
in other studies. Interesting that the story with very little details about
the 9 obese women merges into another story that is not about HCG weight loss
and is way too boring to repost (meaning, look it up yourself), but then that
story breaks off into 5 more studies that all say HCG is good for a person. If
it is considered good for people, then why the opposition to HCG for weight
loss? It is all about the money. The serious implication is that if HCG were
more widely available, then less of their products would sell meaning of
course less money for them.
This was from a study posted by JAMA in Sep, 1980.
Serum Gastrin and Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in the Zollinger-Ellison
Syndrome
B. E. Stabile, G. D. Braunstein and E. Passaro Jr
Prior to total gastrectomy, serum levels of gastrin and human chorionic
gonadotropin (HCG) and its alpha- and beta-subunits (alpha-HCG and beta-HCG)
were determined by radioimmunoassays in 40 patients with the Zollinger-Ellison
syndrome. Basal serum gastrin levels greater than 1,500 pg/mL were found only
in patients with metastases to lymph nodes or liver, while levels greater than
8,000 indicated massive liver replacement by tumor. Gastrin levels less than
1,500 pg/mL had no correlation with malignant behavior. Neither the
calcium-infusion nor secretin-injection test was useful in identifying tumors
as benign or malignant. Basal serum levels of alpha-HCG were elevated (> 7 ng/mL)
in four of 20 patients with metastatic gastrinoma and were normal in all 16
patients with benign disease. There was a significant correlation between
basal gastrin and alpha-HCG levels in patients with malignant gastrinoma but
not for those with benign tumors. The results suggest that serum gastrin and
alpha-HCG levels can be useful in assessing the biologic behavior of
gastrinomas and in planning appropriate surgical and nonsurgical treatment.
Again, another use of HCG.
It is amazing, the more I look into HCG the more things in the normal human
body I see it affect. I personally believe that human life on earth would end
if HCG were wiped out. It is part of so many systems in the body. It affects
the hypothalamus gland, weight, mood, thoughts, fertility, other hormones, the
digestive system, our blood, and I am sure I will learn a few more by the end
of the day.
Actually I did find more. Check this one out.
The role of radioimmunodetection in the management of testicular cancer
N. Javadpour, E. E. Kim, F. H. DeLand, J. R. Salyer, U. Shah and D. M.
Goldenberg
Five patients with testicular cancer received an intravenous injection of
between 1 and 2.5 mCi of iodine 131-labeled antibody to human chorionic
gonadotropin (HCG) or alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), followed by total-body
photoscanning to visualize areas of abnormal radioactivity. Blood-pool and
nontarget sites of radioactivity were reduced by subtracting the images
derived by injection of technetium Tc 99m-labeled components from the iodine
131 scans. The HCG-immune scintiscans proved helpful in tumor localization and
in the selection of appropriate therapy, while the AFP scan presented
corroborative evidence of widespread tumor. Elevated serum levels of these two
markers did not hinder successful tumor detection and localization by this
method of radioimmunodetection. Cancer radioimmunodetection with antibodies to
HCG and to AFP appears to be a useful procedure for the pretreatment and
posttreatment evaluation of patients with testicular cancer and can reveal
sites of tumor not detected by other methods.
They actually had to kill off HCG to find the tumor. Wait a
minute, why where all of those idiot talk show hosts concerned with having HCG
put into their bodies, when this document clearly shows that the person had
HCG in their body in order for it to be killed off. They never said they put
the HCG into the patient, therefore the person still had some of their HCG
from birth, and the doctors went straight after it to kill it. The point I am
making on this one is that HCG is in your body when you are born whether you
are a male or female (see Dr. A.T.W. Simeons "HCG
Is Not a Sex Hormone). It is not a new thing you are introducing to
your body, you already have or maybe had HCG from birth.
I found the original story that started all of this mess
against HCG for weight loss back in 1976. My comments will be first this time.
I noticed that when I read this, there were no statistics listed with the
findings. I noticed again that a lot of other "studies" site this as their
primary foundation for their claims. The problem is, there is no real
foundation listed in this study. I looked all over the internet for it, but I
haven't found anything. Where is the missing data from the study? Basically
the FTC had HCG banned back in 1976 for no reason because it cut into the
profits of certain corporations. I have never seen any study saying that HCG
is bad for a person. In fact, almost all of the studies I found in the medical
records show that injecting HCG fixes various problems.
HCG can be sold for any reason other than weight loss according to the FTC
based on the following study that had no results listed. The most interesting
thing to note in my opinion is that they never say that HCG does not promote
weight loss in the study. It says "there was no statistically significant
difference between those receiving HCG vs. placebo during any phase of this
study (P greater than .1)." That means that both groups had the same results,
but what were they? Did they all lose weight? Did they all stay the same? Did
they gain weight? There was no mention of the weights at the beginning or at
the end of the study. Personally I believe that they all lost weight, but the
FTC was assigned to cover it up for the FDA. Every test study I have ever seen
has shown that HCG helps with weight loss. Read any medical findings about HCG
for weight loss from another country and you will see that they all say it is
great for weight loss as long as you don't have some specific types of cancer.
Anyway, I just wanted to post the incredibly detailed study that documents
that HCG does not work for weight loss (according to the FTC). Here it is:
Chorionic Gonadotropin in Weight Control - A Double-Blind
Crossover Study
R. L. Young, R. J. Fuchs and M. J. Woltjen
Two hundred two patients participated in a double-blind random cross-over
study of the effectiveness of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) vs placebo in
a wieght reduction program. Serial measurements were made of weight, skin-fold
thickness, dropout rates, reasons for dropping out, and patient subjective
response. There was no statistically significant difference between those
receiving HCG vs placebo during any phase of this study (P greater than .1).
Yes, that was it. Blown
away, aren't you?
