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Post subject: HCG for weight loss....
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:41 pm

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A co worker of mine is receiving weekly injections of HCG to treat obesity. He goes to the Doctors office to get his shot or he takes it home with him once he got used to self injecting. He gave me the pamplet from his Doctor and he is a board certified Medical Doctor.

Apparently he is onto something as my co worker lost 64 pounds in two months with no major changes in diet, working out just once in two months, and no other medications.

The Doc is injecting 35 units each time....How much is a unit? Stupid question I guess....

Other patients get the shot twice a week and have lost more weight faster than my co worker.
 
HCG can be supressive in itself....not something I'd want to try for weightloss unless someone was morbidly obese.
 
I agree

Lets just keep taking drugs and not diet or train. That just proves laziness of people and gives them when the weight is lost the sad misconception that they are in good health. I hate people.
 
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Another strange obesity cure that was popular among physicians for a time was human chorionic gonadotropin (HGC), a type of growth hormone that was injected into patients. This treatment became popular in 1957, when Harper's Bazaar printed a diet -- "Slimming: A Roman Doctor's Treatment" -- that consisted of 500 calories a day for up to forty days, plus daily hormone injections. In the article, the physician, British endocrinologist A.T.W. Simeons, claimed his patients weren't hungry as long as they took shots of HCG, which is produced by the placenta and derived from the urine of pregnant women (variations on this treatment used the urine of pregnant rabbits and mares). It's the very hormone, in fact, that turns the stick blue on a home pregnancy test.
Human chorionic gonadotropin was legitimately used at the time to treat a condition called Fröhlich's syndrome, a hormonal imbalance that affects young boys, disturbing their sexual development, appetite, and sleep, and causing them to accumulate fat on the hips, buttocks, and thighs. Simeons reasoned that if the drug worked to melt away the fat on those boys with a rare genetic disorder, then it ought to do the same thing on normal, healthy women. The hormone, he wrote, would cause a "normal distribution" of fat on the body and would correct a "basic disorder in the brain." His diet book -- Pounds and Inches: A New Approach to Obesity -- included other gems of pseudo-medical advice, warning readers to eat no breakfast whatsoever, except for coffee, and to abstain from using any cosmetics or lotion on the body because it will be absorbed and added to the existing fat deposits in the body.
Simeon's treatment became all the rage; for a time, it was the most widespread medication given in the United States to lose weight, and was the main treatment used in eighty Weight Reduction Medical Clinics in California. Unfortunately, it didn't work: None of the mainly female patients seeking treatment, it turned out, were suffering from Fröhlich's syndrome. The medical establishment only started to become suspicious of the drug when reports surfaced that part-time doctors were being offered as much as $100,000 a year by weight-loss clinics to spend one afternoon a week sitting and writing pads of prescriptions for the drug.
In 1962, the Journal of the American Medical Association warned against the Simeons diet, saying "continued adherence to such a drastic regimen is potentially more hazardous to the patient's health than continued obesity." In 1974, the Food and Drug Adminstration required producers of HCG to label the drug with a warning against using it for weight loss or fat redistribution. In Canada, the Task Force on the Treatment of Obesity warned that the use of the hormone "touches on possible malpractice." Nevertheless, a few diet doctors continued with the treatment -- it is legal, after all, for physicians to prescribe medications for purposes that are not approved by the FDA -- often handing the patients the drugs and injection equipment so they could administer it themselves.
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max-rot98 said:
I agree

Lets just keep taking drugs and not diet or train. That just proves laziness of people and gives them when the weight is lost the sad misconception that they are in good health. I hate people.
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umm i think this was just posted to see if it was legit, not if it was stupid of the person not to go through diet first, which it is.

relax my friend, relax.:yawn:
 
Pioneer said:
umm i think this was just posted to see if it was legit, not if it was stupid of the person not to go through diet first, which it is.

relax my friend, relax.:yawn:
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sorry just the no diet change and barely any exercise got to me. See your point.:sad:
 
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