Re: HCG is suppressive to the HPTA in men!
hCG and obesity Discussion Forum

From: Dr. Daniel Belluscio
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Hello Paul!! 

Well, here we have several interesting points to discuss. 

I appreciate your comments. 

1."HCG is suppressive to the HPTA in men" 

Oh yeah? 

Depends on where you get the information from!!! If you select Body Builders' webpages it appears correct.

But those guys use HUGE, HUGE amounts of hCG, or testosteron , or whatsoever, to increase their muscle mass at no functional utility. If you direct your attention to those responsible scientific reports (normal dose used), you will find quite the converse:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3927163&dopt=Abstract  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10488659&dopt=Abstract 

There's always a dose-response relationship when you administer any substance: one aspirin cures your headache, one hundred aspirins brings you acidotic coma. 

2."It will immediately shut down testosterone production in men. That's not conducive to losing fat, nor raising metabolism" 

That's because you associate testosteron production or inhibition secretion to obesity. Testosteron has nothing to do with obesity: its secretion may be, or may be not, impaired in obese patients, but please!!, using your standard: how would you explain obesity in women?

3"I'm not sure that I believe that HCG is bioavailable in an oral form, either" 

Here we are not talking about what you "believe" or not: science is a matter of facts, not believes. 

Please visit our website and browse the results from our Double-Blind Tests, contradicting your "believes". 

If you do not believe in our studies, please conduct the same test and we'll see your conclusions. 

3.This sounds alot like the "Oral Human Growth Hormone" scams to me.. 

We, in science, do not care about how it sounds. We care about facts... Read our study.

4."But I'll tell you what: I'll inject 2500 IU's of Pregnyl a week for a month and see if I lose weight. 

Oh boy!! Are you trying to find a magic wand to cure obesity?. 

Do you really believe the problem is that simple?. 

If you carefully read our studies, you will see that hCG treated patients lost the same amount of weight than those placebo-treated, but hCG volunteers  lost MORE BODY FAT than their placebo-treated counterparts. 

Why do you think that 2,500 IU of hCG will do the trick for you? Why not 1,500 IU, or 25,000 IU or 2,500,000 IU, or 250,000,000 IU daily would be more effective? 

Please read above about the aspirin example. Diet makes obese people lose weight. Diet+hCG makes weight loss mostly on adipose tissue conspicuous areas..

Best wishes, Dr. Belluscio

Last modified: 2007-29-03