The BATTLE of the BULGE:
Re-Sculpting Your Body
Non-Surgically Using the HCG PROTOCOL FOR
WEIGHT CONTROL
Almost everyone by now has heard about HCG because of the marketing genius of Kevin Trudeau. He is basically resurrecting very old, sound, but ignored ideas in natural medicine and bringing them back to life by breathing a hyped sense of “it can never fail” into them. In medicine, of course, there are very few things that are really like this. But again, one does not want to throw the baby out with the bath water. Although the HCG protocol was abandoned after “establishment” opposition in the 70's, it was a successful enough therapy to give its originator, Dr Simeons, a very high profile and internationally scoped practice loaded with the rich and famous for many years. One would have to conclude there must be something to it. Plus, the science behind the claims for HCG is intriguing, and deserves a fair trial, as long as it's safe. I doubt that HCG received a fair trial in the hands of the FDA. And so, under carefully monitored conditions, selected patients and I will be now be testing out the HCG protocol to see if it works today, and whether it can help patients suffering from metabolic conditions that prevent them from losing fat from specific storage sites. According to Trudeau, the FDA did not back up their label warning of dire dangers with the use of HCG with any clinical facts when asked for them. According to
Simeons, the injections were completely safe when used as directed. Never-the-less the FDA has labeled commercially available HCG with a “Not to be used for overweight conditions”. But then they have also labeled EDTA as “Not indicated for the treatment of arteriosclerosis”, and yet
chelating doctors all over the world (and the United States) daily enjoy good results with their patients by using it that way anyway.
HCG is the hormone excreted in large amounts in females, and primarily during pregnancy. Today it's medical uses are in inadequate gonadal development in boys, and infertility in women. Dr Simeons applied HCG to the (then rare)
problem of obesity because he was aware of its effect in mobilizing fat from deep storage depots within the body as in cases of a pregnant woman who became malnourished. Under those circumstances a healthy weight baby was born, even though the mother might be slipping away from lack of calories. Among its other effects, therefore, the one we are interested in here is that it forces the mobilization and burning of fat for energy under conditions of starvation dieting. Thus Simeons combined daily HCG injections (for 21 or 42 days depending on how much weight you have to lose) with a very low calorie diet (500 calories per day), and in so doing introduced what Trudeau now calls the “cure” for obesity. The body is re-sculpted without surgery, stubborn fat deposits are reduced, fat is burned for energy while patients did not suffer hunger despite the very low calorie intake. Even though it is a primary hormone of pregnant women, men need not be concerned about any feminization effects. It just doesn't happen. Many thousands of patients received help from this program, and Simeons became an international sensation. After a nice run of success, the establishment closed him down by widely publicizing their failure to replicate his results. Some people say the studies were set up to fail. That is not for us to know. What we do know is that losing weight, and even more so losing certain inches, is a near impossibility for some diligent and highly motivated people. HCG may be the solution for many of them.
Trudeau has done an odd but interesting thing which I haven't seen anyone comment on so far. He has made bold claims for HCG being the CURE for obesity, but yet when you read his book, you find that he is throwing every other recommendation for weight loss, every fad, every product (is he selling them?) he can think of except the kitchen sink itself at these patients. By doing this he gives me the message that he thinks a little insurance for these patients wouldn't hurt. Maybe that's true, but by adding pages and pages of recommendations and prohibitions, he has made the protocol too complicated for almost everyone. He is also telling me (very odd for a book about HCG) in so many
words that he's not so sure HCG will work by itself. Why do patients have to do all these other things that Simeons' patients never had to do? I feel that the patients are only eating 500 calories per day, so how important could eating HCG “activating” foods be? Undernourished mothers who later have healthy weight babies because of HCG don't make a point of eating radishes and cabbage, and avoiding mushrooms do they? I know Trudeau has a huge intellectual investment in the “organic” concept, but how important would eating organic be? Not very under these short term circumstances, in my opinion. Is there some hormone residues in commercial meats? Yes. Is it enough to sabatoge this plan? I really doubt it. Maybe all these other recommendations are in there to add pages to his book, and to convince his readers how much smarter he is than Dr Simeons, and everyone else. Maybe they are in there so he can use the excuse that "you didn't follow the protocol" on people who try it and don't succeed.
But what you and I really want to know is whether HCG in conjunction with a very low calorie diet works as well in our day as it did in the 50's and 60's for Simeons. I would like to say that if you WANT to do any/all of the numerous other things that Trudeau recommends, that it will probably NOT hurt anything, but I'm not so sure of that either. The patients I treat today cannot and will not make a full time job out of planning and shopping for complicated menu's, finding organic sources of food, and staying out of air conditioning. I feel that many of the recommendations he makes are downright foolish, and if everyone tried following his total plan, MOST would GIVE UP in frustration well before the 23 day mark. I want to set you up for success and not failure. IF HCG does what Simeon says he saw it do, then all we need to do is give you daily injections, have you limit your food intake to 500 calories per day, and you will lose about a pound a day of very hard to lose fat deposits up to a total of as much as 34 pounds in 6 weeks, and NOT BE HUNGRY doing it. Also, according to Simeons' orginal paper, the treatment works as a “cure” for the abnormal weight set points and hunger that plaque many overweight individuals, thus allowing freedom from special dieting requirements after the treatment. I know it sounds too good to be true. We will see. But the treatment appears to be very safe, so its benefits/risk ratio is very high.
I have now developed a much simpler clinical protocol for testing the theory that HCG in conjunction with a strict very low calorie diet can make people lose weight without hunger. Since we are going directly against FDA directives on this matter, my use of. HCG for this purpose is a bit more bureaucratically and legally dangerous than just “off label” usage of the drug, which every physician is certainly entitled to. Therefore I will be using an informed consent document for this treatment, and will be carefully monitoring patients with medical examinations and measurements. It is my initial intention to treat only twenty patients who happen to be excellent candidates for this protocol, and then to decide whether to continue to offer it to other patients. I will know within about 3-4 months if it really is effective. Stay tuned for a full report in later issues of Dr Bob. Those of you receiving my newsletter are the first to be notified about the availability of this new treatment. More than likely I will NOT be doing any general marketing of this study (or of the the treatment protocol if I end up continuing it) to the general public. Feel free to contact me if you think you should be one of the fist twenty. I will also accept non-newsletter subscribers you may refer to me for this purpose, but I will be carefully screening all potential HCG patients for suitability before accepting them.
Kevin Trudeau is not a doctor, but a journalist. All that he has done is written about an old treatment that helped him overcome his own longstanding battle with excess weight and abnormal hunger. In so doing maybe he has reactivated interest in a sleeping giant. My interest in this as a physician is only to test and uncover a possibly effective treatment for the puzzling problem of resistant obesity, and to have a safe treatment that can help these patients remodel their bodies and overcome the cycle of hunger, fat deposition, and further weight gain.
Robert C Filice, MD
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