The Predictable and Upcoming Purge of Illegal Homeopathic hCG
We’ve known for 2-1/2 years and have told people since August 2009 that homeopathic hCG is illegal. We predict the FDA will take enforcement action within 6-18 months.
At the largest chiropractic show in the US– this past January 2011′s Parker Convention in Las Vegas– Loving Works released an article that predicted the FDA would take action on homeopathic hCG because it was illegal. (We later published a shortened version of that article in the April edition of the Journal of the Michigan Chiropractic Association (http://www.chiromi.com/)).
Two weeks later, in a January 23, 2011 article in the online USATODAY, the FDA stated homeopathic hCG was illegal. (See link: http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/fitness/weight-loss-challenge/2011-01-24-hcgdiet24_ST_N.htm)
Why? Homeopathic hCG is a misbranded and adulterated substance because the active ingredient– human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)– is a pharmaceutical drug approved in 1972 for fertility treatments.
According to FDA Compliance Policy Guide 400.400, in order to market a homeopathic product that has a pharmaceutical active ingredient, there must either be an monograph that is approved by the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the US (HPUS) or a manufacturer’s finding that validates the efficacy of the pharmaceutical ingredient as a homeopathic ingredient. (http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/ComplianceManuals/CompliancePolicyGuidanceManual/ucm074360.htm)
There is no monograph in the HPUS for homeopathic hCG.
There are no approved, published manufacturer’s findings for homeopathic hCG.
Hence every manufacturer and every seller of homeopathic hCG is selling a misbranded drug.
There have been many articles and newscasts–including a full show on hCG by Dr. Oz– that mentioned the controversy, but somehow the producers or writers failed to report the key phrase: ILLEGAL.
Seems strange that even Dr. Oz would miss this on his program.
This will change soon.
From our sources, we know that the FDA is collecting data on the side effects of using homeopathic hCG as a weight loss application. Because there are side effects. Look at any weight loss forum or any Facebook hCG product page. Even though the January 2011 article stated that the FDA was not currently enforcing the law on homeopathic hCG, they will be.
And soon.
We predict FDA regulations prohibiting the sale of homeopathic hCG will be enforced in the next 6 to 18 months.
Big time.
Certain people will be selected and their businesses will be shut down. Selected chiropractors selling the product will have their practices raided, computers confiscated and homeopathic hCG products seized. Licenses to practice chiropractic will be up for penalties or suspension. Chiropractors who lose their livelihoods may have grounds to sue the manufacturers and wholesalers who sold them illegal products that they either knew beforehand were illegal and sold it anyway or didn’t know and but were still responsible.
We have documentation of a current major homeopathic hCG manufacturer who knows all of this and sells the stuff anyway. He is on record of secretly telling his prized customers that the…
“…Worse scenario as we see it we just take HCG out of the formula and off the label and you have a relatively seamless marketing and sales adjustment. Those selling HCG without Official HPUS ingredients to substantiate their claims get the rug pulled out from underneath them. Now the competing products are gone and you are left with the market in your hands as the go to practitioner!”
How can they take the hCG out of the homeopathic product and still be able to follow the Simeons protocol? They can’t without admitting that hCG is not a necessary ingredient to achieve the weight loss.
Does this not support the MD’s, the health websites, the experts who say that hCG does nothing to help people lose weight other than a placebo effect?
We know of another top hCG manufacturer that has already done just that. They no longer offer their homeopathic hCG that they have sold in the tens of thousands but instead have launched a new product that has numerous amino acids, changes the Simeons protocol (which was very strict and explicitly called for injectible hCG) but still says it’s the Simeon’s protocol. And so they have already made the great leap.
I don’t blame them. They are capitalists, interested in making money. They rode the hCG horse and now see it’s time is ending. Time to ride the new horse– the hCG protocol without hCG.
There’s a slight problem as I see it. How can someone with integrity and a straight face sell you homeopathic hCG today, raving about its efficacy and effectiveness with the Simeons protocol and the next day tell you that you don’t need the hCG ingredient or don’t have to follow the strict requirements of the Simeons protocol? It’s totally contradictory!
Should we be surprised about this insidious attitude of those who will “…hold their nose while they take your money…” as a chiropractor mentioned to me recently?
Nope.
But you might be surprised, you the buying public. Even though tens of thousands, if not many more, users of homeopathic hCG were able to drop significant weight, it may cause you to question where you’re spending your hard-earned dollars.
Yet there will likely be a different outcry when the FDA shuts down homeopathic hCG. The average Joe and Jane who had results will complain: ”Those FDA people are all trying to help the Big Pharma companies make more money.”
While there may be many questionable goings-on at FDA, the revolving door between industry and regulators of industry swapping seats as consultants and administrators, of who gets to speak and who doesn’t, etc., etc., the upcoming purge of illegal homeopathic hCG is simply law enforcement. FDA announced in December 2010 that they were targeting body building (human growth hormone, steroids), Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and weight loss for misbranded and adulterated products, in order to protect the public from unscrupulous sellers (http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm236774.htm).
What is surprising is how many unscrupulous sellers who make and sell homeopathic hCG today consider themselves good people, who want to do right and just make a living, to make some decent money (or a huge amount of it). If you mention that they are crooks, that they are pushers selling an illegal drug, they give excuses or argue about it, calling such claims fear based or scare tactics.
For example, one manufacturer said that the illegality of homeopathic hCG was “…in a grey area.” Yet he knows clearly it’s black and white!
What’s strange is these same people wouldn’t think of selling homeopathic cocaine because it’s obviously illegal– even though it DOES have a HPUS monograph. Because even though homeopathic cocaine is homeopathic, it still requires a prescription from a licensed health care provider (for use as a treatment for mountain sickness). Why? It’s a Schedule II controlled substance. Just like hCG is a controlled substance too– a Schedule III controlled substance listed in 22 states. Both require a prescription to be obtained properly.
So it’s predictable. Homeopathic hCG will be shut down. Just like hCG was shut down in 1975 after growing quickly in the early 1970′s to become the largest selling weight loss program in the US.
So does hCG really work you may ask?
From 1958 to 1977, 15 of 16 double-blind, placebo based controlled studies revealed hCG is not statistically significant, meaning it’s no better than a placebo. Most health organizations says it’s bunk, even a fraud. The FDA says hCG is health fraud and homeopathic hCG is both health fraud and an illegal, misbranded product.
Yet tens of thousands of successful users disagree. And so does the IAPAM (International Association for Physicians in Aesthetic Medicine ), which is on record saying not only does hCG work, but they have a training program for their members. Hundreds of MD’s have been trained to prescribe hCG off-label for their weight loss patients. As medical doctors, they can legally prescribed hCG for off-label use (as long as they meet FDA/FTC requirements established in 1975). Tens of thousands of hCG users swear by it.
Heck, we at Loving Works are on record as saying hCG is a viable weight loss regimen. We just insist on reminding users that they should follow the law and stop buying illegal homeopathic hCG, which is an illegal drug. Get it legally from a licensed health care provider. That it costs $300- $1000 via a doctor’s prescription rather than $20-$125 on the internet is too bad. It’s a drug. Pay the price instead of buying illegal.
It’s that simple.
Or if you want a better alternative, contact us. 70% of people who use the Weight Balancing System (WBS) and hCG prefer the WBS over hCG. Check out http://mlw.mylovingworks.com/forum to find out more.
It truly is that simple to see that homeopathic hCG will soon be on its way out.
[...] At MyLovingWorks.com, we wrote about homeopathic hCG being illegal starting in August, 2009. We released extensive research at the Parker Convention in Las Vegas last January to the Chiropractic profession and published an article in the Journal of the Michigan Association of Chiropractors in April, 2010 (because 3 of the top 4 national magazines would not take our article). A past blog in June predicted this action (see http://mylovingworks.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/the-predictable-and-upcoming-purge-of-illegal-homeopat…) [...]
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