Human Chorionic Gandotrophin

Human chorionic gandotrophin, or HCG, is a hormone which has found in the urine of pregnant women. The use of HCG has many speculated benefits which are helpful for human. Some claim that it is very useful and highly effective tool which can fight against weight loss. This is not only an unverified claim, but the official U.S. Food and Drug Administration position is that it is wrong. However, the medical community does concur that there are some benefits to HCG in various kind of treatment of certain conditions, including infertility and various hormone related problems.

      Identification

   1. HCG is produced by the placenta which is a water soluble hormone. . It is found in the urine of pregnant women, primarily during the first trimester of pregnancy. It is part of a class of glycoprotein hormones, which include FSH (follicle stimulating hormones), TSH (thyroid stimulating hormones) and LH (luteinizing hormones). It contains both alpha and beta amino acids.

      Benefits

   2. HCG can help to increase an woman’s chances who are not pregnant before, of becoming pregnant, and it can help those women who are suffering from irregular menstrual cycles. It also assists increasing the production of testosterone and sperm. Finally, male children who are born with cryptorchidism (an abnormality in the testes present at birth) are aided successfully by HCG.

      HCG and Obesity Claims

   3. between the late 1950s, when first introduced by Dr. Simeons, and 1976, when the FDA and Federal Trade Commission had taken their steps against HCG injections, while the HCG injections were the most popular method of obesity control in America. Dr. Simeons claimed that the drugs allowed people to live on as little as 500 calories a day, and that the drugs distributed the body’s stored fat and helped the body to metabolize fat.

      Some guess their popularity was aided by doctors who desired to have the promise of patients returning to them for a weekly injection. Lacking of proven results and the government proper action, HCG injections lost its popularity until they were revived back in 2007 by an infomercial and book by Kevin Trudeau mentioning thatHCG injections were the cure to obesity and that the American Medical Association, FDA and other medical groups were bound to suppress the truth as they were a part of a conspiracy.

      FDA Position on HCG and Obesity

   4. Many doctors will no longer prescribe HCG injections for the lacking of proven results and the unknown future side effects and risks associated with the drugs. Furthermore, since 1975, the FDA has required a warning to be affixed to HCG products stating that they have not been passed through to be an effective therapy which can against obesity, that no evidence shows that they fulfill any of the promised claims.

      Side Effects

   5. in males, side effects of HCG which includes breast enlargement, height increases, and/or the sudden development of facial or pubic hair when administered to adoleswcents. When it is used as a treatment for fertility, HCG can cause heartburn, vomiting or nausea, uncontrollable passing of small amounts of urine, difficulty breathing, bloating or rapid weight gain.