I read how there is no way the FDA allows non medical people to order and get the real form of HCG and all this junk about homeopathic HCG and then this site claims to be FDA approved and they say they have real HCG so how is this possible? They even have a BBB badge and say a rating of an A. I am worried that it is all just a scam and this is not even real after what I read and after watching Dr. Oz on HCG. Anyone have a thought?

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Chris O. I have a thought. Or two.

Read the small print at the end of the page:

"Our products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration"

Then read:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hcg-diet/AN02091

With regard to the BBB's A+ rating, three things. Firstly, the BBB has been largely discredited anyway, since admitting to being paid off to give certain businesses higher ratings than they deserved; secondly, the rating doesn't mean anything other than that not many people have actually complained, which is normal for a weight-loss plan - people don't want to complain, think they might have lost weight, did lose weight but for other reasons, etc. And lastly, this BBB rating only dates back 9 months, not really long enough to be taken too seriously on its own.

The "FDA approved" page has this text:

"However, it is important to note that just like many other diet supplements, the HCG Diet itself is not FDA approved."

Another page states that:

"It is reported that the homeopathic HCG drops, when combined with the suggested diet, helped users lose unwanted fat, maintain muscle tone and control hunger pains as well, as good as or better than the prescription or retail injections."

This is smoke and mirrors. The key here is "when combined with the suggested diet". Nobody argues with that. A 500-calorie diet will cause you to lose weight. That's nothing whatsoever to do with the drops. I might as well say, "this diet, when combined with a good solid slap on the butt every day, will help you lose weight". Give me $100 a month and six months and I can probably prove it, too.

It doesn't mention, either, that as soon as you stop the 500 calories a day, you'll put the weight back on.

And "homeopathic", what's that, exactly? Well ...

"Homeopathic “remedies” are prepared by serial dilution with shaking by forceful striking on an elastic body, which homeopaths term succussion. Each dilution followed by succussion is assumed to increase the effectiveness. Homeopaths call this process potentization. Dilution often continues until none of the original substance remains." ~ Wikipedia

And

"Many homeopathic remedies would be expected to contain zero molecules of the original substance."

See http://altmed.creighton.edu/Homeopathy/philosophy/dilution.htm

So, a genuine homeopathic product probably contains *none* of the original material at all, or at the very best, a vanishingly tiny amount. In the case of these drops, they aren't even officially homeopathic, which is why the FDA describes them as illegal.

To go back to your original question, "how is this possible?" - easy. It's BS.

3/29/11 • Votes (0)

Jeremy G. This comment deserves an award. Well said, and I agree completely.

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Chris O. Thanks! Now, about that award ... I accept all major credit cards ...

3/29/11 • Votes (0)

Aracelih c. I was worried about that too after I ordered, but if you take a look at it again it says that HCG is fda approved. However the HCG DIET is NOT approved.

4/3/11 • Votes (0)

Chris O. Hi Aracelih,

No, I am sorry to correct you, but HCG as sold as "homeopathic HCG" as here is not FDA approved, and the FDA themselves say that describing it as homeopathic HCG is illegal.

The hormone HCG is approved for certain uses by the FDA under a doctor's prescription, but this is not that. And although there's some arguable evidence about that helping people to lose weight, they're on diets anyway and those probably do the work, not the drug.

The confusion about this is encouraged deliberately by the people selling this stuff. If they stopped trying to find ways to make it look as if it were FDA approved, the claim would probably just go away.

In this case as I recall, they also say it is "prepared in FDA approved laboratories". This is another meaningless statement even if it's true. It doesn't mean the FDA have anything to do with the product itself.

Take care -- these people will charge you $50 for a bottle of water but only IF they can get away with it. And it's not the only scam there's been or will be, in which people have sold bottles of water for ridiculous prices (apart from your local supermarket, that is).

Maybe think of it like this: If you were drinking too much vodka and I told you that three drops of my product a day would stop you from getting drunk, but only on the condition that you didn't drink any alcohol anyway, would it work? Of course it would, but whether you used the drops or not, it would still work. Yet I could honestly claim that people who followed my advice and took the drops, stayed sober - as long as they did both. Smoke and mirrors.