In January of this year, the FDA stated that homeopathic HcG compounds are fraudulent and illegal.
According to Elizabeth Miller, the FDA’s leader for the Internet and health fraud team, There is no evidence the oral over-the-counter products are effective for weight loss. While they may not be dangerous, they’re at least “economic fraud,” she says.
Because the products do not seem to be “a serious direct health hazard or a serious indirect health hazard,” they have been a lower priority for FDA action than other products. Still, Miller says, “they could be subject to enforcement at any time.”
One of the issues is the homeopathic label. Homeopathy is an alternative medicine practice of using very small or diluted preparations of medicines or remedies to treat a condition. Miller says, “We are aware of HCG products that claim to be homeopathic, but it is not recognized in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia.” Therefore, these products “are not recognized by the FDA as homeopathic drugs, so they are unapproved drugs and are illegal,” she says.
They claim there is no evidence that the HcG diet works, whether by oral spray or prescription injectable. However, enough data has become available on the effectiveness of this diet that many health insurances companies are beginning to pay for it when a patient is clinically obese.
It makes us wonder who they’re protecting? Late last year Dr. Morningstar submitted a case study for peer review where one of his patients dropped 71 pounds in 4 months while on the oral homeopathic HcG liquid drops. Is the FDA protecting the patients, or are they protecting the pharmaceutical companies from losing money on the diet since many of these patients end up needing less or none of their old cholesterol and blood pressure medications? We wonder. We do agree that many commercially available HcG products are probably bogus, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. Many vitamin and mineral supplements found at national vitamin chains are garbage too, but they’re not outlawed.
Our office uses prescription-grade injectable HcG from a reputable compounding pharmacy. Our patients using this program are consistently getting the advertised results. For more information on our HcG weight loss program, contact Stacy, my medical assistant. She is ready and happy to help you. Contact us at 810-694-3576 or email us at info@nwprc.com
Source: USA Today
