tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403604088656261994.post2531785808388779987..comments2023-08-08T04:37:39.363-07:00Comments on Weight-Loss Apocalypse: DO FAT CELLS GO AWAY?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403604088656261994.post-39435224925881259882013-09-02T19:01:33.942-07:002013-09-02T19:01:33.942-07:00Ok 'doctor' anonymous. We really believe ...Ok 'doctor' anonymous. We really believe you are doing your own research and not just making shit up or copying off the internet. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403604088656261994.post-82929467351958695142012-05-06T20:04:44.529-07:002012-05-06T20:04:44.529-07:00I was trained in medicine by the Department of Def...I was trained in medicine by the Department of Defense in the early 80's - and it just so happens that I've been plugging away at how Simeons Method works going on 3 years now. I understand the vivid dreams, the infrequent but possible hair loss, increase in olfactory acuity, the metabolic shift. <br /><br />Based on my research, hCG DOES tend to influence one's relationship with food, and the way it does so is truly fascinating, once you wrap your head around it. I tested leptin in 2010 and the downward shift experienced with weight reduction wasn't far from the shifts seen in existing studies using VLCDs stand alone (non-hCG reduction diets) Leptin IS a factor, but not in absolute terms. hCG has multiple means of reducing hunger, multiple methods of increasing long term success following the reduction period.<br /><br />I think it naive to think the FDA cares that hCG is a powerful adjunct to a VLCD. There are several free sold commercial VLCD programs available in the United States that are within a few hundred cals of Simeons restrictions, some even less than 500 kcals/day - odd that the FDA never felt the need to "warn" people about THOSE VLCDs. Another thing about the FDA (talk about mouth breathers) is that their requirements for a "successful diet drug" include x% of weight loss - a stay at home mom is intelligent enough to know a reduction diet should be based on FAT loss, not WEIGHT loss. <br /><br />I don't think it's by chance that I can't find any published body comp studies paid for by main stream diet companies, if published studies on VLCDs are accurate, over half of the weight loss from main stream diets is lean mass loss - which would just about destroy any chance at long term maintaining due to the huge decrease in metabolic rate. <br /><br />If you want to do something extremely meaningful - run indirect calorimetry & hydrostatic body comps on 2 people within 5 years of each other, same sex, similar height and starting weight. (if female make sure they both are on the same side of the fence in regards to menopause) Have one do Simeons, one on Jenny or Nutri... have each stop after 25 lb loss, retest each 3 weeks after weight stable (wait the extra 2-3 months for the main streamer to lose the same amount of weight) The difference in RMR & lean mass loss might have you fuming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com