{"id":99255,"date":"2009-12-22T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calorielab.com\/news\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2009-12-22T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:27:38","slug":"anti-obesity-vaccine-promises-to-help-you-%e2%80%9closs-weight%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/99255","title":{"rendered":"Anti-obesity vaccine promises to help you \u201closs weight\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our pal Yoni Freedhoff noted a great product for sale on eBay that, we, too, just couldn’t resist mentioning. It is, supposedly, an anti-obesity vaccine<\/a> being sold by an eBay user appropriately named Bumglo<\/a>, who shockingly has 100 percent positive feedback.<\/p>\n

Weight loss vaccine for cosmetic use only<\/h3>\n

The eBay listing calls the product a “Germany Vaccine,” and one month’s treatment is going for $145. It includes 20 milliliters of the Sculptural Metabolize treatment and syringes to use to give yourself a 2.5 milliliter injection in the rump twice a week for four weeks.<\/p>\n

The listing says it’s been used successfully hundreds of thousands of times worldwide and that there are scientific studies to back that up, but of course there are no links or details about where such studies might have been published or what sorts of results you might be able to expect.<\/p>\n

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It’s heralded as a non-surgical alternative to liposuction and says that it’s an effective way to achieve spot fat reduction and “precise control exactly which fatty areas are dissolved.” Of course it doesn’t explain how it’s possible to shoot yourself in the arse and have the product know which fat you want dissolved, but that’s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n

We dug a little deeper and found a website in Spanish<\/a> that is selling what looks like the same product. The admittedly probably really bad translation<\/a> says this product is “not a medicine” but is an “excellent product to reduce fat levels in our body.”<\/p>\n

What’s in the miracle cure?<\/h3>\n

The website says that the product contains three different ingredients that help boost metabolism and burn fat: hydroxycitric acid, benzamide and acetylcholine. <\/p>\n

Hydroxycitric acid<\/a> is a derivative of citric acid found in some tropical plants; studies in animals and in the lab have shown some promise for the acid in changing fat metabolism, but there’s no evidence it can really help people lose weight or fat.<\/p>\n

Benzamide<\/a> is a derivative of benzoic acid that is used in a wide variety of medicines, from pain relievers to antipsychotic drugs. And acetylcholine<\/a> is a neurotransmitter that activates muscles, among other things. <\/p>\n

The website’s translation says scientific sounding things like this, in reference to benzamide:<\/p>\n

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It is a drug whose components are strings of amino acids that work by increasing the catabolism of triglycerides deposited the body as adipose tissue, helping to break the intercellular junctions of adipocytes in a generalized manner, and to carry this fat “deposit” to lymphoid tissue venous and then remove it through the urine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, it’s claiming it makes you pee fat. I think. <\/p>\n

This could be a great Christmas gift for the person on your list who likes getting regular shots in the posterior for no good reason. If you happen to know someone like that.<\/p>\n

(By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)<\/p>\n

From the RSS feed of CalorieLab News<\/a> (REF3076322B7)<\/p>\n

Anti-obesity vaccine promises to help you “loss weight”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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