http://www.obesity-news.com/abs05-98.htm#bromocriptine has information on
the dead product Ergoset. The website www.ergo.com is now dead. The product
flatlined- the FDA bounced it. I know a couple of people who took it (you
only had to know the dose and time)- they felt quite unwell and lost no
weight. My advice- stay away from it- it won't work and may cause side
effects. Humans don't actually hibernate. Just stick to your paleodiet- and
see if you can get your body fat monitored on those special scales (eg as
made by Tanica)- your body fat may be dropping more quickly than your
weight. Do you know anyone who PERMANENTLY lost weight with a drug?- I'm yet
to meet one.
Ben Balzer
----- Original Message -----
From: Donna H <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 7:11 PM
Subject: [P-F] Back on my Circadian Soapbox


> Found this citation of a study on message board... thoughts?
>
> <<Albert Meier, professor of zoology at Louisiana State University,
> initiated a study of bromocriptine after 25 years of research on
> animals' body rhythm biology during migration and hibernation. What he
> attempted to translate to humans was the finding that many animals
> reduce or increase their body fat without altering food intake or
> activity levels. (Insight, Mar 26 1990)
>
> Meier, Cincotta and Lovell have dramatically reduced body fat with
> bromocriptine taken orally at times calculated to reset circadian
> hormone rhythms to phase relationships that cause loss of body fat.
> Bromocriptine is a dopamine agonist used to suppress lactation and in
> treatment of Parkinson's disease.
>
> "The phase of the prolactin rhythm differs in lean and fat sparrows,
> fish, rats, and humans. Daily injections of prolactin in animals at
> times when the daily peaks occur in the plasma of lean and fat animals
> produce the appropriate decrease or increase in fat stores within two
> weeks."
>
> In early clinical trials, without food restriction, body fat was
> reduced equivalent to a 420 calorie VLCD, but without the loss of lean
> body mass caused by weight loss diets. Studies with Syrian hamsters
> investigating whole body protein turnover indicate this treatment
> enhances protein synthesis, redirecting anabolic activities from lipid
> to protein. Apparently the timed bromocriptine treatment alters the
> genetically controlled partitioning of nutrients described in "The
> response to long-term overfeeding in identical twins" discussed above.
>
> In the second study reported in Experientia 48 (March 1992 p. 248-), 15
> diabetic subjects were given timed bromocriptine treatment. As with the
> non-diabetic subjects, all 15 diabetic subjects lost fat >>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com