The Truth Behind The HCG Diet

Everyone knows someone that has tried the hCG diet, unless you have been living under a rock, or run with an exceedingly thin crowd.

Like most everyone, I have friends and family that have tried the diet, mostly with impressive results. I had a few pounds to lose myself, so I decided to dig in and find out what is at the foundation of that diet.

What is hCG

Human chorionic gonadotropin or human chorionic gonadotrophin – is a glycoprotein hormone that is naturally produced only by females during pregnancy. It is created in massive quantities; during certain times in her pregnancy a woman may make as much as 1mm International Units per day in her urine (1,000 times the dose in the hCG diet). Like other gonadotrophic hormones, hCG can be concentrated from urine.

Dieting with hCG

In the late 1950’s the British endocrinologist A.T.W Simeons had been living and practicing in India. Dr. Simeons noted in his studies of under nourished pregnant females that they lost fat rather than lean tissue as is usually the case when the body is subjected to a calorie deficient diet. He deduced that the elevated hCG hormone levels observed in all pregnant females must be programming the hypothalamus to selectively mobilize expendable excessive adipose deposits, in order to protect the developing fetus. Simeons, while practicing at Salvator Mundi International Hospital in Rome, somewhat later in his career, experimented with low-dose hCG injections in combination with ultra-low-calorie diet. Dr. Simeon was largely able to build up the same loss of adipose tissue without forfeiture of lean tissue that he had earlier noticed in the impoverished women of India.

Studies of hCG Diets

Dr. Simeon published his work in a series of papers and books, the most complete of which is called “A New Approach to Obesity”. Dr. Simeon began to test his conclusion that the hCG hormone found in pregnant women might react in his test subjects in the same way, causing the body to use excess fat, in response to a very low calorie diet. Dr. Simeon indeed observed that his patients that followed a very low calorie diet plan enjoyed an increased metabolic rate – an increase as much as 30%, and a matching fat loss. More significantly, he observed that hCG “opened only the excess fat cells allowing excess fat to be burned”. No other time, only in the presence of hCG, does the human body make this happen. Simeon noticed that in contrast to diets that simply restrict calories, hCG dieters burned the excess fat cells, sparing lean body tissues and needed fat, literally sculpting their bodies, losing inches as well as pounds. More significantly (at least to me) Dr. Simeon noticed that his subjects were able to stay on their diets, without reports of the driving hunger that plagues most low calorie dieters.

The Hope of hCG for Dieters

According to Simeon, the hCG diet program addresses the core of the dilemma with weight gain. Most diets are for life, because when you reach your goal weight your hypothalamus (where you have a base weight set in the brain) thinks it needs to be at your pre-weight loss weight, so it lowers your metabolism, switching it into a storing mode, and causing the body to re-gain the weight lost.

If you are serious about losing weight then I am serious about getting some cheap HCG diet drops. The Author is a serial dieter, who lost – and kept off – 27 pounds in 40 days following a cheap hCG Diet.

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