HCG – Human Chrionic Gonadotrophin

More than 50 years ago Dr. A. T. W. Simeons became interested in how a pregnant woman could lose weight during pregnancy and still deliver a healthy baby. While researching this occurrence he found that the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (hCG) to be responsible. This hormone is produced by the body in abundance during pregnancy, causing the mothers adipose fat to liquefy in levels more than sufficient to supply her bloodstream with nutrition around the clock to ensure the proper development of her unborn child.

Taking his research further, Dr Simeons studied the effects of hCG on weight loss. During his studies, it was noticed that when small doses of hCG were administered, without a diet and without weight loss, changes in body measurements occurred, hips and waist became smaller. At first it was thought that this was due to redistribution of water. Later it was established that it was adipose tissue fat that was on the move.

One pound of body fat stores upwards of 2000 calories. Once body fat is made fluid, nutrition can be released to the bloodstream, reducing hunger, and waste flushed from the system. Calories provided on an even consistent level improves metabolism. With diet, women were shown to lose weight at a rate of ½ to ¾ pounds per day and men at a rate of ½ to 1½ pounds per day.

HCG allows a person to live more on their stored fat than on what they eat. It triggers the body to provide a constant flow of "food" received from the fat that your body is breaking down and using. That means burning 3500 to 4000 calories of stored fat and losing 1 to 2 pounds a day!

The effects of hCG to the hormones’ interaction with the hypothalamus gland, which, among other things, helps to control the set point for weight.  hCG helps break down deeply stored fatty tissues and evacuates them via the kidneys so that the body can utilize the calories released from the fatty stores.

Without hCG to assist you during a low calorie diet, your body will begin to deplete 50% fat and 50% muscle.  This results in lowering your resting metabolic rate "RMR."  This means that if you lose muscle you also lose metabolism. For each pound of muscle that your body loses, you also lose about 50 calories in metabolism.

While shedding extra pounds helps to improve the overall health of a person on the hCG diet, additional benefits noted with hCG injections are normalized cholesterol levels, normalized thyroid gland and to balanced hormones while rebuilding the adrenal glands.