About the HCG Diet

This blog provides info about the hCG Weight Loss Diet by Dr. Simeons – what works, what doesn’t, recipes, success stories, facts and information and reviews of products and clinics.

What is the HCG Diet?

Back in 1954, Dr. Simeons developed the HCG Diet Protocol which appears to be a CURE for obesity, since it enjoys a near 100% success rate and patients lose between 1/2 and 2 pounds of FAT per day, quickly dropping weight SAFELY and EFFECTIVELY.

Dr. Simeons showed that daily injections of a hormone produced in large quantity during pregnancy, accompanied by a specific Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD), enabled the body to metabolize what he labeled ‘Abnormal Fat’ – the fat that diet and exercise doesn’t seem to be able to address.

Dr. Simeons posited that there are 3 kinds of fat:  Structural Fat that cushions the organs, Normal Fat utilized for energy when the body’s metabolism is in normal operation, and Abnormal Fat that is deposited by the body when too many calories are consumed and over time the body loses access to these fat stores due to metabolic changes.

The HCG itself doesn’t cause weight loss, it somehow (in ways not fully understood yet) triggers the diencephalon region of the brain to burn up the abnormal fat in the body when the body is in a ’starvation state’.  This is why the VLCD is required.

It has been shown to be completely safe, but has been met with deep skepticism and derision by some in the medical establishment due to 2 factors:

1) Some studies, conducted in the 1970’s and 1980’s, concluded HCG was not effective in weightloss when compared to a placebo control group.  Unfortunately, weight loss comparisons (without taking into account lean mass vs. body fat ratios) are a poor way to judge the success of a weight loss protocol, since HCG is ‘muscle preserving’ and the weight lost on the HCG Diet is body fat, whereas a person on a VLCD starvation diet WITHOUT HCG would burn up muscle, which weighs a lot more than fat. 

2) Pharmaceutical companies and the weight loss industry aren’t going to make billions from it, since it cures obesity and eliminates the need to keep buying their drugs and products

Of course, more and more doctors are seeing the light over time because one cannot ignore the facts forever - the HCG Diet works like nothing else and each person that does it successfully (virtually 100% of everyone that tries it) becomes a walking billboard for his/her friends and family to see how dramatic fat loss can be achieved on the HCG Diet Protocol.

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