What is hCG?
HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, which is a hormone known to both male and female. In the female this hormone is primarily made during pregnancy. HCG triggers the hypothalamus in the brain to mobilize the mother’s stored fat for energy to help sustain the pregnancy. HCG affects the metabolic functions in both men and women, so that fat can be mobilized and transferred into the blood stream. When someone is on the hCG diet, and they are on a low calorie diet, the metabolic process is to release pools of stored fat from the “locked fat reserves” (which is often the key problem with obesity). These locked fat reserves are toxic to your system, and store significant amounts of toxins within the cellular structure. This “toxic overload,” which is all too common today, is the reason why so many overweight people cannot lose weight and keep it off. The excessive reserve of locked fat makes it very difficult to be successful, and to see positive changes in the body while on a traditional diet.
It is important to understand that the only way hCG will work, is when someone is utilizing the very low calorie diet protocol designed and tested by Dr. Simeons. If the body of a male or female is not getting the calories they need for “fat storage,” while using the hCG and a very low calorie diet, then the hCG will trigger the release of fat from the body for energy. Those who have been on the diet report that they have excellent energy, enhanced mood, very few cravings or feelings of hunger, and accelerated changes in their body fat and body shaping. It is typical that people feel deprived, hungry, irritable, anxious, and often very weak on a very-low-calorie diet without the hCG, but with this supplement, the typical person does not feel this way during treatment.
Other diets that do not focus on fat release from locked stores, will cause you to lose muscle mass (causing a further reduction in your metabolism). Losing body fat and restoring muscle, as you will do on the hCG diet; your metabolism will be re-set and corrected. Losing toxic body fat with hCG will additionally help you to overcome many medical issues such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritic pain, body pain syndromes - such as fibromyalgia, often improve dramatically, and in more recent studies hCG helped to lower ones risk for breast cancer.
How does it work?
HCG is a natural hormone/protein substance that is intended to help burn off unneeded excess fat on your thighs, hips, belly, and upper arms and changes the way you eat. HCG modifies the way you eat and changes your appetite via the hypothalamus.
The hCG drops that are used in our program are homeopathic, so they are safe and have virtually no side effects. HCG has been around for over 50 years, so the wealth of information concerning hCG and the human body is abundant and well documented.
The theory on the biochemical mechanisms of action of hCG is as follows: At the base of our brains is a small, nut-sized gland known as the hypothalamus. This gland regulates our overall metabolism, which is how our body uses energy in food. Under normal conditions, when our bodies are deprived of food the hypothalamus responds by slowing down our metabolism in order to conserve resources, i.e. fat stores. This is why most traditional diets fail. HCG works with the hypothalamus in such a way that when caloric intake is cut to a bare minimum, our bodies are forced to make up the difference by consuming fat stores. Since most of us require between 1,500-2,000 calories a day and the hCG diet protocol calls for no more than 500, your body will burn up to 1,000 calories a day in order to maintain normal metabolism.
HCG is not a sex hormone. Its action is identical in men, women, and children, and in those cases in which the sex-glands no longer function due to old age or their surgical removal. In an indirect way via the anterior pituitary, hCG regulates menstruation and facilitates conception, but it never masculinizes a woman or feminizes a man.”
