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It's the drug of choice for competitive body builders, but thousands of people suggest Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)may also be a miracle cure for losing weight!
My middle-aged friend, Sheila was once a size nine with a penchant for onion rings and blue cheese dressing. Today, she twirls around in a size three with nary an ounce of fat, hardly ever craves junk food, and tells me she’s never been happier. After a lifetime of fad diets and bouts of bulimia, she found her dream diet during a business trip to Argentina. That’s where she discovered the "miracle" weight-loss cure of a British endocrinologist of the 1950s, Dr Albert T Simeons, who claimed that daily hCG injections would allow the subject to survive on 500 calories a day while shedding weight so fast that every two weeks you'd need a new duds. Simeons’ extensive studiesshowed that combined with a specific diet, hCG can help safely speed up weight loss. Simeons and his followers have generally not claimed that patients following a specific diet will lose more weight when receiving hCG. Yet, they have claimed that patients are less hungry and feel better because of the hCG and therefore are more likely to remain in treatment.HCG is a natural hormone produced by pregnant women found to be responsible for controlling metabolic functions that accompany pregnancy. It is believed to break down abnormal body fat, resulting in loss in inches by kick starting your metabolism and increasing the speed at which your body burns fat. It also protects the body's good fat and muscle from depletion. By protecting crucial muscle and healthy fat, it can reduce your risk of loose and sagging skin at the conclusion of your weight loss.
Although shunned by most doctors--maybe the fact that Simeons was a poor advertisement for his method. He died of weight-related coronary disease--hCG has many adherents, includingDr. Daniel Belluscio, who stated that “hCG oral administration proved to be a safe and effective procedure in obese patients.”
Since the FDA does not approve it, and it previously had to be administered by a daily injection, hCG pretty much disappeared from the public eye after a brief rage in the seventies. Then cameKevin Trudeau’s bestseller, “ The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About.” Since then, hCG became available as an easy to take sublingual (liquid) form and weight loss clinics and mail order stores tout its benefits. There are evenyouTube testimonials where you see the results through dieter’s webcams.
In order for patents to achieve long-term health and maintain weight loss, it is imperative that the majority of weight is lost in the form of lean mass. Every pound of lean mass lost reduces the body's basal metabolic rate (BMR or ability to burn calories). Therefore if the majority of the weight loss is in the form of lean mass, there is a negative affect on an individual’s ability to maintain that weight loss. The result is the phenomenon commonly known as "
yo-yo dietingEdwin Mirzabeigi, MD ofWest End Medical Aestheticsstates, “hCG is being called the weight loss cure because of its huge success. The treatment targets the areas where patients have excess fat storage and has shown proven results by rapidly and safely burning the fat.”
A typical hCG treatment should include an initial consultation visit with a physician and blood tests. Weekly weigh-in visits are recommended to keep track of the results. In order to follow the HCG plan to its fullest, you must maintain a diet of500 caloriesper day. Although following a diet with such a small amount of calories would normally be considered unhealthy, it is safe to do while taking HCG. This is because HCG helps prevent muscle mass loss. It also helps dieters retain a high level of energy while suppressing the appetite. Therefore, while it generally would not be considered safe to follow a diet with so few calories, doing so while also receiving HCG may be a safe and effective weight loss strategy.
HCG has long been used by doctors to help women that are experiencing hormonal problems. As such, it has been deemed both safe for this purpose. Unfortunately, the FDA still has not approved HCG for use as a weight loss aid since the FDAhas not been able to substanitateevidence through its research to indicate that HCG is effective for weight loss. On the other hand, thousands of people have used HCG and have successfully lost large amounts of weight in a short amount of time without gaining it back.You should always be cautious when trying weight loss drugs that are yet to be scientifically endorsed. The best way to lose weight and keep it off is to change your habits, adopt a healthy lifestyle, and exercise regularly and if you wish take weight loss supplement for a boost if you wish, but for those looking for an easy way out, hCG just might be the magic bullet you’re looking for. At least my friend Sheila seems to think so.
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