In the world of weight loss, people are always looking for the next new thing, and in more recent years, many people are turning to natural supplements to help them lose weight.
One such increasingly popular, and somewhat controversial, weight-loss aide is HCG. HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin, and it is a protein hormone that is usually found in the placenta of pregnant women.
The purpose of HCG in pregnancy is to encourage the production of progesterone, and HCG is also a peptide, which is secreted into the blood stream to aide in the endocrine functions of the body.
The first person to suggest HCG has a weight-loss aide was A. T. W. Simeons, a British endocrinologist who was studying pregnant women in India and children who were overweight because of pituitary gland problems.
Both groups of people were eating calorie-deficient diets, and Simeons discovered that when treated with low doses of HCG, they all lost fat rather than muscle.
When many people go on an ultra-low calorie diet, they find that they don't lose fat easily because their metabolism slows and they lose lean muscle mass first.
Simeons transferred the information he learned from the results of his studies in India to his weight-loss patients and found that when put on an ultra-low calorie diet (sometimes only 500 calories a day), HCG treatments helped his patients lose fat without losing muscle.
Proponents of HCG treatments (which can be either ingested or injected) have documented that HCG resets the hypothalamus, which causes the body to burn stored fat calories instead of ingested fat calories.
The body receives the calories it needs through these stored fat calories, which reduces a person's need to eat very many calories a day.
Many patients of HCG treatments have claimed to feel full despite their ultra-low calorie diets and did not experience a lowering of their resting metabolic rate.
In today's world of weight loss, taking herbal or homeopathic supplements to support dieting and exercise is quite popular, and the protein hormone HCG is perhaps one of the most popular weight-loss treatments today.
It has been used as a weight-loss aide for about 50 years, and many have claimed to successfully lost weight without losing muscle or lowering their metabolism with HCG.
However, because of the ultra-low calorie diet that is necessary for HCG treatments to be effective, only those who are committed to the program usually lose weight.
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Your HCG (http://yourhcg.com/)HCG helps to burn the "mobile fat"; that is the fat that is stored around the hips, thighs, belly and upper arms. Art Gib is a freelance writer.
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