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Is HCG the magic pill for weight loss?
Obesity is a very common disorder, shortening the lifespan of millions of people around the world. In the USA, 65% of the adult population is overweight. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called obesity an epidemic. This epidemic now has reached a worldwide proportions, and society faces a problem that will cause more suffering, disease, and death than any other plague over the last 300 years. Individuals who tend to gain weight around the abdomen are at higher risk than people of healthy weight for serious medical conditions such as high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, gallbladder disease, and different cancers.
We have all watched many popular diet plans come and go, but a successful diet plan needs to be easy to follow, shows rapid, measureable weight loss, and helps to lose fat, not muscle. It must be safe, and the plan must allow for long-term weight control. Human Chorionic Gonadropin (HCG) is increasingly popular as a weight-loss supplement.
Is HCG the possible key?
HCG is a glycoprotein produced naturally in the human body mostly during pregnancy, first by the embryo itself and then by the placenta (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1973). In the 1950s A.T.W. Simeon, while studying calorie-deficient pregnant women and Froich’s Syndrome (“fat boys” with pituitary problems), claimed that both lost fat rather than lean muscle tissue if treated with low-dose HCG. He reasoned that HCG must be programming the hypothalamus in pregnant women in order to protect the developing fetus by promoting mobilization and consumption of abnormal, excessive fat stores. While practicing at the Salvador Mundi International Hospital in Rome, Italy, he recommended low-dose daily injections of HG in combination with a customized high protein, low carbohydrate/fat, ultra-low calorie diet. The protocol resulted in the loss of fat without the loss of lean tissue. Simeon published his results, titled Pounds & Inches-A New Approach to Obesity.
Anybody will lose weight on a low calorie diet, right?
In general, such a low calorie diet an result in low energy levels, weakness, and dizziness. But, when combined with HCG not only do you lose targeted fat instead of muscle, but there is little to no hunger as well as increase energy and mood throughout the diet.
How much can I expect to lose?
Persons using the HCG plus VLCD protocol tend to lose one to one & a half pounds per day of subcutaneous fat, are less irritable, and feel better than on a low calorie diet alone.
What are the side effects?
Because HCG is a prescription medicine, treatment with HCG should be supervised carefully by a healthcare professional. Although reported side-effects are minimal, patients must be monitored. Because many disease are directly related to excess weight, individuals taking other medicines may require dose adjustments as their weight changes.
Can a pharmacist prescribe HCG?
No pharmacist cannot prescribe HCG. However, since your physician my not.
