The HCG DIet: A Diet or a Treatment?The HCG diet is based upon a hormone known as Human Chorionic Gonadotropin which is a product of the placenta of pregnant women. One of its functions is to promote the conversion of the body's stored fat into energy for the developing fetus. In a nutshell, the idea of giving you shots of HCG is to make this happen when you are not pregnant, and convert your fat into energy. This is exactly what happens when you diet or exercise and your fat stores have to be used to generate the blood glucose needed for cellular respiration: the process by which glucose in converted to ATP energy in the mitochondria of your body cells. Fat is just another carbohydrate source of glucose and ultimately energy. Fat is your body's way of storing excess glucose until it is needed when your diet is low in carbohydrate. If that time never comes, and you continue consuming carbohydrates in the form of sugars, fats, starches and even excessive proteins (made of carbohydrate and amino acid) then your metabolism will continually convert the excess over what is expended in exercise and needed by your metabolism (energy for digestion, heartbeat, breathing etc) into fatty tissue. It will only be changed into protein and muscle if you exercise your muscles so that your biochemistry can change carbohydrates and amino acids into fresh proteins to build new muscle tissue. Otherwise it is law of biochemistry that it must be converted to fat and stored under your skin and around your vital organs. It is the latter which is so dangerous to your life. Likewise, it will only be reduced if you use up more energy (calories) than you consume.
At first glance there appears to be little wrong with using HCG shots to accelerate fat loss, and the human chorionic gonadotropin injections are also generally given along with a shot of Vitamin B12. This vitamin is also metabolic, and helps the HCG convert fat into energy. However, does the hormone actually work this way in women that are not pregnant? There is a difference of opinion regarding this, and the HCG diet is not really a diet in the normal sense of the word - you do not eat it: you inject it. In fact, it is now believed that rather than working principally by breaking fat down into energy, the HCG diet enables users to follow a very low calorie diet much easier by suppressing the natural reaction of your body to low energy levels. The normal reaction of your body to a low calorie intake of less than 1000 daily is for it to begin to slow down your metabolism so that it needs less energy. The HCG diet suppresses your appetite so that you do not feel hungry when taking a low calorie diet and your body continues to burn fat and metabolize at its normal rate, when normally it would be slowing down. In other words, HCG is an appetite suppressant. The result is a weight reduction through the burning of excess fat because your body is not reacting naturally to a low level of carbohydrate intake in your food. The natural reaction would be to force you eat more, but rather than do that your appetite is suppressed and so more of your fat reserve is used up. In some people this can be potentially dangerous, though for most people the result is their desired loss in weight and inches. It is another manifestation of the energy equation stated on my Home Page. Rather than exercising more to use up more calories than you consume, the HCG diet works by forcing you chemically to eat less so that the calories you use up normally are more than you are eating. (Note: I have since found a sublingual form of HCG which is advertised on this page. This is a healthier way to take it rather than by injection. If you are going to use HGC use it in this form.) Here also is a mixing kit for sublingual applications: Here is an HCG Mixing Kit and other HCG equipment for you to check out: Sheepra's HVG Diet Protocol Mixing Kits The injections have to be made directly into your muscle tissues for them to work, and are only available on prescription. You have to inject yourself, and be able to do it properly, so the treatment is not suitable for everybody. You can lose up to 5 lb/day but that is an unhealthy weight loss. It is important that you eat plenty of vegetables and fiber, and also drink plenty water when using the HCG diet. Nobody has been known to have suffered significant side effects from the HCG diet, as you now know is an erroneous term, and it seems to work, so there appear to be few reasons why you should not use it - unless you cannot tolerate needles! However, you are strongly recommended to refer to your own doctor or physician before using this method, and if he or she gives you the OK then you should be able to lose significant weight in a short period of time. Since the Vitamin B12 injections are available only on prescription (though not the HCG) you will likely have to refer to your doctor in any case. The HCG diet is not strictly a diet in the conventional sense of the word, and is no more than an unhealthy way of manipulating the energy equation: use more calories than you eat then you lose weight. The more healthy option is to exercise more and eat slightly less, and not take substances that suppress your appetite so you can eat next to nothing in order that you burn the fat without having exercise - the lazy woman's (or man's) way out. If, however, you are relatively inactive and are unable to exercise much for medical or physical reasons, then this could the answer to your prayers. More on the HCG diet and how you can use it to lose weight will be added to the site later along with a link to the supplier we believe offers the best and safest program for you. At the moment I am researching all of these I can find, since while some appear to understand the science behind the HCG diet as it is called, a large number do not and appear to misunderstand how the product they are promoting works within your body. As an honors degree qualified chemist I have no such problems. It is good for those that cannot exercise properly, and hence have to reduce their calorie intake in order to burn the fat, but perfectly fit and able people would be best to exercise more in combination with a sensible diet lower in carbohydrates. No fad diet can ever get past the energy equation: the science just does not exist, not matter how hard they try to persuade you. The HCG diet is no different in that respect: it is a shortcut for the lazy or the physically impaired (for whom it may be ideal), and no more. I have more research to carry out and will get back to you on this. Update on 16th Nov, 2010 I have found HCG now available in sublingual drops. That is a good of taking HCG and my initial reservations are now satisfied. I can now offer this product as a good way to lose weight. You have blood vessels very close to your skin underneath your tomngue, and the hcg is absorbed directly into your blood stream - so no more shots! I can now safely offer HCG to you, and this is the best source of HCG drops that I have found - and relatively inexpensive as HCG goes: HCG Weight Loss Up to 50% Off Free Shipping in USA .
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