Despite its seeming recent popularity, the HCG weight loss method has a history going back over sixty years. It is rooted in research carried out in India during the 1940s by a British endocrinologist, Dr. A.T.W. Simeons. His program, known today as “Dr. Simeons’ Protocols,” has become the basis of the most effective weight loss treatment yet developed.
About Dr. Simeons
A.T.W. Simeons attended the prestigious University of Heidelberg Medical School in the years just following the First World War, graduating with honors before going on to specialize in endocrinology. After completing his post-graduate studies, he took up a post at a hospital in Hamburg, Germany, where tropical diseases were studied and treated.
His interest in diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and leprosy took him to Africa in the late 1920s. In 1931, he traveled to Mumbai (Bombay) India, where he spend eighteen years studying and treating patients with thyroid disorders that had lead to morbid obesity.
In the course of his research, Dr. Simeons came to some interesting conclusions about the nature of obesity. When he administered small amounts of a pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) to his obese patients, he found that it caused significant weight reduction. A few years after leaving India, Dr. Simeons published his findings. He concluded that obesity was in fact an abnormal state brought about by numerous factors. These factors could be genetic, the result of dietary choices, the demands of modern society, or any combination of these.
Dr. Simeons realized that
“…obesity in all its many forms is due to an abnormal functioning of some
part of the body and that every ounce of abnormally accumulated fat is always
the result of the same disorder of certain regulatory mechanisms. Persons
suffering from this particular disorder will get fat regardless of whether they
eat excessively, normally or less than normal. A person who is free of the
disorder will never get fat, even if he frequently overeats.”
( from Pounds and Inches, 1954)
How The HCG Diet Works
When used in conjunction with the Low Calorie Diet, HCG works to facilitate weight loss in two ways.
First, it re-regulates the hypothalamus gland, which controls the body’s metabolism. When calories are reduced under “normal” circumstances, the hypothalamus draws nutrients from the most readily available sources of nutrition namely, lean muscle tissue and structural fat, such as the viscera that protects the internal organs. Only when these have been used up will excess belly and hip fat known as adipose be consumed.
Unfortunately, by that point the dieter is so weak and discouraged that s/he gives up. HCG forces the hypothalamus to utilize adipose as an alternate food source.
HCG also breaks down adipose into a form that can be more readily consumed when a minimum of calories are ingested.
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