HCG diet plans are based on principles that were developed sixty years ago as the result of research, treatments and study of obese patients in India. These patients suffered from thyroid disorders that had caused them to become morbidly obese. In the course of this research, Dr. A.T.W. Simeons came up with very interesting, and even startling conclusions about the nature of obesity and its treatment.
What Is HCG
The “Human Chorionic Gonadotropin” hormone is a byproduct of the gestation process. During pregnancy, it protects the fetus and helps to create a viable environment in which fetal development can take place.
While humans retain a large amount of this hormone in childhood, it is generally depleted by the time adulthood is reached.
During the early and mid-twentieth century, Dr. Simeons worked in India and had an opportunity to observe patients with thyroid conditions that had caused them to become morbidly obese. He treated these patients with small doses of HCG and discovered that the treatment actually caused these patients to drop pounds when nothing else worked.
In 1954, Dr. Simeons published his findings in a paper entitled Pounds and Inches. According to his research, obesity is not a natural condition at all, but rather an abnormality that is due to a number of different factors both genetic and environmental. For reasons that are not altogether clear, some people are predisposed to fat accumulation regardless of how little they eat, while others can eat as much as they please and never gain a pound.
How HCG Restores Balance
If obesity is primarily the result of imbalance, the HCG diet can restore the balance. Used according to Dr. Simeons’ protocols and a Very Low Calorie diet, HCG restores proper balance by first making these excess fat deposits available as an energy source. Then refocusing the hypothalamus gland (that part of the brain responsible for the control of metabolic processes) toward utilizing this energy source.
Thus, when you reduce your caloric intake to 25% of the amount required to sustain normal metabolic levels, your hypothalamus is forced to make up the deficit from fat.
Learn More
Elsewhere on this site and in many earlier blog posts, you will find several pieces dealing with the fascinating history of HCG and Dr. Simeon’s story. Just use the search function here at HCG Diet Direct and enter keywords relating to any HCG topic you want to learn about.
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