You’re a guy, and you’re considering using these HCG drops to lose weight. But you’re a little concerned, because you know that HCG is actually the hormone produced by women during pregnancy. So how does it affect men?
HCG Safe for Men
Don’t worry. Oral HCG is not going to affect your masculinity in any way. The small amount used for weight loss won’t mimic pregnancy. All human tissue actually contains HCG at some point. HCG works with the hypothalamus gland to help develop our reproductive organs during puberty, male or female. But we’re given our lifetime supply when we’re born, and once it’s gone, it’s gone. In this day and age, it tends to go faster due to the chemicals in our foods.
As far as the HCG diet goes, men actually tend to have more success with it than women do. But to help set your mind at ease, let me tell you about another use of HCG. It’s a form of testosterone therapy, an alternative to the steroids that can have negative effects on the body; HCG stimulates the testes and increases natural testosterone production.
HCG therapy can sometimes result in the continuation of increased testosterone production even after the treatment period has ended in cases where low production was due to former steroid use or other therapies that left the body unable to produce on its own. Using HCG in conjunction with hormone replacement therapy prevents the endocrine system from stopping the natural production of testosterone, or testicular atrophy.
In these ways, HCG as used as testosterone therapy reminds me of HCG as used as weight loss therapy. When HCG is used for weight loss it actually helps reset the metabolism to burn excess fat instead of storing it, similarly to how testosterone production can be raised on a continuous basis.
With the diet, HCG keeps the body from burning muscle and needed fat. With testosterone therapy, it prevents testicular atrophy. It sounds like HCG, whatever it’s being used for, is all about making our bodies function on a higher level, naturally.
