There are a lot of personal blogs accessible by any Internet user that document results of an individual navigating an HCG based program. And they might make it sound perfect. They’ll probably even recommend HCG kits online specifically. But be careful. Don’t be confused by the many, many, many different recommendations by individuals out there. While the Internet makes finding things easy…the difficult part is making sure you found exactly what you want.

Taking one stranger’s word as a solid referral can be a big mistake. Make sure that you don’t accept a recommendation without doing some research of your own as well. As is appropriate in any industry you can always depend upon the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to keep records of negative situations. If you are an avid online social media participant…put a call out for comments and suggestions on any companies you find offering HCG kits online.

Next stop is your favorite search engine. Don’t just look at what they want you to look at. Look at what else is out there online about their company. Keep in mind that anybody can put something “out there” on the Internet, but if you run across a lot of negative mentions in different areas of the web…you’ve been warned.

And always check out the company’s website. Don’t just go there when you decide to buy. Get on their site and run through it. Visit the different areas: the frequently asked questions, the about us page, any free information on the topic at hand. It will give you a good idea of who you’re dealing with before you decide to buy from them. Nothing’s worse than finding out AFTER a purchase that you bought something from a company that you can’t even get in touch with.

Carefully consider any HCG kits online that you discover. Make sure the kit is fully outlined in detail so you know exactly what you are getting. Ask questions if you are unsure of the product/s included. If you question the validity of the product ask for a guarantee. The effects of HCG are phenomenal. Make sure you end up with one of the HCG kits online that actually provide you with the desired results (1 to 2 pounds of weight loss per day on average).

One company that will exceed all your expectations is HCG Diet Direct. There aren’t any HCG kits online that will offer better results for a better price or offer a higher quality product than theirs. They offer homeopathic HCG weight loss formula in combination with all the information and tools necessary to navigate the intense diet. Feel free to check them out. They’ll pass inspection!

Getting Started

If you are new to HCG Diet Direct, we suggest you begin by going to our home page, where you can download you own copy of Dr. Simeons’ research free of charge. The paper is entitled Pounds and Inches: a New Approach to Obesity. Although it was written almost sixty years ago, the facts that Dr. Simeons discovered are surprising even today – and are rarely taken into consideration by most doctors.

Why the Resistance?

Change is always threatening to a certain subset of the population, and scientists are no exception. Dr. Simeons’ findings have always encountered some resistance to those in the medical profession who insist that obesity is simply the result of overindulgence and weak character.

Haven’t we all known (and resented) people who can eat and eat as much as they like and never gain a pound? Conversely, isn’t there at least one person in your life who packs on pounds no matter how little they eat?

Perhaps you are one of them.

Dr. Simeons realized long ago that the causes of obesity were far from simple; there are in fact many causes, and they can be complicated. Glandular disorders (which he was a specialist in the treatment of, incidentally), genetic predispostion, culture (in some societies, fat is a sign of status and fertility), even the nature of agriculture – which changed our natural eating patterns dramatically and forced us into ways of eating and the consumption of food that is quite at odds with our evolutionary biology – have all had some effect on how much people weigh.

Restoring Balance

In essence, we become fat because something is out of balance. The purpose of the HCG diet is to restore that balance and allow our own innate fat burning mechanisms to eliminate those stored calories around the belly, hips and thighs.

Because this occurs naturally on the HCG weight loss program, people not only see amazing results (some lose up to two pounds a day, though one pound is more realistic – and still very impressive!), they feel more energized, with none of the weakness, fatigue and moodiness that usually accompanies a low calorie diet.

Try It for Yourself

As long as you are not pregnant or nursing and are in good health otherwise, you should have no problem losing weight on the oral HCG treatment for obesity. We believe this to be the most effective and economical way to reduce weight and maintain good health – and you’ll find that many satisfied dieters who have shared their testimonials with us are in agreement.

Therein lies the tale.

Dr. Simeons Treats the “Fat Boys”

Dr. Albert Simeons was a gifted endocrinologist who lived between 1900 and 1976. A graduate of the prestigious University of Heidelberg School of Medicine, Dr. Simeons developed an interest in tropical diseases; in fact, among medical scientists, he is best remembered for developing a diagnostic tool for malaria.

His interest in diseases such as malaria and dengue fever led him to sub-Saharan Africa for a time, and then, in 1930, to a hospital in Mumbai, India, where he spent the next two decades of his career.

Endocrinology was a relatively new branch of medicine in those days. Research had shown that when injected with a hormone produced by pregnant women, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, pre-pubescent rats would experience rapid sexual maturity. Eventually, this became a treatment for Froelich’s Disease, a pituitary condition that causes the symptoms described above.

When Dr. Simeons administered this treatment however, he noticed another result: significant weight loss. Over the next several years, Dr. Simeons came to many startling conclusions about the nature of obesity, most of which even today fly in the face of commonly accepted wisdom on the subject.

Obesity is Not Simple

It is common, and even popular to blame the current epidemic of obesity on laziness, over-indulgence and lack of willpower – but Dr. Simeons realized early on that obesity was in fact the result of many complex variables, including genetic and societal factors. One of the most interesting conclusions had to do with the nature of agrarian-based society:

“In pre-Neolithic times, man ate only when he was hungry and only as
much as he required too still the pangs of hunger. Moreover, much of his
food was raw and all of it was unrefined.”

Then, about 10,000 years ago, the development of agriculture and its labor demands changed everything:

“The institution of regular meals meant that man had to eat more
than his body required at the moment of eating so as to tide him
over until the next meal. Food rendered easily digestible suddenly
flooded his body with nourishment of which he was in no need at
the moment. Somehow, somewhere this surplus had to be stored.”

- From Pounds and Inches: A New Approach to Obesity by A.T.W. Simeons

Learn More

At our home page here at HCG Diet Direct, you can download the entire manuscript of Pounds and Inches free of charge. This is the 1954 paper in which Dr. Simeons discusses all of his findings about obesity and its many causes, as well as how the HCG hormone can be used to address the issue of fast and effective weight loss.

The “Growing” Problem

At one time, obesity was not all that common. It wasn’t unusual for many folks to put on a few extra pounds as they got older, but morbid obesity was rare and usually caused by a thyroid disorder rather than overindulgence.

Over the last 30-40 years however, obesity has become almost an epidemic to the point that over 64% of all adults in the U.S. are now overweight. The reasons for this are not clear, and experts do not always agree on the causes. Indeed, it may be due to several different factors, as Dr. Albert Simeons believed when researching the subject back in the 1940s. Some causes that modern dietitians believe are behind the statistics are:

• less time for physical activity due to increased work demands in sedentary occupations
• larger portions
• relatively inexpensive food
• increase in “stress” eating
• addition of high-fructose corn syrup to processed foods
• aggressive marketing of “junk foods”

Dr. Simeons came up with some other ideas however – and if you haven’t read his paper Pounds and Inches (available for free download on our home page), you may be very surprised at what he discovered.

We’re Primates, After All

According to Dr. Simeons, the modern causes of obesity go back several thousand years, and have to do with the most significant development in human history.

Agriculture changed everything. Up until about 10,000 years ago, humans were foragers, hunters and gatherers – meaning that their diets were limited to what could be obtained from the local environment. Foods such as grains and legumes must be cultivated, so these did not exist in the Stone Age diet.

Additionally, Stone Age peoples tended to retain the same eating patterns as their chimpanzee and gorilla relatives, nibbling on small amounts throughout the day.  When humans learned to cultivate crops, the nature of work demands changed those patterns of eating to what we are used to today – and introduced new foods into the human diet.

The short story is that over the centuries, this has caused some imbalances in the human system that lead to obesity in certain people.

Restoring the Balance with HCG Drops

When working with thyroid patients in India during the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Simeons made a remarkable discovery:  administering small amounts of the hormone HCG caused weight loss in these overweight individuals when nothing else worked.

HCG Diet Direct is pleased to be able to offer customers who have been struggling with weight issues the opportunity to restore the balance with our line of HCG products. You can order these today through out secure website. We also offer additional services to help you in getting the most out of the HCG program, including online consultations with our own staff physician and access to a large database of information on Dr. Simeons’ protocols, sample menus, recipes and more.

Some of these glands are probably familiar to you. The pituitary and the thyroid, which control growth and metabolism, are probably the best known outside the medical profession. Certain hormones are also probably familiar to you.

For example, if you enjoy parachuting and bungee jumping, you may very well be addicted to the hormone known as adrenaline. This biochemical substance is released by the adrenal gland when we feel as if we are in a life-threatening situation, heightening our perceptions and giving us the “energy rush” we need in order to fight or run.

There are also sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen, which (among other things) trigger the development of “secondary sex characteristics” such as a low voice and body and facial hair in boys and breasts and menstruation in girls.

In essence, hormones are biochemical substances that control a range of bodily functions.
HCG, or Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, is one such hormone.

The Functions of HCG

The primary function of HCG is to protect the environment in which a fetus gestates, making certain that the uterus is healthy and that the mother’s system does not inadvertently interfere with the fetus’ early development during the first trimester. Modern pregnancy tests are designed to detect the presence of HCG in a woman’s urine.  However is should be noted that homeopathic HCG will not result in a positive reading if placed on a pregnancy test.

In medicine and health care, HCG is used to treat fertility issues in both men and women by stimulating the production of sperm and eggs respectively. Most recently, it has been discovered that cancer cells excrete small amounts of HCG. This hormone is thus a potential marker that can help oncologists to detect the presence of tumors that might otherwise be difficult to diagnose.

What Dr. Simeons Found

During the treatment of patients with pituitary gland dysfunction, which had caused extreme obesity, Dr. Simeons found that by administering injections of small amounts of the HCG hormone, these patients were able to lose weight when put on a low calorie diet. This was something that the low calorie diet alone was unable to achieve.

In later years, Dr. Simeons published his findings in a paper entitled Pounds and Inches – a New Approach to Obesity. That paper is available in .pdf format on our home page.

Those who still have doubts should take a look at the video testimonials that are available on our site. Still, it may help to understand something about the science behind the “miracle” – which is not so “miraculous” once you understand how hormones operate in the body.

It’s really just simple biology.

What Hormones Are, What They Do

You’ve probably heard a great deal about hormones, but don’t really know what they’re about. A hormone is a biochemical substance, meaning that it consists of a chain of organic molecules that form amino acids. The primary function of a hormone is communication. It carries messages from one cell to another.

All multi-cellular life forms on earth produce hormones, including plants. Among animals, hormones are excreted either from endocrine glands or specialized cells, and are transported by the bloodstream. Once released, a hormone will seek out and bind with a cellular receptor that is specific to that particular hormone, causing the cell to carry out certain functions.

Some of the hormones that may be familiar include:

• insulin: excreted by the pancreas, this regulates glucose levels
• oxytocin: regulates circadian rhythms and body temperature
• testosterone: the “male” hormone that stimulates the growth of muscle and secondary sex characteristics (body and facial hair, penis size, deepening voice)
• estrogen: the “female” hormone, regulating fertility

HCG, or human chorionic gonadotropin, is a hormone that is excreted by the fetus during gestation. It has two primary functions:

•    provide a viable environment in which the fetus can develop
•    Suppress the mother’s immune system and prevent it from attacking (rejection might otherwise be a problem because of the father’s DNA).

In addition, HCG protects the fetus in the event that the mother is undernourished by preventing her system from leeching nutrients.

During his years in India, Dr. Simeons also discovered that HCG can affect the part of the brain responsible for metabolism as well as break down the fat content locked up in cells, making it available to the body as fuel.

This Is The Key

When combined with the Very Low Calorie Diet, HCG causes ongoing fat consumption, regardless of your level of activity. Even when at rest, your body requires a minimum number of calories in order to function. Since these calories won’t be coming from the food you eat, the deficit must be made up by burning excess fat. HCG is what makes this possible.

One of the big advantages of the HCG diet is that it leaves muscle tissue intact – so there are no loose folds of baggy skin to deal with afterwards.

It is important to follow the protocols established by Dr. Simeons closely and pay strict attention to the required diet and menus. This understood people have found it possible to lose as much as two pounds a day while on the HCG diet.

Drawbacks of a Clinic
Weight loss clinics are not the best way of effecting a real and true lifestyle change anyway. Truth be told, a lifestyle change is really what the HCG diet is all about.  Weight loss clinics take you out of your life, out of your usual environment.  If you’re trying to make new habits that you can incorporate into your life, you need to be in your life to figure out what’s going to work and what’s not.

A weight loss clinic may be all well and good if you’re a movie star.  They’re usually the ones who can afford them. This may be stereotyping a little here, but they don’t seem as tied to structures and schedules as the rest of us are.

Real Life Breaks In
Maybe that’s because money and fame come with a certain degree of power. Power to have a little more say in how your days are spent.  Most of the rest of us are more subject to our employers, our kids’ schedules, our communities in general.  We have to report to work at a certain time, eat lunch at a certain time, and pick the kids up from school or daycare or soccer practice at a certain time, and so on and so on.

Incorporating healthy habits can still be done, but it requires some degree of planning ahead.  The best way of figuring out what you can reasonably work into your day is trial and error, I think.  The HCG diet provides guidelines to help you, and it’s open-ended enough to fit into any schedule if it’s something you truly want to do.

The Research

Dr. A.T.W. was born in the U.K. and went on to complete his medical degree at the University of Heidelberg, which is still home to one of Europe’s premier medical schools. He graduated with honors and went on to study tropical diseases – an interest which eventually took him to Mumbai, India.

During his time in Mumbai, Dr. Simeons had the opportunity to study patients whose thyroid dysfunction had caused extreme obesity. In the course of his research on these patients, Simeons came to some startling, yet logical conclusions regarding the nature of obesity.

He eventually published his findings in 1954 in a paper entitled Pounds and Inches.

Dr Simeons’ Research Conclusions

Obesity, Dr. Simeons discovered, is actually an unnatural condition that is caused by a number of different factors. These factors fall into two categories:

• genetics and heredity
• diet and lifestyle

Paleontology and anthropology provides abundant evidence that among many cultures at various times, full-figured women were considered to be desirable mates. Large, voluptuous hips and breasts were considered signs of fecundity. Because of natural selection, these tendencies toward fat were passed down through the generations.

The other side of the equation has to do with the changes wrought by agriculture. As hunter-gatherers, humans were similar to chimpanzees and other primates. They tended to nibble small amounts of food throughout the day as natural hunger dictated. These foods consisted largely of roots, berries, leaves, insects and meat.

The labor demands of the farm made this impractical; suddenly, humans were confined to set, widely spaced mealtimes. It was necessary to ingest more calories in one sitting that were required right away. In addition, agriculture introduced new foods, such as grains, legumes and dairy foods, for which the primate digestive system had not evolved.

The result was that the excess calories wound up being stored around the waist and on the hips as adipose, an energy-rich but largely inaccessible form of fat.

To find out more about how the HCG diet makes this fat accessible on a low calorie diet, check out the large database of HCG-related articles on this site.

The Medical Science Behind the HCG Diet

Dr. A.T.W. Simeons was a specialist in the study of endocrinology. This branch of medicine is concerned with the body’s “ductless” glands, such as the thyroid and hypothalamus. The latter plays an important role in metabolism and how one’s body utilizes energy sources.

When Simeons was working in India on the staff of a Mumbai hospital in the 1930s and 1940s, he had an opportunity to observe the effects of HCG when administered to overweight patients suffering from a particular thyroid dysfunction that had caused them to become dangerously obese. Small doses of this hormone, derived from the urine of pregnant women, resulted in significant weight reduction in these patients.

Dr. Simeons on the Nature of Obesity

In 1954, Dr. Simeons published a paper entitled Pounds and Inches, in which he described obesity as a pathological condition due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors, not simply the result of overeating. According to Dr. Simeons, certain people are predisposed to weight gain, regardless of how much or little they eat, while others can “pack it away” and never gain a pound.

He concluded that part of the problem was the absence of the human chorionic gonadotropin hormone (HCG). It is in plentiful supple during childhood and adolescence, but largely gone by adulthood reintroducing HCG into the endocrine system helps to restore balance and eliminate excess pounds.

Why a Low Calorie Diet is Necessary

HCG does not work by itself. It is not a “magic bullet.” Rather, it causes physiological changes in body chemistry that allows weight loss to occur under certain conditions.

When calories are reduced under normal conditions, the body will resist these weight loss efforts in every way possible. Instead of excess fat disappearing, the first to go is lean muscle tissue, followed by structural fat. The excess fat, known as adipose, is consumed only when everything else has been used and by that time, most dieters are so weak and discouraged that they understandably give up on the program.

The problem lies in the biochemical nature of adipose. This is a form of fat that is not easily broken down. HCG helps to break down these deposits so that the energy stored in the fat molecules can be used first in making up the difference under a low calorie regimen.

HCG also helps to re-regulate the hypothalamus gland, which controls bodily metabolism. The hypothalamus is like the body’s “thermostat.” When fuel (calories) is in short supply, this gland reacts by slowing down metabolic processes.  HCG prevents this from happening and forces the hypothalamus to obtain energy from adipose first rather than last.

By combining Dr. Simeons’ Very Low Calorie Diet with HCG, HCG weight loss programs can work where other diets do not.

Although it may seem to be magic (dropping one to two pounds a day can certainly seem miraculous), Dr. Simeons’ weight loss method is based on solid science.

Origins of HCG

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG for short) is a natural by-product of gestation. It is secreted by the fetus during its development and protects the fetus in two ways:

• should the mother be undernourished, it prevents her system from leeching nutrients

• it prevents the mother’s immune system from mistaking the father’s DNA for a “foreign” pathogen (like a transplanted organ)

Dr. Simeons used the hormone on patients who were morbidly obese due to a dysfunctional thyroid. He discovered that small amounts of this hormone could actually cause weight loss.

How It Works

To one’s bodily systems, which are controlled by the brain but have no consciousness of their own, there is no difference between a deliberate reduction in calories through a low-calorie diet and a genuine famine caused by external factors (such as drought or pestilence). In either case, these systems will adjust themselves in such a way as to conserve fat reserves.

This is all very well and good in a state of nature, but it makes most forms of dieting exceptionally difficult. The mechanism by which bodily systems and their function are fueled is controlled by a small gland in our brains, called the hypothalamus. It is like a combination fuel switch and throttle. It determines which fuel sources are used and the rate at which these are utilized.

So, imagine you are driving a car with two reserve fuel tanks – one which holds lubricating oil and the other jellied gasoline. You are out in the desert and the primary tank is almost empty.  You can run the motor on lubricating oil for awhile, but it won’t run very well, and that oil is really needed to protect the engine components. The jellied gasoline is extremely volatile – but because it is in jelled form, the fuel injectors cannot use it. Therefore, the fuel switch automatically goes to the oil tank, then cuts way back on the accelerator so that the car is barely moving.

This is essentially what happens in your body on a low-calorie diet. The fat deposits (adipose) are like jellied gasoline – they are rich in energy, but in a form that the body cannot readily use.

What HCG does is: (A) breaks up these adipose deposits, turning them into a liquid that the body can burn, and (B) reprograms the hypothalamus to access the adipose first rather than turning to muscle tissue and viscera.

The result is that normal metabolism is maintained, even when calories are in short supply.