The two different methods of receiving HCG for the HCG diet can sometimes confuse prospective dieters.  What’s the difference between HCG diet drops and HCG injections, and is one method better than the other?

Are Injections Better?
The easiest answer is no, one method is not better than the other. Really, it’s a matter of personal preference, whether you would rather give yourself a shot (or go to your doctor to get one) everyday. Alternatively, would you rather simply put some drops under your tongue three times a day.

Older Doesn’t Mean Better

It’s true that one method is older than the other, but especially in the medical world, older does not usually mean better.  Tried and true, perhaps.  But that doesn’t mean that improvements couldn’t and shouldn’t be made on old methods.

Think of people with vision impairments.  For hundreds of years, glasses suited their purposes.  Maybe they didn’t love their glasses, but it was preferable to not being able to see.

Then, contacts were invented.  Miraculous!  You could see without having something sitting on your face all the time.  But the first contacts were hard, non-permeable lenses, which tended to be very hard to adjust to and rough on the eyes.

Then came soft, permeable lenses that were easier to wear but still had to be replaced once a year.  Improving upon these lenses were the disposable kind that could be thrown away every couple of weeks.  Now, a lot of people get laser surgery and do away with glasses and contacts altogether.

Some people do still choose to wear glasses, of course, just like some people choose to get HCG injections.  But most spectacle-wearers would probably assent that people who wear contacts see just as well, if not better.  Similarly, people who take the HCG drops get the same results, if not better results.  There are no needles involved, and it’s easy to take the drops with you and incorporate them into your daily life.  In our modern world, the drops make more sense.

While searching for an effective method of weight loss, you may have come across HCG diet drops.  HCG is a human hormone found in all people, but in greater quantities in pregnant women.  It facilitates the metabolism of fat into energy- a process normally sped up in pregnant women.  The diet consists of a low calorie meal plan paired with the actual hormone.  There are several methods of taking the hormone, but drops are the most common.  HCG diet drops are placed under the tongue in keeping with the diet guidelines, and are surprisingly effective.

How the Diet Works
The HCG diet is a short-term diet, the full course of which normally last no more than six weeks or so.  Protocol dictates an ultra low calorie diet to minimize the creation of fat, and the ingestion of the hormone, which burns the fat you already have.  Of course, the effectiveness of any diet should be measured in fat loss instead of weight loss, and HCG drops top that list.

When taken as a part of the diet protocol, the HCG hormone helps the body melt the fat and transform it into energy the body can use.  It is without doubt that the drops are effective, as it is a naturally occurring substance.  Increasing the levels of HCG in your system simply makes the process work a little faster.

As compared to other methods of delivery, the drops are one of the most direct ways of getting the hormone into your system. Simply place the drops under your tongue, and it finds its way into your bloodstream.

When the diet was introduced in 1954, protocol required injections of the hormone, which is the est and most direct way, but the drops have the advantage of not requiring a doctor, and being painless- a big plus for a great deal of people.