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Why Muscle Mass Is Preserved on the HCG Diet

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Picture anyone starving and you have pictured the effects of an extremely low calorie diet. These images give one a good idea of how a 500-calorie-a-day diet affects the human body. Knowing that, why would anyone in their right mind purposely restrict his or herself to such low levels called for by the HCG diet?

If you know anything about how HCG works, you understand that such a low calorie diet is necessary. But you also know that the presence of this remarkable hormone prevents one from wasting away, preserving muscle mass and good health despite the starvation level of calories.

Not only that but those who follow Dr. Simeons’ protocols carefully, normally feel very little in the way of hunger or deprivation.

Dr. Simeons’ Research and What It Revealed

Dr. Albert T.W. Simeons was an endocrinologist. This is the branch of medicine that deals with the system of “ductless” glands that among other functions produce hormones, proteins that are involved with intercellular communications and therefore control many of our physiological processes.

The primary function of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or HCG, is to protect the developing fetus during gestation. It accomplishes this in two ways:

(1)    HCG prevents the mother’s body from stealing nutrients or feeding off the fetus
(2)    it suppresses the mother’s immune system, preventing rejection

The second possibility stems from the fact that that the presence of the father’s DNA could trigger an immune response from the mother.

In pregnant women, the hormone plays a large part in maintaining the health of the fetus. While working in India during the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Simeons determined that HCG helped prevent the mother’s system from robbing the fetus of nutrients in the event she was experiencing starvation.

While studying thyroid patients in India during the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Simeons found that treatment with HCG injections could actually result in weight loss in these patients. He then came to some startling conclusions about the nature of obesity and fat.

The Real Causes

Dr. Simeons finally realized that there is no one single cause of obesity; rather, excess fat is the result of a number of different factors, all of which were related to genetics and evolutionary tendencies as well as the impact of agriculture on the human diet.

Agriculture changed the human diet in two ways: it introduced new foods into the human diet that had not been available previously, and the labor demands of the farm forced humans into new, unnatural patterns of eating. In the first place, humans began eating grains, legumes and dairy products that would not have been available in nature. In the second, humans were forced to abandon their earlier pattern of nibbling small amounts over the course of a day and take in large amounts at set times.

HCG, when combined with a low calorie diet, resets and restores metabolic balance, which in turn causes unwanted pounds to disappear almost effortlessly. To learn more about the physiological mechanisms involved, use the search function to find articles and posts on how HCG works with your own body’s natural tendencies instead of fighting them.

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HCG Diets: The History and Science

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

HCG Diets have been much in the news in recent years, but in fact, they have been around since the 1950s, when endocrinologist and HCG weight loss pioneer Dr. A.T.W. Simeons began publishing his startling research on the nature of obesity.

The Making of an Endocrinologist

Dr. Simeons was a graduate of the University of Heidelberg Medical School in the 1920s. He chose endocrinology as his specialty, which in turn led to a fascination with tropical diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and leprosy.

Simeons spent several years working at a hospital in Hamburg where the diagnosis and treatment of such diseases were the focus. In 1928, Simeons went to central Africa in order to study these diseases in their own environment. Following this, he accepted a post in India, where he spent most of the next two decades.

During his time working in a Mumbai hospital, Dr. Simeons was able to do intensive research into the effects of undernourishment  on pregnant women as well as patients who because of a defective thyroid gland had gained a great deal of weight. While these might not seem to have any connection, Dr. Simeons came to two startling conclusions:

  • The primary function of HCG was to protect the fetus, preventing the starving mother’s system from leeching nutrients
  • Administering low doses of this hormone to morbidly obese patients caused them to actually lose their excess fat.

Dr. Simeons believed that this excess fat, known as adipose, was a kind of “fuel reserve” that was locked up in a usable form should the person experience a “nutritional emergency.” What happens instead, he wrote in 1954, “is that someone suffering from obesity who attempts weight loss through a low calorie diet will first lose lean muscle tissue, followed by protective visceral fat.”  That “…only as a last resort will the Body yield its abnormal reserves,” adding that “by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned.”

This is the tragedy of those who repeatedly attempt low calorie diets that invariably fail

The Role of HCG

Dr. Simeons concluded that when HCG is reintroduced into the adult system, it recalibrates the hypothalamus gland – the part of the brain than regulates metabolic processes. It helps to unlock adipose deposits, making them available as a fuel source when calories are not otherwise available – as when eating a low calorie diet.

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Keep Muscle Mass While Losing Fat With the HCG Diet Plan

Friday, February 5th, 2010

The HCG diet plan is a vast improvement over other kinds of low calorie diet plans. Why should this be? The primary reason is that under Dr. Simeons’ protocols using HCG, you hold on to your lean muscle tissue and protective visceral fat while getting rid of the unsightly excess fat deposits around the  belly and hips – an unnatural and normally difficult to get rid of form of fat known as adipose.

The secret lies in how HCG works.

Where Adipose Comes From

Dr. A.T.W. Simeons came to the conclusion that adipose was an unnatural phenomenon that was due largely to a combination of genetics and the dramatic change that agriculture brought to the natural human lifestyle. Adipose deposits are the result of three major causes:

  • evolution (as a survival mechanism)
  • genetics (a trait passed on from parent to offspring)
  • agriculture (eating patterns and new foods)

Let’s take a look at these one at a time.

Darwin Had a Point

While it may seem counter-intuitive that Nature would come up with a survival technique that ultimately undermines our health, keep in mind that Nature does not always select the best solution. She will go with virtually any solution.

When early proto-humans and apes went their separate ways some 4-8 million years ago, this split was largely due to geologic events that cut them off from the rainforest and confined them to a hot, dry savannah where food sources were unreliable. The humans most likely to survive were those who could store life-giving fat against lean times.

Big Girls Rule, Skinny Chicks Drool

If prehistoric statues of full-breasted, large hipped women are any indication, it is likely that fat women were considered desirable mates during the Stone Age. This is still true in many parts of Africa and the South Pacific islands. When such women are preferred mates, guess what happens with their children and grandchildren?

New Foods, New Demands

Agriculture is a relatively recent phenomenon – and it not only introduced many new foods into the human diet, it changed our normal eating patterns.  It forced us to “chow down” at widely-spaced intervals, instead of nibbling as we needed to.

The body has to do something with those excess calories.

Here at this site, you’ll learn much more about how Dr. Simeons’ protocols and how the HCG diet plan can help you lose weight while keeping muscle mass.

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HCG, Dr. Simeons’ Diet and Safety of HCG

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

When you take HCG, Dr. Simeons’ diet, safety is the second most important component. If you are not following Dr. Simeons’ protocols carefully, your weight loss efforts will not succeed.

This said, many have expressed concerns about the safety of HCG and the “Very Low Calorie Diet” (VLCD). Under normal circumstances, 500 calories a day would lead to major malnutrition, starvation and ultimately, death. The human body is not meant to survive on such few calories. The only way the VLCD could work is if the body got calories some other way. That is what HCG does for you. It unlocks stored calories so you can survive.

There is simply no way to maintain normal health on so little calories – without HCG and Dr. Simeons’ protocols.

Dr. Simeons’ Story

A.T.W. Simeons was a British endocrinologist who carried out research in India over a nineteen-year period between 1930 and 1949. Part of his research involved a study of morbidly obese patients. These patients suffered from a thyroid disorder which had caused their abnormal weight gain.

Dr. Simeons discovered that  the existence of these excess fat deposits, or as it is known in medical terminology, adipose were highly unnatural – and are largely a result of the lifestyle changes imposed by the development of agriculture.

The Natural Human Diet

In a state of nature, humans are little different from other primates in terms of diet and eating patterns. Like chimpanzees and gorillas, humans are designed to browse, nibbling small amounts throughout the day. The normal diet consists primarily of tree fruit, nuts and tubers and eggs, with occasional meat or fish.

Agriculture changed all of this. In addition to the introduction of new foods such as grains and dairy products, it also required humans to eat larger meals at widely spaced intervals. Essentially, those who tilled the earth had to ingest more calories than they required at the moment – and those calories had to be stored somewhere.

Unlocking the Fuel Supply

Adipose is rich in energy-giving nutrients, but are “locked up” in a form that the body cannot readily access. When calories are suddenly reduced, the body normally starts feeding on lean muscle tissue, then the visceral fat that cushions the vital organs, destroying health before it dips into adipose reserves.

HCG reprograms the gland that controls metabolism (the hypothalamus) and enables it to access the nutrition in adipose deposits when Dr. Simeons’ diet is followed.

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Why the HCG Diet Plan Works

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

So you’ve heard of this revolutionary new HCG diet plan.  You’re probably wondering just what makes it so revolutionary.  How is it different from all those other supposed miracle diets out there?

HCG: Miracle Diet?
Well, first of all, because it is a miracle diet, according to a lot of people who had given up on miracles. People who had resigned themselves to being trapped in unhealthy bodies are losing weight. People who were literally weighed down by fat that nothing seemed able to rid them of are dropping pounds by the day.  Can you imagine the hopelessness of feeling like nothing you did was going to help your situation?

Or maybe you don’t have to imagine. Maybe you’re there in your life right now.  Maybe you’re looking for a miracle, and you’re reading this in the hope that HCG can give you one.

Obesity a Disease
The thing about obesity is that it is actually a disease.  But obese people, similarly to alcoholics, are often blamed for a condition that they are genetically predisposed to be in. This condition is usually impossible to overcome without medical or professional assistance.

However, the difference is that alcoholism can’t be cured.  Recovered alcoholics must avoid alcohol, or the disease will come back to claim them.  It’s always lurking there in the wings, waiting for them to slip up and let it back in.

When you use HCG to treat obesity, it’s a little different.  No, you shouldn’t revert back to old unhealthy nutritional habits.  But HCG does actually help to change your metabolism, so that your body won’t be so inclined to hoard unnecessary fat.  In that way, HCG could be considered a cure for obesity—and a miracle to boot.

How HCG Works
So how does HCG work?  Well, HCG is the hormone produced by pregnant women.  We’re all born with a limited amount in our bodies, but chemicals in our foods and imbalances in our digestive tracts lead to the loss of it.  Because HCG works with the hypothalamus gland to regulate fat usage and storage, once we’ve lost it, it’s harder for our bodies to perform this function.

So the HCG plan is pretty simple. It puts the HCG back in our bodies, and the HCG helps to reawaken that dormant fat-regulating mechanism.

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Why You Don’t Lose Muscle Mass on the Low Calorie HCG Diet

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Normally, on a 500 calorie diet, the human body begins to waste away. Generally, the body needs 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day to survive. Otherwise, malnutrition sets in. However, this does not happen on the HCG diet, even though Dr. Simeons’ protocols require a diet of only 500 calories a day – starvation under normal circumstance. The fact that people on HCG remain healthy and active and feel very little deprivation (if any) has to do with how HCG works.

What Dr. Simeons Learned

A.T.W. Simeons was a medical researcher of the early 20th Century. His specialty was endocrinology, the sub-field of medicine that deals with the body’s “ductless” glands that secrete a wide variety of hormones. In case you have forgotten your high school biology, hormones are biochemical substances that regulate a large number of metabolic processes.

In pregnant women, the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or HCG, plays a large part in maintaining the health of the fetus. While working in India during the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Simeons determined that HCG helped prevent the mother’s system from robbing the fetus of nutrients in the event she was experiencing starvation.

Dr. Simeons also studied patients who suffered from morbid obesity due to pituitary gland dysfunction. Interestingly, these patients did not necessarily overeat, but when Dr. Simeons began treating them with HCG, they began to experience weight loss. This led to some very interesting conclusions about the nature of obesity and weight loss.

Why We Get Fat

Dr. Simeons realized that obesity was not due to any one cause, but a number of complex variables, all of which were related to genetics and the changes wrought by the introduction of agriculture – which changed our natural diet and eating patterns dramatically.

Because of these variables, combined with certain evolutionary tendencies, humans have developed the trait of storing excess fat, known as adipose, around their abdominal regions (in men) and hips and thighs (in women). Adipose is a form of fat that contains many nutrients and high caloric content – but is literally “locked up” in a form that cannot be readily utilized. On a normal low calorie diet, the body first starts to cannibalize itself by feeding on muscle mass. Once that has gone, it turns to fat deposits that we need – the fat that surrounds our internal organs, providing lubrication and protection. Only then will it start to use adipose to maintain life processes.

The HCG Diet To The Rescue

HCG, taken in conjunction with Dr. Simeons’ protocols, causes weight loss to happen quickly and naturally by reversing this process. The gland in our brains, known as the hypothalamus, gets “reprogrammed” when HCG is replaced in our bodies; instead of starting off with muscle tissue, it is forced to unlock the calories stored in adipose first. This is how good health is maintained while eating a very low calorie diet and taking HCG.

How The HCG Diet Can Help You

You’ll find a wealth of material here on this site about HCG, Dr. Simeons’ protocols and how these can help you in achieving your weight-loss goals.

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