Weight Control
What is hCG? hCG is an abbreviation for Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin. It is a hormone that is produced by the placenta during pregnancy. Women make the equivalent of millions of International Units (IUs) during pregnancy. It is believed that hCG maximizes the functional capacity of the body’s control centers in the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is a part of the central nervous system and controls many different body functions. Dr. Simeons believed that one center in the hypothalamus, which he called the fat bank, controls the movement and distribution of fat throughout the body. hCG mobilizes abnormal fat and releases it as a source of energy and nutrients. Thus the hypothalamus ensures that the developing fetus has access to energy and nutrients even if a pregnant woman temporarily lacks access to food, thus protecting the fetus’s growth and development. Likewise, when a patient is on the Dr. Simeon’s hCG Protocol small amounts of hCG have been shown to mobilize abnormal fat and to make it available to the body as a source of energy and nutrients. How is it possible to be on a 500* Calorie per day while on this Protocol? Some people have a hard time understanding the rationale behind the 500* Calorie per day diet. They may say that anyone would lose weight on a 500* Calorie per day diet or that it would be impossible to follow. If somebody were to start a 500* Calorie per day diet without hCG, he or she would experience the following: hunger, cravings, feelings of misery, loss of structural mass, and a lack of loss of abnormal fat deposits. When patients start on the hCG protocol they generally lose up to 0.5kg abnormal fat per day. Each 0.5kg of fat contains approximately 3500 calories. If people lose 0.5kg of abnormal fat in one day that makes 3500 Calories available to them. This in addition to the 500 Calories that they consume through their diet, making the total 4000 Calories. If people lose 0.25kg of normal fat, that makes 1750 Calories available to the
