About HCG for weight loss
More recent clinical research trials offer that HCG injections indeed do work for weight loss. The current thinking is
that HCG does not make you lose weight, the calorie-restricted diet
makes you lose weight but what the HCG injections change is how you lose
weight. Patients report losing weight and losing inches without feeling
hungry. HCG being a pro-hormone helps the body make other hormones. By elevating
hormone levels in the body, including testosterone, HCG injections keep
you in a muscle-building state while preventing muscle-breakdown.
As
we get older, we tend to lose muscle, gain fat and our metabolism
slows. Maintaining or increasing muscle is one of the keys to staying
thin and increasing longevity. Muscle is known to increase metabolic
rate and burn fuel at rest. A pound of muscle,
at rest, burns about 6 calories and a pound of fat burns about 2
calories. The more muscle you have, the higher your resting metabolic
rate. HCG may help in this regard by preserving muscle mass and thus increasing your metabolic rate.
It
is no secret that most people who go on a diet and are successful in
losing weight end up regaining the weight and then some within a year.
Yet patients who use the injectable HCG report that they are
maintaining their weight loss long after their HCG Protocol is completed and this may explain why advocates call it a “re-set” of the metabolism.
Proponents
of the HCG Protocol offer that prescription injectable HCG tricks the
body into burning fat more efficiently. It helps to stimulate the
hypothalamus (the brain center that directs a multitude of functions in
the body), in order to release the abnormal fat and thereby pull
nutrients and calories from the fat stores to nourish the body. The
body preserves its lean muscle mass in favor of burning the excess body
fat as fuel for energy. Hunger cravings relate to the body’s need for energy. The fat stores reportedly will
release a minimum of 1300-1500 calories a day to maintain all normal
bodily functions and meet its energy requirements; in addition to that,
you are eating 500 calories a day and this could partly explain why
patients on the injectable HCG Protocol report reduced appetite, decreased food cravings, increased energy all without lean muscle loss.
It is also known that appetite and
body fat are under the hormonal control of 2 other big players, Leptin
and Ghrelin. Leptin is an appetite suppressor as it decreases hunger.
Ghrelin is an appetite increaser as it increases hunger. There is a
complex interplay between both as they activate your hypothalamus to
help the body maintain homeostasis and
stay in balance. So, another consideration is that HCG, through the
stimulation of the hormone leptin (appetite suppressor) prevents
symptoms of starvation while on a very low 500-calorie-a-day diet. This
could help account for why patients report reduced appetite and
decreased food cravings despite eating so few calories.
In a 2013 article by journalist,
Janet St. James, she reports that : Many reputable doctors question if
the 500-calorie-a-day diet used with HCG is the real reason for extreme
weight loss, but she also states that Dr. Mehmet Oz, of the Dr OZ show
says new data shows it’s more than that. “I am feeling more
comfortable,” he said. “I do feel there’s still a lot we have to learn
about why it works, but I’ve got to say it makes a difference to a lot
of people, and it seems to very carefully allow you to lose weight
without burning a lot of muscle.”
After
doing a show last year on the HCG diet, Dr. Oz challenged the
physicians that prescribed HCG to do more research. Dr. Oz says there is
still no evidence that HCG droplets work; he has seen evidence only in
support of the injectable prescription drug.
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