As many of you know, there has been a ton of press on the HCG diet as of late. I will be doing a series on this subject over the next weeks to help illuminate you on this topic.
What is the HCG diet anyways? As far as that goes, what is HCG? HCG is also known as Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, and is a hormone that has similar function to Luteinizing Hormone (it has many functions including increasing testosterone). The diet incorporates a very low dose of daily HCG with a very strict 500 calorie per day diet. In addition to an ultra low calorie diet with virtually no fat intake, lotions or creams containing lipids are not allowed either. As you can imagine, the diet alone will result in quite a bit of weight loss (with or without exercise).
According to the sources, the addition of the daily HCG will help curb hunger and may reduce the typical metabolism reduction associated an extremely low calorie diet.
In my next post, I will discuss the science behind these claims. As you can imagine, with anything that is half of a century old, there is plenty to discuss.
Tags: diet alone, HCG diet, Human Chrorionic Gonadotropin, weight loss