What is the hCG diet?

The hCG weight loss protocol consists of a very low calorie diet(VLCD) accompanied by injected treatments of hCG. The average patient experiences rapid weight loss averaging 1 to 3 pounds per day. In addition to loss of unwanted fat, the true benefit of the hCG protocol is it’s ability to help modify the patients relationship with food and eating, resulting in easily maintained, long term weight loss.

What is hCG and how does it work?

hCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, a hormone present in both men and women, but which is produced in great amounts in pregnant females. During pregnancy, the substance almost completely controls the women’s metabolic functions. In non-pregnant persons, research suggests hCG similarly increases the metabolism as it does in pregnant females. Thousands of calories in stored fat are released, and are used by the body or expelled. To keep the fat cells from immediately taking on more fat, the very low fat VLCD is necessary and oil based personal care products , such as face and body lotion and some soaps are prohibited.