HCG Diet Explained

HCG Diet Explained

There have fad diets, too many to mention in the last 100 years. People have turned to some pretty outrageous methods to try and lose unwanted weight. From trying to vibrate it away to actually ingesting tape worms. It seems today that people will work very hard and go to just about any lengths to avoid eating right and getting the exercise required to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The key to losing weight is actually very simple, more calories a day must be burned than are taken in. Where the diets come in, the fad diets especially, is that people wish to accomplish the required calorie burn, resulting in the weight loss they want, while doing as little as physically possible.

Enter the HCG diet. This diet has actually been around for quite some while. It’s resurfaced and gone out of style a few times over the decades. HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin. This is actually the hormone present in a female’s urine when she first becomes pregnant; it’s used for pregnancy testing even today. This chemical in the females body ensure that the fetus will be provided for by the stored fat reserves in the mother, whether or not the mother is eating properly.

Some scientists and doctors maintain that injections of this hormone in association with an extremely low calorie diet, around 500 calories, can result in a rapid weight loss. There are those who find this diet very suspect. First and foremost you must take injections of this hormone everyday for a month along with the dangerously low calorie diet. If you do decide to go on this diet be sure to follow your doctors instructions carefully.

Purchasing HCG Hormone

With the popularity of the HCG Diet increasing, many people are trying to find ways in which they can purchase HCG hormones for much lower than what they were paying at their local pharmacy. However, because of these demand, there has been numerous websites that have sprung up that are charging people for the HCG Hormone, but in all reality, the person may be getting nothing more than sugar water or something that is much worse. So how can a person protect themselves?

The first step is to make sure that you are only purchasing your HCG hormone from a trusted source. Never use those websites that demand that you Western Union them money in order to send you a batch of HCG hormone, this is becoming one of the more popular scams that people are falling for. In most cases, the person never receives any product and they are basically out of the money that they sent.

Secondly, if the person is buying from a website, then they should be sure that it is a website for their country. Never buy the HCG Hormone from another country, even if the prescription is much cheaper. The reason is that every country regulates their pharmaceuticals differently. For those in the United States, they could end up with HCG hormone that is laced with something else in order to boost weight loss faster that could ultimately lead to the person having more serious side-effects such as heart attacks, stroke and death.

The best place to get the HCG hormone is to talk to your health care provider and go to the pharmacy that you always go to. Many times the doctor that is your weight loss specialist is going to have a supply on hand for their patients. This is the only sure way to be sure that what you are putting into your body is genuine and is not going to cause any problems.