What is The HGC Diet And is The HGC Diet Safe?

Why the hGC Diet?

The headlines " Lose 1 to 2 lbs. a Day" caught my eye! I began reading about a diet plan that I had never heard of before, well, I had heard about it but not long ago when I was asked me if I'd like to lose 30 pounds in 30 days, that's why I was learning about the hGC diet. It was the strangest thing, because all of the articles I was reading seemed to highlight the dangers of the hGC diet with health experts moaning about the troubles caused by extremely reduced nutrient dieting, but the comments written below the articles largely seemed positive, most of the people that responded to the articles were loving this diet and relating how they had finally lost weight after years of trying. Tthey said they had lost it amazingly fast.

Where the idea for using hCG for dieting came from

Correctly it is called the hCG diet and not the hGC diet. The letters hCG means Human Chronic Gonadotropin which is a hormone that is manufactured by the cells in the placenta. During a woman's pregnancy this hormone helps in the development of the placenta itself and in the development of reproductive organs in the growing fetus. It is present in both men and women but during pregnancy, the levels in women are elevated. The hCG hormone also causes the hypothalamus to unlock the fat cells, in other words ready them for business. This helps give cellular fuel to the growing baby from the mother's fat cells. This is where the genius of using this hormone for dieting came from. If a person could take in enough hCG to cause their fat cells to "open for business" and that could be combined with a low-calorie diet, voila, unbelieveable weight loss would occur. The theory is that the body would use the open fat cells to take food from when it was denied calories from its regular source.

The big question

The question still remains, is the hGC diet or more correctly the hCG diet safe? Many want-to-be experts out there dismiss this diet as dangerous. These traditional thinking experts point to several reasons, including the fact that the FDA has not yet approved this hormone for a weight-loss. (Although it is approved for infertility treatment in both men and women and for pregnancy related issues.) Uninformed experts also outline that 500 calories a day does not provide all of the energy to even run your brain let alone porvide for the rest of your body. Nasayers are eager to make the point that this could cause severe organ damage, and that such a reduced calorie diet will cause your body to transact with its muscle tissues for the much needed energy. To make the final argument, these experts draw the conclusion that that you'll eventually become so hungry you'll give in and eat everything in sight. The fact is, most of these writers do not know what they're talking about. Uninformed experts are basing their a off-the-cuff reactions on the distinct factors of this diet rather than understanding the diet as a whole.

Exit fat, stage left

A 500 calorie-a-day diet by itself would be dangerous and certainly would do damage to your body organs and lean muscle tissues. But what the knee-jerk experts failed to take into account is the action the hCG hormone takes on the hypothalamus which then in turn makes the fat cells ready to accept or release fat. Since the body is only receiving 500 calories of food sustenance a day, it turns to the fat stored in it cells. Because the hypothalamus has made this fat readily available, the body makes up the calorie deficit by consuming its own fat, up to 2000 to 2,500 calories of fat a day. Can we say rapid and sustainable weight loss?

Bad experiences?

Individuals who have a bad experience with the hGC diet or more correctly hCG diet, usually have not kept strictly the instructions that come with the diet. The hCG diet is quite unforgiving and demands that you follow the instructions to the letter! Since you're fat cells are open for business you can not eat things that are not approved. Any cheating will lead to immediate weight gain. This is both a curse and a blessing. The blessing comes from the fact that you don't deveate from the rules so the fat melts off your body. Because of the action of the hormone you are rewarded every morning when you step on the scales. I have been on this diet twice and both times had great success. I lost 60 lbs. in as many days.

Is this diet for you?

Having said all of this, I will readily admit that this diet is not for everyone and I could not possibly know how each individual will react to the hormone and to the hGC diet itself, but if you use common sense and stop dieting if you feel weak, dizzy, or have any other negative side effects you should be OK. Millions of pregnant women around the world have significantly higher levels of this hormone coursing through their veins than you will ever have during the duration of this diet. If you are looking for rapid, sustainable, safe weight-loss perhaps you should give this diet a try.

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