Showing posts with label pregnancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pregnancy. Show all posts

06 January 2011

HCG Drops - A Brief Summary

You may have heard of HCG injections as a method for losing weight. An easier and affordable alternative is to use HCG drops. Developed only recently through breakthroughs in HCG administration, HCG drops are much easier than injections due to their oral intake method.

HCG, which stands for human chorionic gonadotropin, is a hormone generated during pregnancy. It works as a weight loss aid by releasing your stored fat for use as energy. It works this way due to its special attributes during pregnancy. HCG is created by the early placenta and makes sure the baby has a constant stream of energy, even if the mother isn't getting enough food. When taken for weight loss, HCG allows you to eat a drastically reduced amount of calories while burning your fat stores at a swift pace to supply your energy needs.

The HCG diet has become extremely popular ever since HCG drops were created a few years ago. Its popularity is only improved by the fact that you can literally see the scales dropping practically every day on the program. In addition, people love the lack of hunger and the fact that they don't have to exercise.

Now let's briefly cover the actual diet protocol you'll follow while taking HCG drops. The first two days are sometimes called the binge days because you eat to capacity the most fattening foods you can. Among other things, this prevents you from feeling hungry while HCG starts to release your stored fat during the first few days. You take twelve to fifteen drops of HCG 2 to 6 times per day. The drops go under your tongue where they are easily absorbed into your blood stream. During the next three to six weeks, you eat a very low-calorie diet of veggies, fruit, and meat, and a little starch. After that you stop taking HCG drops and are allowed to start eating whatever you want except sugar for three weeks. You can repeat this process more than once if necessary.

Other diet plans lack the many benefits of the HCG diet. Among the many benefits people bring up are the lack of hunger, feeling energetic and excited, no exercise, the fact that they're so inexpensive, and daily results.

So many women and men have already experienced the effectiveness of using oral HCG drops. HCG drops are a huge improvement over previous methods and have consistently demonstrated fantastic results compared to other diets.

10 December 2010

HCG Drops Aren't a Sex Hormone (Are They?)

The primary source of HCG, also called human chorionic gonadotropin, comes from women during pregnancy. HCG drops are wildly popular among dieters, and they have HCG as their chief component. HCG is often assumed to be a sex hormone of some kind just because comes from pregnant women. Dieters might start to ask themselves whether oral HCG drops might cause them to experience sexual or pregnancy-related side effects.

Not all hormones occurring during pregnancy have to do with sexual side effects. It can help to come to know what hormones really do. Folks might have been mistakenly thought that all hormones are sexually related. Would it surprise you to know that hormones are just chemical messengers? Hormones are like the handyman of your body. They can perform any number of jobs required by your body, including blood sugar levels, water retention, muscle growth—and directing the production of other hormones.

Of all the kinds of hormones, HCG does not belong in the sexual category at all. HCG is a peptide hormone, meaning it's built out of protein. The actual source of HCG is the developing embryo. It starts generating HCG immediately after it implants in the uterus. One of the things HCG does is allow the mother to produce another hormone called progesterone, which creates the network of blood vessels that deliver food to the developing baby. The fetus's early growth, and in fact its very survival, is directly linked to the production of HCG and progesterone. In other words, without HCG, it would be impossible for a woman to successfully complete a pregnancy.

Although HCG is critical to successful pregnancy, it has another function—it also helps overweight people lose weight, as discovered by Dr. ATW Simeons. He discovered that HCG mobilizes the body's stored fat deposits and moves it into the bloodstream. Although extreme morning sickness or undernourishment may reduce the amount of food the mother-to-be has available, the influx of fuel from stored fat reserves means the developing fetus will always have plenty to eat.

As you can easily see by now, this function of HCG isn't related to anything sexual. Whether you get HCG from being pregnant or from HCG drops, it works in the same manner, and it actually works the same for both men and women. So if you happen to be one of those who feels unsure about taking a "pregnancy hormone," you can rest assured that HCG drops are no such thing. The only thing HCG drops do is go into your body and release your stored fat deposits so they'll flood into your blood stream and make up for any deficit in calories.