In 1954 an English Doctor, Dr. Simeon discovered a method to force stored body fat to circulate again without people having to suffer from hunger or having to overly exhaust themselves with too much exercise. The name of this program is called "the hCG diet". Dr. Simeon discovered that a small quantity of the hCG hormone helps to free the fat, burn it, and evacuate it through the kidneys. He also discovered that it suppresses feelings of hunger. Together with a very specific meal plan (500 calorie/day), hCG is said to help the body to prevent new fat from immediately taking the place of the removed fat, so for some, it seems the ideal way to lose body fat.
Three Kinds of Fat (excerpt from Dr. Simeon's manuscript "Pounds and Inches") P. 7
In the human body we can distinguish three kinds of fat.
- The first is the Structural Fat which fills the gaps between various organs, a sort of packing material. Structural fat also performs such important functions as bedding the kidneys in soft elastic tissue, protecting the coronary arteries and keeping the skin smooth and taut. II also provides the springy cushion of hard fat under the bones of the feet, without which we would be unable to walk.
- The second type of fat is a Normal Reserve of fuel upon which the body can freely draw when the nutritional income from the intestinal tract is insufficient to meet the demand. Such normal reserves are localized all over the body. Fat is a substance which packs the highest caloric value into the smallest space so that normal reserves of fuel for muscular activity and the maintenance of body temperature can be most economically stored in this form. Both these types of fat, structural and reserve, are normal, and even if the body stocks them to capacity this can never be called obesity.
- But there is a third type of fat which is entirely Abnormal. It is the accumulation of such fat and of such fat only, from which the overweight person suffers. This abnormal fat is also a potential reserve of fuel, but unlike the normal reserves it is not available to the body in a nutritional emergency. It is, so to speak, locked away in a fixed deposit and is not kept in a current account, as are the normal reserves. When an obese person tries to reduce by starving himself, he will first lose his normal fat reserves. When these are exhausted he begins to burn up structural fat, and only as a last resort will the body yield its abnormal reserves, though by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned. It is just for this reason that obese people complain that when they diet they lose the wrong fat...
Fat on the Move (excerpt from Dr. Simeon's manuscript "Pounds and Inches") P. 25
It should then he possible to keep an obese person on a severely restricted diet without a feeling of hunger...I found that as long as such patients were given small daily doses of HCG they could comfortably go about their usual occupations on a diet of only 500 Calories daily and lose an average of about one pound per day. It was also perfectly evident that only abnormal fat was being consumed, as there were no signs of any depletion of normal fat....On the contrary, most patients complained that the two meals of 250 Calories each were more than they could manage, as they continually had a feeling of just having had a large meal.
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And not to forget the most important piece! It is said that the hCG hormone is effective in "resetting" the hypothalamus gland.
Doctors have recognized that in order for the brain to function properly, and for the neurotransmitters in the brain to receive messages, the hypothalamus must be working correctly.
The general functions of the hypothalamus are:
- Pituitary gland regulation blood pressure regulation
- Feeding reflexes
- Hydration
- Water preservation
- Testicular function
- Metabolism
- Thirst
- Heart rate
- Hormonal/neurotransmitter regulation
- Mood & behavioral functions
- Sleep cycles
- Hunger and salt cravings
- Body temperature regulation
- Bladder function
- Ovarian function
- Wakefulness
- Energy levels
It seems that almost all of the Hypothalamus functions are related in some way to weight management. Simply put, when the Hypothalamus is dysfunctional, food becomes increasingly more important, yet increasingly less satisfying. In turn, what happens is that we never feel satisfied with the foods we have eaten and over time gradually eat more and more. The Hypothalamus not only governs the motivation to eat by stimulating hunger and appetite, but most importantly it governs how eating is to be experienced, and how deeply the satisfaction occurs. The hCG diet claims the ability to "reset" this gland back to its normal state within 23 days.
