The HCG Diet By Helene Pulnik, ND T
he HCG diet was developed origi- nally by Dr. A.T.W Simeons, MD, a British endocrinologist. His protocol and medical findings were published in his manuscript “Pounds & Inches.” He estab- lished a clinic in Rome, Italy in the 1950’s where he developed a reputation for safe and effective weight loss with his HCG diet protocol.
According to Dr. Simeons, obesity in
all its many forms is due to an abnormal functioning of some part of the body and that every ounce of abnormally accumulated fat is always the result of the same disorder of certain regulatory mechanisms. He was ahead of his time when he described obesity as a disorder originating from the diencepha- lon, a part of the hypothalamus in the brain which regulates body weight. Dr. Simeons observed that when pa- tients were eating meals when they were not hungry, the food that was not being used by the body as fuel was stored as fat. He went on to describe 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. It 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 re-
serve 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 economi- cally 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, according to Dr. Simeons. The third type of fat described by Dr. Simeons is a type of fat which is entirely abnormal. He concluded that it is the ac- cumulation of such fat, and of such fat only, from which the overweight patient 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. Dr. Simeons observed that when an obese patient tries to reduce by starving him or herself, they 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 usu- ally feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned. It is just for this reason that obese patients complain that when they diet they lose the wrong fat. They feel famished and tired and their face becomes drawn and haggard, but their belly, hips, thighs and upper arms show little improvement. The fat they have come to detest stays on, and their skin wrinkles. Dr. Simeons discovered that the cause of
obesity was due to one very specific dien- cephalic deficiency, and that the only way to cure obesity was to correct this deficiency. He found that by using HCG or human cho- rionic gonadotropin, a hormone present in all humans, and in higher levels in pregnant women, along with a very low calorie diet, kept the structural fat and muscle intact while only breaking down abnormal, toxic fat.
Dr. Simeons’ research revealed that HCG maximizes the functional capacity of the hypothalamus, including the dien- cephalon, or what he called “the fat center,” making it possible for fat to be released from abnormal fat deposits and to become a source of fuel for the body. The HCG Diet has become very popular in recent years, due to its safety and effectiveness in helping men and women lose weight and keep it off.
40 Natural Nutmeg January 2012
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