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[Cheametum]

Hi, not sure if "Marketing and Public Relations" is the right place for this.... I'm thinking about going on the Hcg diet, however I am undecided. Has any person here tried it? Great idea? I commonly hear mixed reviews on it, but I need to slim down.

[Seven1]

The HCG diet is not a diet. By definition diet is a pattern of eating that may be influenced by culture, accessibility, or otherwise personal choice. Diet has become a misnomer wording to mean when people are trying to lose weight, but it really means when anyone makes a selective choice about what they consume.

The HCG treatment involves the injection of a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin. The idea of injecting this hormone came from the birth control where women are given an artificial does of human hormones to mimic a natural physiological response. Birth control pills work by many ways but that is not the point of this topic. The compound HCG is normally made by a developing embryo and soon after the placenta. The word chorionic comes from the chorion membrane that surrounds the baby and separates it from its mother. The chemical is made during the pregnancy to go out into the mother's blood where it will act upon the pituitary, ovaries, and other glands in the body leading to a huge number of interactions. The one that you are looking at is increased lipolysis (increased breakdown of fat) which is presumably a good thing because it leads to lots of free fatty acids in the blood stream that will go to the developing embryo/fetus. Those fatty acids will be used in a multitude of ways to construct cell membranes, cell signals, etc.