hCG Diet Reviews

“It’s hard losing thirty pounds in thirty days” is a headline that has grabbed so much attention regarding the HCG weight-loss program. KMBC’s Kelly Eckerman reported that it does involve buying a product. While the HCG Diet has its backers, there is more to this diet than popping a pill.

If you’re on the Internet, it is hard not to be bombarded with ads for the HCG diet. What is HCG? It is a hormone that is sold in creams, injections or drops. It is not new. Even back in the 1970s, the drug was used off label for purposes of weight loss. They’ve done on HCG, where we have given people HCG and put them on a 500- calorie-a-day diet, or put them on a placebo and given them 500 calories a day, they lose the same percentage of body fat; they lose the same percentage of muscle mass,” said Dr. Toby Free.

If you choose HCG for weight loss, you are looking at a very low-calorie diet to go along with it. HCG is often called the pregnancy hormone. Its presence in urine indicates pregnancy and it is used as a fertility drug. Use of HCG in weight loss is considered an “off-label” use, meaning not what the drug was intended for.