Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• What is hCG?
  Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone produced naturally in the body during pregnancy. This hormone helps a woman sustain her pregnancy and is also used in the clinical setting to help women with infertility and to help increase deficient testosterone levels in men.
• Am I a Candidate for hCG Weight Loss?
  hCG provides dramatic weight loss for those patients unable to lose excess weight with diet and exercise. The hCG Diet can be used safely by men and women who are looking to reach a healthy weight in a short amount of time. Our program is medically supervised and your risks will be individually assessed based on your medical history during your first office visit.
• How much weight can I expect to lose on the hCG Diet?
  Patients lose weight quickly and can expect to lose an average of 1 lb per day. Male patients lose a pound or more a day; women lose a half-pound to pound a day. Over the course of a regimen, men can lose 30-50 pounds; women often lose 25-35 pounds. The pounds are often shed from the places that are hardest to lose: hips and thighs.
• How our HCG is different than the ones sold on websites?
  Our hCG is available by prescription only through a compounding pharmacy. It is pharmaceutical grade and is derived from isolated and sterile human sources. The compounded pharmacies are operated under state law, United States Pharmacopeia (USP) requirements and USP Good Compounding Guidelines. Many other companies may obtain their hCG from unknown foreign sources with questionable purity and dosage that are prepared at unlicensed and uninspected facilities.
• What does the program include?
  Our program is a medically supervised weight loss program that is highly effective and the absolute FASTEST weight loss you will EVER experience! The program involves:

  • Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) analysis before and after to monitor your fat loss. For more information on BIA click here.
  • Routine Labs
  • Diet program Booklet that include dietary guidelines for different phases of the program, recommended food list, and yummy recipes.
  • You will meet weekly with the doctor to track your weight loss, answer questions to help you succeed with your weight loss goal.
  • The program include pharmaceutical grade injectable or sublingual HCG, injection supplies, training , natural appetite suppressants, and other supplements to help with your weight loss.
  • Vitamin injections are also available at the doctors discretion.
• How long is the program?
  The plan involves a 23-day or 40-day regimen of daily injections of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and a very low-calorie diet — 500 calories from a limited list of foods.
• Is it safe to consume only 500 calories per day?
  During treatment with hCG injections, stored fat is released and used to fulfill your caloric needs. Under the influence of hCG, your body will be supplied with a continual amount of calories from your fat stores. Only when this released fat is consumed can more fat be withdrawn from storage, which is why it is necessary to keep caloric intake very low. The intake of 500 calories per day is enough to sustain your caloric needs to lose weight fast from your fat reserves.
• Will I feel hungry on only 500 calories per day?
  Patients have a hard time believing that they won't feel hungry consuming so few calories. Treatment with hCG controls hunger because it releases stored fat which serves as fuel for the body. The fat reserves supply the body with thousands of calories per day thus making it possible to feel completely satisfied with a very low caloric intake.
• How does the hCG Diet compare to other weight loss programs?
  Other programs that promote rapid weight loss without hCG treatment typically achieve a reduction in weight at the expense of muscle mass which ends up costing the patient in the long run. Muscle mass is a metabolically active tissue which means it utilizes energy and burns calories even while a person is at rest. An increase in lean muscle mass can increase a person's metabolism which is why it is important to increase the percentage of lean muscle to fat mass. Most deprivation type diets end up decreasing a person's metabolism because pounds lost are due to loss of muscle and water instead of fat. These patients end up regaining the weight back. Treatment with HCG injections specifically targets fat cells and has no effect on muscle mass so patients are able to lose weight quickly and achieve long term results.
• How does hCG work to bring about such rapid weight loss?
  hCG effectively resets your fat-burning metabolism through its action on the area of the brain that manages fat storage and utilization. It is able to access fat stores in difficult to lose areas such as the belly, hips, thighs, and upper arms.
• Is hCG safe?
  It is mistakenly believed that since hCG is a hormone it acts on the reproductive system. Human chorionic gonadotrophin does not directly affect the sex glands. It acts on the hypothalamus to bring about an increase in the functional capacity of all the endocrine glands regulated by the hypothalamus. It can improve a hormonal deficiency but will not cause any sex changes or interfere with a normal functioning reproductive system. Both men and women can safely use hCG for weight loss with little to no side effects. In fact, many people report feeling more energy with hCG Diet therapy. However, there are no studies associated with the long-term adverse effect of HCG as a weight loss therapy at this time.
• What is FDA's position on HCG for weight loss?
  HCG is not FDA approved for weight loss or for the treatment of obesity. Labeling and Advertising of HCG is required by the FDA to state the following: There is no substantial evidence that HCG increases weight loss beyond that resulting from caloric restriction, that it causes a more attractive or "normal" distribution of fat, or that it decreases the hunger and discomfort associated with calorie-restrictive diets. At this point, there are no studies that show the long-term adverse effect of HCG as a weight-loss therapy.