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Owing to the fact that HCG has no direct action on any endocrine gland, its
enormous importance in pregnancy has been overlooked and its potency
underestimated. Though a pregnant woman can produce as much as one million
units per day, we find that the injection of only 125 units (250 units is
recommended in the U.S.) per day is ample to
reduce weight at the rate of roughly one pound per day, even in a colossus
weighing 400 pounds, when associated with a 500 calorie diet. It is no
exaggeration to say that the flooding of the female body with HCG is by far the
most spectacular hormonal event in pregnancy. It has an enormous protective
importance for mother and child, and I even go so far as to say that no woman,
and certainly not an obese one, could carry her pregnancy to term without it.
If I can be forgiven for comparing my fellow-endocrinologists with wicked
godmothers, HCG has certainly been their Cinderella, and I can only romantically
hope that its extraordinary effect on abnormal fat will prove to be its fairy
godmother.
HCG has been known for over half a century. It is the substance which Aschheim
and Zondek so brilliantly used to diagnose early pregnancy out of the urine.
Apart from that, the only thing it did in the experimental laboratory was to
produce precocious rats, and that was not particularly stimulating to further
research at a time when much more thrilling endocrinological discoveries were
pouring in from all sides, sweeping, HCG into the stiller back waters.
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Dr Simeons HCG protocol
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