The "HCG Diet"

[Doctapeppa]

It's good for women for weight loss, it tricks the body in thinkin it's pregnant, when this occurs the women's body begins to burn excess calories for preparing for growth of the fetus. But with a extreme calorie deficient diet, the body burns the excess fat stored... Then the other signals never come ( from pregnancy) so the body keeps reacting to the pre-signal (hcg) in burning all unnecessary weight/fat.

HCG does not trick the woman's body into thinking it's pregnant. If it did then the woman would cease to ovulate and that is not the case. HCG in the context of dieting does nothing different than placebo as has been documented in multiple studies.

[Lemonada8]

HCG does not trick the woman's body into thinking it's pregnant. If it did then the woman would cease to ovulate and that is not the case. HCG in the context of dieting does nothing different than placebo as has been documented in multiple studies.

The women cant ovulate when shes pregnant because she physically cant do it, the fetus is in the way. HCG has nothing to do with that, i was refering to how the womens body utilizes all non-necessary 'energy' in preperation for the fetus. There are many more signals in the body during pregnancy which have more effects than HCG that dont come (which i also said)

post links to those studies however.

[Doctapeppa]

The women cant ovulate when shes pregnant because she physically cant do it, the fetus is in the way. HCG has nothing to do with that, i was refering to how the womens body utilizes all non-necessary 'energy' in preperation for the fetus. There are many more signals in the body during pregnancy which have more effects than HCG that dont come (which i also said)

post links to those studies however.

The fetus is in the way? Lol, where in the world did you get that? A woman does not ovulate while she is pregnant because of elevated levels of progesterone which is firs produced by the corpus luteum and later by the placenta. Progesterone inhibits LH and FSH which are what cause ovulation. Block LH and FSH and a woman doesn't ovulate. This is how most oral contraceptive tablets work (they contain progesterone and estrogen, basically)

I can't post links yet. if you go to pub med and type in "HCG and weight loss" you will get several different articles. One is even a huge meta analysis of multiple studies that concludes: "5. We conclude that there is no scientific evidence that HCG is effective in the treatment of obesity; it does not bring about weight-loss of fat-redistribution, nor does it reduce hunger or induce a feeling of well-being."

Edit: Here is the ref. for that study: Br J Clin Pharmacol. 1995 September; 40(3): 237–243