HCG has seen astounding popularity as a weight loss aid for both men and women, and this is actually the only positive benefit some people know it for.
It has to be said that there are certainly more direct and effective methods of burning body fat if this is your sole goal, but it might just be that HCG suits your needs adequately.
HCG As A Diet Aid
As previously discussed, HCG is able to protect lean tissue levels and directly encourage the utilisation of fat cells as the body’s primary fuel source as opposed to muscle during periods of calorie deficiency.
This alone makes it a viable means of losing weight, and a HCG diet was established (and is still followed by many to this day) as a means of losing body fat.
The HCG Diet
The HCG diet involves the user following an exercise program whilst utilising HCG and operating around a 500 calorie intake daily.
The severe calorie deficit in conjunction with the use of HCG are theorized to lead to inevitable weight loss. As lean muscle tissue burns calories in its own right, the protection of this lean tissue is a vital part of the fat burning process.
Is Weight Loss An Outcome Of HCG Use Or Starvation?
Realistically, there is no biological or medical basis for saying that HCG is responsible for the weight loss that occurs on the HCG diet save for the fact that it can help to protect lean tissue levels.
What ultimately achieves the physical weight loss and burning of fat in this instance is the calorie deficit – this deficit however is further aided by the enhanced calorific output needed to maintain the muscle that HCG protects
Both compounds work together synergistically, but it would be unrealistic to say concisely that HCG achieves this fat burning effect in its own right.
If HCG wasn’t present, the individual would still lose weight though this may take place as a result of the consumption of muscle tissue as well as fat stores.