DR SIMEONS

The HCG Diet Protocol was written and discovered by Dr. A.T.W. Simeons who devoted his life to the study of obesity and how to cure it. The first report on the use of HCG for the management of obesity was published in 1954 by the late Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, a London-born physician practicing at the Ospedale Salvatori Mundii in Rome.

Dr. Simeons discovered the cure by observing women in third world countries who were working long and hard hours with very little food. He noticed that even though these women were practically starving out in the fields, they were still giving birth to perfectly normal, healthy, full weight babies. From this observation Dr. Simeons realized that whether the mothers ate or not, the baby was STILL GETTING THE NUTRITION they needed through a biological process using HCG. 

HCG no Sex Hormone

 It cannot he sufficiently emphasized that HCG is not a sex-hormone. Its action is identical in men, women, and children, as well as in those cases in which the sex-glands no longer function owing to old age or their surgical removal. The only sexual change it can bring about after puberty is an improvement of a pre-existing deficiency, but never a stimulation beyond the normal.  In an indirect way via the anterior pituitary, HCG regulates menstruation and facilitates conception, but it never virilizes a woman or feminizes a man.  It neither makes men grow breasts nor does it interfere with their virility, though where this was deficient it may improve it. It never makes women grow a beard or develop a gruff voice. I have stressed this point only for the sake of my lay readers, because, it is our daily experience that when patients hear the word hormone they immediately jump to the conclusion that this must have something to do with the sex- sphere. They are not accustomed as we are, to think thyroid, insulin, cortisone, adrenalin etc, as hormones.

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