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Early in the 1950s, Dr. ATW Simeons, an endocrinologist from Britain was performing clinical trials on young adolescent males with low testosterone levels. The boys' were being treated for this malady with HCG, and began to notice the boys' were losing both weight and abnormal fatty areas were slimming down.
The two hundred and forty four amino acid compound, HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin), is found in a pregnant mother's placenta, and is found in large quantities, and is extracted through her urine. Through history, this HCG hormone has been used to treat infertility in women. By giving a infertile woman HCG, it can aid in starting ovulation. It has also been studied that giving males, a considerably smaller amount of HCG, can assist in raising otherwise low testosterone levels.
During the doctor's studies and trials, and associating that HCG affects the hypothalamus gland positively, he began to believe that the gland was partially responsible for regulating abnormal fats, along with normal fats. Following his hypothesis, Dr. Simeons, began testing certain amounts of HCG and the reactions with certain foods. After ten years of study and experiments, he found that with the correctly used amounts of HCG and the food plan, were followed correctly, men and women both, could lose extreme amounts of abnormal fats in a very short amount of time. Especially, when compared against diet and exercise alone. Health care providers and doctors came to Rome, from all over the world, as Simeons' HCG and diet work began to spread. As a result of the widespread interest, Dr. Simeons published “Pounds and Inches, a New Approach to Obesity”, in 1967. This publication was to assist common everyday people, as well as medical professionals, better understand what he had established.
A direct result to his publishing, “fat clinics” began sprouting all over the United States and Europe.
There were several studies on the HCG Diet, conducted throughout the 1970s, and due to the fact that these diets did not follow Dr. Simeons' protocol in it's entirety, and the lack of Dr. Simeons failing to get FDA approval for the hormones use as a weight loss agent, the HCG diet protocol began to lose it's popularity. Kevin Trudeau, in 2007, published a book titled “The Weight Loss Cure, What THEY Don't Want You To Know”, this book contained information about Dr. Simeons protocol, enough information, to get people looking towards the HCG Diet protocols. The downfall there, was people began ordering HCG from anywhere they could find it, being a shortage in medical offices that offered the HCG Diet plans or protocols. Many people began attempting to self medicate with HCG injections, searching outside the United States and online to find the correct mixing information, and where trying to figure out how to get around the medical establishments that were administering the HCG treatments. People attempting to administer correct dosages and mixtures, and self injections, definitely not the best laid plans. This launched a YouTube video sensation, claiming that health care facilities offering the HCG weight loss diet and the injections were not necessary and the cost was too high. This lead to online groups that were in full belief of the YouTube claims, this became a haven for those who just wanted to sell their own version of the HCG product.
