Types of Fat
Fat is one of the three main macronutrients among carbohydrates and proteins. It is an important nutrient and serves both structural and metabolic functions. Fat is an energy source for the body and a store of energy that the body does not need immediately. Each gram of fat, when burned or metabolised, releases nearly nine calories. Accumulation of these fat reserves leads to obesity.
Obesity increases the likelihood of various diseases, particularly heart diseases, type-2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, high blood pressure, mood disorders and osteoarthritis.
In the human body, there are three kinds of fat. Structural fat is fat that fills the gaps between organs and performs important functions, such as cushioning the kidneys with soft elastic tissues, protecting the coronary arteries and keeping the skin smooth and taut. It also provides a springy cushion of hard fat under the bones of the feet, specially heels, without which we will not be able to walk. Reserve fat is a reserve of fuel that the body can freely draw, when the nutrition from the intestinal tract is insufficient to meet the demand. Both these types of fat, structural and reserve, are normal, and even if the body stocks them to its full capacity, it is not obesity.
Abnormal fat: when the fat deposits grow rapidly and withdrawals become smaller, the body establishes a fixed deposit where all surplus calories go, but withdrawal from this deposit is extremely difficult by normal means. This is called abnormal fat that leads to the onset of obesity.
Causes of Obesity
Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessive food intake, lack of physical activity and genetic susceptibility, although a few cases are caused primarily due to endocrine disorders, medications or psychiatric problems.
Diencephalic disorders: sometimes, the fat processing mechanism is disrupted due to diencephalic disorder. When one of the many diencephalic centres, e.g., thyroid, pancreas and the nervous system are overtaxed, these centres try to increase their capacity at the expense of other centers.
Psychological aspects: the diencephalon is the seat of our primitive animal instincts and in an emergency, it is able to transfer pressure from one instinct to another. A lonely and unhappy person is deprived of all emotional comfort and instinct pressure. No amount of psychotherapy or analysis, happiness, company or the gratification of other instincts will correct the condition.
Compulsive eating: some obese patients suffer from this, particularly women in their late teens or early twenties. Such people feel a compulsive desire to eat and gobble almost anything edible at lightning speed and ferocity.
Reluctance to lose weight: some obese people are reluctant to lose fat. If they are intelligent, popular and successful, in spite of their weight, it is a source of pride. A few fat women consider their condition a safeguard against romantic involvements.
Signs and Symptoms
Some basic symptoms of obesity can be observed without the help of BMI (Body Mass Index) charts.
- When the skin is stretched due to the rapidly accumulating fat under it, it may split in the lower layers of the stomach and transform into scar tissue. Such striation commonly occurs on the abdomen of pregnant women, but in case of obesity, it is frequently found on breasts, hips and occasionally, on shoulders.
- In females, there may be a fold of skin over the pubic area and another may stretch around both sides of the chest, where a loose roll of fat can be grabbed between two fingers.
- While in males, the accumulation of abnormal fat in the chest area is always an indication, in females, this abnormal fat mixes with the normal breast fat.
- Abnormal fat hangs limp, and obese women have to constantly adjust their brassieres to properly fit their breasts. This is drastically reduced after a Fat Cleanse.
- Frequent headaches, rheumatic pains without detectable bone abnormality, laziness and lethargy (often both physical and mental) are also the symptoms. Abnormal fat is often associated with insomnia as well.
- Patients frequently feel the need to rest, feel famished and weak, hungry within just two to three hours of a heavy meal and have an irresistible yearning for sweets and starchy food. Sometimes, it may even be substituted by smoking and drinking.
- Constipation and a spastic or irritable colon.
- Menstrual cycles are often abnormal, such as delayed or early cycles, excessive or less bleeding during the cycles, clots and pre-menstrual symptoms.
What the Fat Cleanse Is
Important
This cleanse is only for those who have completed at least two Liver Cleanses properly.
Pills, liposuction, bariatric surgery, fad diets and exercise techniques 'guaranteed to melt away fat to reveal a slender and healthier you' are a dime a dozen. When an obese patient tries to reduce fat by starvation, he will first lose his reserve fat deposits. When these are exhausted, he begins to burn structural fat and only as a last resort, the body yields its abnormal reserves. By then, the patients feel famished and tired, their face becomes drawn and haggard, but their bellies, hips, thighs, shoulders and upper arms show little improvement.
I have also suffered from obesity of medium proportion. Like others, I made many attempts to lose weight and succeeded to some extent, albeit temporarily. I used to keep my weight in control with regular exercise and a proper cleanse routine, which included Kidney Cleanse, Acidity Cleanse, Parasite Cleanse and Liver Cleanse, but without any food restrictions. I regained the lost weight as soon as I left the regimen and resumed normal eating habits - since taste reigns.
In 2008, I came to know of the HCG (generally, referred as hCG, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) Diet Protocol developed by an Italian doctor, A.T.W. Simeons. He founded the Salvator Mundi International Hospital in 1960, which is operational even today. Dr. Simeons was awarded the Red Cross Order of Merit in the 1930's for his discovery of injectable atebrin for treating malaria. I appreciated his research and tried out his regimen with some minor modifications in diet adapted to the Indian context.
In the 1940's and 50's, Dr. Simeons studied the effects of HCG on weight loss. He published the results in his book, 'Pounds and Inches: A New Approach to Obesity'. Dr. Simeons found that HCG is most effective in achieving lasting weight loss when a specific diet protocol is followed.
HCG dissolves abnormal fat only when the food intake is limited to approximately 500 calories per day, rather than the daily requirement of 2000 calories. The body makes up for this deficit in the energy requirement by using abnormal fat.
The Fat Cleanse treatment, although I often call it 'Cure through Fat Cleanse', is not an attempt to reduce weight, but is aimed at curing the disorder and is equally effective in both sexes, of all ages, suffering from all forms of obesity. However, the calorie intake after cleansing should never exceed 2000 calories; otherwise the patient will gain weight again.
Some facts about HCG
- HCG is not a sex hormone and its action is identical in men, women, children and even in people whose sex glands no longer function owing to old age or surgical removal.
- HCG regulates menstruation and facilitates conception, but it neither makes men grow breasts, nor makes women grow beards or develop gruff voices.
- When fresh urine containing HCG of a pregnant female was given to obese people, in quantities of nearly 300 cc by retention enema, the results were as good as those by injecting HCG itself.
- Small daily doses appeared to be just as effective as larger ones given twice or thrice a week. When patients were given small daily doses, they seemed to lose their ravenous appetite, though they neither gained nor lost weight. However, their body shape did change.
HCG is a hormone or chemical substance found in females only during pregnancy. It is not found in males. HCG also supports the normal development of an egg in a woman's ovary, and stimulates its release during ovulation. HCG is also used to treat infertility, in both women and men.
During certain phases of pregnancy, a woman may produce as much as 3,00,000 IU of HCG per day, and the excess passes out in her urine. This hormone breaks down the abnormal fat in her body and releases energy for the development of the foetus. On a similar principle, injecting this hormone in obese people helps in burning the abnormal fat, thus losing weight.
An HCG injection of only 125 IU per day is enough to reduce abnormal fat at a rate of roughly 160/170 gms per day. One kg of fat produces 9000 calories. On consuming 500 calories instead of 2000, the body gets its remaining 1500 calories from burning abnormal fat. When abnormal fat is burnt, the body also releases retained water, required to support this fat. Hence, the cumulative weight loss is more than the above calculated amount. Under this treatment, the actual calorie requirement of the body is fulfilled and obese patients never feel hungry, in spite of the drastically reduced food intake.
Procedure
Before the Cleanse: measure your weight before starting the process. The normal weight for your height, age, skeletal and muscular build can be determined from the BMI table. A person with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 is considered healthy. A person with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight. A BMI of more than 30 is considered obese. A BMI of 40 or more indicates that a person is morbidly obese, which increases the risk of death by 50% to 85%.
Duration: people who need to lose weight require 26 days (23+3) of treatment, with 23 injections. Patients are not comfortable with a 500 calories diet unless their normal fat reserves are reasonably well stocked. They should eat high calorie food in their maximum capacity for four days before the cleanse and during the first three days of starting the cleanse. It takes nearly three injections before the abnormally deposited fat begins to circulate and becomes available for caloric use.
The diet is arranged in such a way that the weight remains perfectly stationary and the diet is continued for three days after the 23rd injection. Only then are the patients free to eat anything within the 1200 calories limit, except sugar and starch, for the next three weeks (Phase II of the cleanse).
Important
These injections may be injected daily and the course is often advised to be concluded in 26 days. After 23 injections, majority of patients begin to show signs of HCG immunity and after 40 injections, all patients usually become immune to HCG.
Tip
Fruits may be eaten in between meals, if not eaten with lunch or dinner. Salt, pepper, vinegar, mustard powder, garlic, sweet basil, parsley, thyme or marjoram may be used for seasoning. However, oil or butter dressing is not advisable. Tea or coffee can be consumed in the morning, if you cannot do without it. Fresh lime water with no or minimum sugar can be consumed in unlimited quantities. Lemon juice is allowed on a daily basis. In fact, the patient should drink nearly two litres of these fluids every day.
Strict vegetarians have a special problem because milk and curd are the only animal proteins they can eat. They should drink 500 ml of milk every day or an equivalent amount of curd. Home made Cheese/Paneer are better. Milk should be boiled and refrigerated to remove the cream.
First Few Days of Treatment
On the day of the third injection, it is almost expected to hear two remarks. One, "Doctor, I'm sure it's only psychological, but I already feel quite different." So common is this remark, even from very skeptical patients, that we hesitate to accept the psychological interpretation. The other typical remark is, "Although I have been allowed to eat everything I want, food just doesn't seem to interest me anymore and I am willing to continue your diet even after the cleanse."
Many patients notice that they are passing more urine and the swelling in their ankles has reduced, since they started the diet. On the day of the sixth injection, most patients declare that they feel fine and have usually lost one kg or more. Some say they feel a bit empty, but explain that it does not amount to hunger. Some complain of a mild headache, which is quite common and goes away in few hours.
Contra-indications
There are no contra-indications to the HCG method. Oral contraceptives may be used during the treatment. It can be continued in the presence of pus forming, large infected wounds and major fractures, or, during surgery, general anaesthesia or even fever or malaria.
Important
You should consult me before doing a Fat Cleanse, if you have ever had an allergic reaction to HCG or if you have: asthma; cancer or a tumour in the breast, ovary, uterus and prostate; epilepsy; heart disease; hypothalamus or pituitary gland disease; kidney disease; migraine; ovarian cyst; premature puberty; thyroid or adrenal gland disorder; undiagnosed uterine bleeding.
Tip
Family members and doctors are your well-wishers and will not allow you to take the risk. I am advocating this Fat Cleanse after trying it on myself, my family members and many close friends. A pregnant woman's placenta makes 100,000 to 300,000 IU of HCG, the excess of which she passes out through urine. I am talking about a dose of 125 IU per day. So, shed all fears from your mind.
Conclusion, and Further Courses
The HCG diet protocol method is not simple. But, simple treatments do not bring permanent results. When the abnormal cellulite fat leaves the body, you will feel unprecedented freshness, vigour and vitality. After the 26-days treatment, patients feel 10 years younger. I am not listing cures, but almost every medical problem improves after the Fat Cleanse.
The HCG method of losing weight is self-limiting. It becomes completely ineffective as soon as all abnormal fat is consumed. When a patient has more than 7 kgs to lose, the treatment takes longer, but the maximum dosage given in a single course is 40 injections. As a rule, patients should not lose more than 10 kgs at a time. The treatment is stopped when, either 10 kgs have been lost or 40 injections have been given. Patients' desiring to lose more weight can repeat the Fat Cleanse only after six month of the first cleanse.
Plan of a normal course
- 125 IU of HCG injections daily.
- Forced eating four days before and three days after start of the Fat Cleanse is necessary.
- After the 3rd injection, the 500-calorie diet to be started and continued for 72 hours (three days) after the last injection.
- After three weeks of completing the treatment, all food is allowed except starch and sugar in any form.
