The clinicians at Northwest Center for Natural Medicine are excited to offer this hCG weight loss program to their patients!

In the 1950s and 60s, Dr. Simeons forwarded a unique interpretation on the nature of obesity based on his clinical observation and as a result formulated a very successful weight loss program. The key to his protocol is a low calorie diet paired up with a hormone called hCG.  In a nutshell, hCG triggers the body to use up stored abdominal fat for calories and at the same time acts upon the endocrine system to restore diencephalic disturbances (endocrine/hormone imbalances) and boost the body’s metabolism.  This treatment therefore not only helps individuals lose weight but helps them reset their metabolism thereby correcting one of the underlying imbalances that leads to obesity.  The diet entails either a 23 day or 43 day regime of a low fat diet paired with hCG shots or drops. 

The benefits of doing your hCG diet at the Northwest Center for Natural Medicine!

1. Weight Loss: You get the benefits of weight loss and resetting your metabolism so as to achieve a healthy weight and maintain it.
2. A comprehensive naturopathic health assessment and perspective on what environmental, genetic and physiological factors play  a role in an your weight issues so as to prevent this issue from arising in the future
3. Food allergy awareness- Dr. Plaza constructs the diet phases in a way that allows people to become aware food allergy or food sensitivities that were creating symptoms or inflammation in the body.  Many people while on the diet report a better sense of well-being, normalization in bowel function and a reduction of headaches or body pain.  Then weeks after the diet is over these symptoms return.  Using a food challenge phase at the end of the diet allows people to determine which foods have been at the root of their particular symptoms.
4. Medication reduction: Many individuals on the diet have been able to reduce or cease many prescription medications.  At a naturopathic physician’s office, since we can prescribe the medications we are able to monitor the cessation of the medications safely as well as add any natural supplements that may aid in this process.

In Defense of hCG as a weight loss tool

1. Is it naturopathic?  Many patients as well as health practitioners have brought up the issue of whether or not hCG is Naturopathic.  Adding a hormone, even the small amounts on the hCG protocol, is definitely not natural.  However, how people get to be overweight is not a natural process either.  It isn’t natural to consume 77 lbs or corn syrup per year, ingest growth hormones hidden in meat and dairy products, and present the body with the 400+ chemicals to detoxify daily, or present the body with the numbers of stressors from our environment.  All of these things have combined to slow down individual’s metabolism to the point where they can limit their caloric intake and not lose any weight.
2. Is this natural? Again, using hCG is not natural however, the hCG used at the Northwest Center is a bio identical natural hormone from a compounding pharmacy.
3. Is this risky?  Risks vs. Benefits:  Innumerable studies have shown an individual’s risk of cancers and heart disease are markedly reduced if there is a normalization of weight.  These benefits as well as the sense of well-being when an individual doesn’t have to obsess about weight far outweigh any risks associated with the diet. 

Doing the hCG Diet with trained clinicians

Dr. Simeons himself cautioned: "Frivolous engagement in the diet for the sole purpose of weight loss is not recommended. He warned that implementation of this diet should be done by a qualified physician who can correctly interpret the symptoms that arise, and determine the underlying physiological conditions that contribute to obesity.  This ensures a cure to the obesity and not just temporary weight loss."  

He also warned, "Any patient who thinks he can reduce weight by taking a few “shots&rdquo, doing a homeopathic version or simply following the diet without the hCG to rebalance the diencephalic disturbances is sure to be disappointed and may be heading for serious trouble."

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PLEASE NOTE: hCG is a prescription item and should only be dispensed through a certified pharmacy.   Many diet centers and online sites have popped up offering homeopathic hCG without any overseeing physician.  This form of hCG doesn’t require a prescription and is the homeopathic form meaning there is not one discernable molecule of hCG in the medicine but rather an energy signature of the hormone in the medicine.  Please be aware that there are no studies that show the homeopathic version is able to rebalance the diencephalic disturbance and correct the long term cause of the obesity.   Many patients report that weight loss occurs however, since it doesn’t correct the endocrine imbalance that led to the obesity the weight comes back on once they return to their normal diet.