When it comes to detoxification, your liver does the heavy lifting of making sure that toxins are flushed from your body. Giving your liver a little help can make a big difference in getting the best results from your detox.

Though patients following the HCG diet restrict their calories quite a bit, this isn't a "crash" diet. What makes the HCG diet different is the hormone itself. HCG is a hormone that is usually associated with pregnancy -- for some pregnant women, it can cause feelings of nausea. In those who aren't pregnant, however, it reduces feelings of hunger. That allows patients following the diet to eat less without feeling terribly deprived. HGC encourages the body to produce more hormones, and because hormonal imbalances or deficiencies are so often the culprit behind weight gain, this is another way that HCG can aid in weight loss.

HCG's pro-hormone nature is also important because it impacts the way that you lose weight. HCG increases the presence of other hormones (like testosterone), helping the body to maintain muscle. If you're dieting just by restricting calories, your body turns to your muscle tissue for fuel -- and since muscle weighs more than fat, you might be excited to watch the numbers on the scale drop. But losing muscle is terrible for your overall health (impacting not just your strength but your metabolism), and while it's very difficult to regain the muscle, it's all too easy for your body to make up the deficit with fat. When calorie restriction is augmented with HCG, hormone receptors on your muscle fibers respond to the anabolic state that HCG produces. That means you're losing the fat you want to lose, not the muscle you need to maintain. 

In order to lose weight healthfully and maintain your weight loss, it's vital that you only undertake the HCG diet with a physician's supervision. While you may have seen products that claim to raise your HCG levels, the hormone levels can only effectively be raised using injections. Dr. Tang has helped many Rejuv� patients lose weight with the HCG diet, and can help you follow the diet safely and effectively to get the results you want.

Even if you don't have a serious sensitivity to chemicals, you've likely had the experience of having nausea, headache, or even worse symptoms induced by walking into a room that was just painted or driving in an area that's being paved. In these kinds of situations, it's obvious that you're being exposed to chemicals. In our modern world, however, you're exposed to chemicals at virtually all times, whether or not you're aware of it.