HCG Diet Side Effects HCG is a hormone produced by the female body during pregnancy to help the fetus grow. Health practitioners sometimes recommend HCG injections to treat fertility problems in women and hormonal issues such as hypogonadism in men. The HCG diet is a very low-calorie diet combined with injections of the outlawed supplement called HCG. HCG is an abbreviation for human chorionic gonadotrophin, a hormone produced by the placenta. Keep in mind that the HCG diet is in no way related to pregnancy. The HCG diet first became common in the 50s. Its sponsors claimed that HCG injections
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