HCG Diet Woman measuring her waist beside a healthy meal and HCG vial during a medically supervised weight loss program.

How the HCG Diet Works for Rapid, Medically Supervised Weight Loss

People looking into the HCG diet for weight loss are usually referring to the HCG diet, a structured program that pairs human chorionic gonadotropin with significant calorie restriction. The approach is often associated with rapid changes on the scale, but HCG itself is not FDA-approved for weight loss, and current evidence does not show that…