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Involving the use of certain hormone, how can HCG diet help you to lose weight quickly and naturally? If you are interested to know, you have taken the right step by reading this article.

If you are practicing this dietary technique, you need to take some HCG drops. HCG is a type of glycoprotein hormone that appears during pregnancy. This HCG hormone is generated during the development of embryo after conception. This glycoprotein HCG hormone is constructed from 224 amino acids. Such hormone really helps nourish the fetus as they burn the stored fats in the moms’ body.

It was Dr. A.T. W. Simeons, who introduced the use of HCG for obesity in his study in 1954. That is why the weight loss theory and practice are well known as Simeons Therapy. The diet using HCG employed a strict calorie diet with each day amounts limited to only 500 calories. Such diet program also required the dieters to take HCG drops daily.

At that time, Simeons found that the subjects were experiencing the rapid weight loss after 3 weeks. And amazingly, they did not feel hungry even their calorie were limited. There would be fat loss around the hips, buttock, thighs and stomach. Nowadays, there are many people perform this HCG diet to lose their weight dramatically up to 30 pounds in only a month.

Recurrent outbreaks of herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2) or “genital herpes” can be treated effectively with a one-day therapy with valacyclovir (Valtrex), according to results of a pilot study published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

To Dr. Stephen K. Tyring, Center for Health Sciences at the University of Texas in Houston, brought together 115 patients with recurrent HSV2 infection.

Patients received therapy one-day valacyclovir 4,000 milligrams (mg) in two doses of 2,000 mg, at the earliest signs of recurrence.

Participants performed monitoring the duration of their symptoms in diaries and collected genital swabs for viral cultures that were made 14 days after initiation of therapy. Read the rest of this entry »

There is no cure for Guillain-Barre syndrome. However, there are many treatments available to reduce symptoms, treat complications and speed recovery.

When symptoms are severe, the patient will need to go to hospital for breathing help, treatment and physiotherapy.

A method called plasmapheresis is used to remove proteins called antibodies in the blood. The process involves drawing blood from the body, usually the arm, pump it to a machine that removes the antibodies, then send it back to the body.

Therapy with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is another treatment used to reduce the severity and duration of symptoms of Guillain-Barre syndrome. In this case, the immunoglobulins are added to the blood in large amounts, blocking antibodies that cause inflammation. Read the rest of this entry »