The Countdown Program

The Countdown Program is based on the fantastic fat-mobilizing properties of the pregnancy hormone. This hormone is naturally produced in a woman’s body when she is pregnant and is responsible for controlling metabolic functions. The hormone allows the body to mobilize fat and use it for energy. This action is significant during times of starvation or low-calorie diets. It serves as a fail-safe mechanism when energy is needed immediately.

For weight loss, we use only minimal amounts of the medication to capitalize on this exact mechanism. Using the hormone in this way does NOT “mimic” pregnancy. Instead, it “tricks” your mind into changing its metabolism, helping to burn the fat. Both adult men and women can safely use it.

1. The hormone medication causes your hypothalamus to mobilize the fat out of the abnormal fat storage locations and makes it available for use. A low-calorie diet of 500 calories a day triggers your hypothalamus to change your body’s metabolism, so it continually releases the stored nutrients in the abnormal fat stored in your body. As a result, your body operates on thousands of calories a day, but most of these calories come from stored fat. Accordingly, your body borrows thousands of calories of fat from your abnormal fat stores, and you lose weight! This allows patients to lose .5 to 2 lbs of fat daily.
2. Maintains a standard basal metabolic rate. This meets your resting energy needs. If you do not preserve the intake of calories to equal your BMR, your body goes into conservation mode. In essence, your body wants to hold on to calories because it does not know when the next meal is coming. The hormone medication ensures you don’t go into this slower metabolism mode, so you continue to feel good while on the program and maintaining your energy levels.
3. Resets the hypothalamus to prevent future weight gain. After you’ve been on this diet for 28 days, your body will continue to crave the diet even after you stop using the medication. This resetting of your hypothalamic metabolism continues for a few days to a few weeks after stopping the hormone medication so you can continue to lose weight.

Normally when we cut back our calories and eat a low-calorie diet, our bodies tend to preserve fat and nutrient stores. Our hypothalamus sees that there are few calories in our blood, so it makes our metabolism slow down. Our body wants to conserve fat because fat is really a life-saving source of stored energy.

When this hormone is utilized with a low-calorie diet, however, the hormone causes the hypothalamus to signal to the body to mobilize the calories out of the abnormal fat storage locations and use these stored calories for energy burning to fuel our daily actions. The excess or abnormal fat reserves are reduced, and you lose weight. In fact, your body is operating on thousands of calories a day which enables you to lose .5 to 2 pounds of fat per day.

No, you must stick with the protocol. This protocol is successful only as directed. The unique combination of the hormone medication plus a rigorous calorie specific food consumption plan has been shown to work while other regimens have not.

Any variance away from these guidelines resulted in less success at losing weight. Thus, we only recommend strict adherence to the guidelines of the diet.

Much of it depends on your starting point. The more weight to lose, the more weight is lost. On average, our patients lose around 15-30 lbs. per month and up to 20 inches.

• Dramatic Weight Loss (lose up to 30 lbs & 20 inches in 40 days)
• Reduces hunger
• Burns stubborn body fat
• Controls food cravings
• Regulates blood sugar levels
• Increases metabolism
• Lowers bad cholesterol
• May be combined with an appetite suppressant prescription (if eligible)

You will receive daily injections of medication for 40 days along with comprehensive labs and EKG. Additionally, you will have an appointment with an NP and weekly weigh-ins. You will also receive weekly lipotropic/MIC and B Complex injections.