Ruthie Harper, MD

Weight Loss & hCG

Whether you’ve been battling the bulge for a long time or simply want to drop that hard-to-lose fat around your mid-section, Dr. Ruthie Harper offers the most advanced and successful medical weight loss program available today.

Dr. Harper’s program combines the fat-burning advantages of the Simeon *hCG Protocol with her comprehensive weight loss resistance and lifestyle management program. The result is a highly effective, medically supervised program that delivers both short- and long-term health benefits:

• Lose fat quickly, on average 0.5 to 2 pounds per day, without hunger or craving issues.
• Reset your metabolism to a higher level that works more effectively and efficiently to burn excess body fat and stay lean long after completing the program.
• Lose unhealthy body fat while maintaining healthy lean body mass.
• Decrease risk of disease (hypertension, diabetes, heart disease) by reducing unhealthy abdominal fat around your organs.
• Promote healing of your thyroid, adrenal, and immune systems by eliminating food allergy triggers and reducing stress on your gastrointestinal tract.
• Identify and address the underlying behavioral and metabolic issues that cause you to gain weight in the first place.
• Keep the weight off that you lose—making you one of the few to achieve long-term weight loss success!

Maintain Lean Muscle & Increase Metabolism

Reducing calories alone may help you lose weight, but you’ll likely lose muscle because your body kicks into starvation mode and holds onto fat. Eating fewer calories also slows down your metabolism, making it even harder to lose weight—and much easier to gain it back!

The hCG portion of Dr. Harper’s program helps you burn fat while maintaining muscle. With hCG, you take a small daily injection of the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin hormone and follow a specific, low-calorie diet. The hCG activates your hypothalamic-pituitary axis and signals your body to burn stored fat and use it for energy. The hCG also makes your body believe you’re getting about 2500 calories a day, so you don’t have hunger or craving issues.

The end result is a higher metabolism and a new metabolic set point, making it more difficult to gain back the weight you lose.

Lose Unhealthy Fat & KEEP IT OFF

Advertisements everywhere are promoting hCG as “the solution” to all your weight gain problems. While hCG does offer unique aspects that promote rapid weight loss for many, hCG is simply a means to an end. hCG can help you get the weight off, but hCG won’t keep the weight off unless you also address the reasons you gained weight in the first place.

Being overweight is a symptom and an indication that something’s not working right in your body. To lose weight and keep it off, you have to take a look inside and fix the underlying health and behavioral issues that affect your ability to lose weight.

Dr. Harper’s hCG medical weight loss program includes weekly visits in our office where we address your individual weight loss obstacles and resistance factors, monitor your progress, and provide medical support while educating you on key areas that are critical to losing weight, keeping it off, and maintaining good health.

Address Issues that Cause Weight Gain

Millions of Americans try each year to lose weight, but most are unsuccessful because it takes so long to see visible results and to keep the weight off. At Nutritional Medicine Associates, we help our patients become part of the small percentage of people who lose weight successfully and then keep it off for the long term.

orking together, we address the lifestyle and metabolic issues that prevent you from losing fat and instead cause your body to pack on the pounds. Excess body fat greatly increases your risk of degenerative illnesses like heart disease and diabetes, and fat accumulation around your waist is more dangerous than other areas of fat accumulation on your body. So as your waist size increases, so does your risk of serious illness and disease.

Only Nutritional Medicine Associates offers hCG within a clinically proven medical program that addresses the underlying issues that cause you to gain weight and prevent you from keeping it off. Call us today at 512.343.9355 to schedule a free consultation and join our family of patients who have achieved weight loss success, health, and happiness!

*FDA Statement: hCG is approved by the FDA for the treatment of certain problems of the male reproductive system and in stimulating ovulation in women who have had difficulty becoming pregnant. No evidence has been presented, however, to substantiate claims for hCG as a weight-loss aid.