Ruthie Harper, MD

weight loss

Have you been battling the bulge for a long time? Or do you simply want to drop those extra pounds that never seem to go away? Whatever your weight loss goals may be, Dr. Ruthie Harper offers the most advanced and successful medical weight loss program available today.

Dr. Harper has helped hundreds of patients successfully lose weight for over 10 years. Her Weight Loss Resistance & Health Mastery Program combines the fat-burning advantages of the Simeon *hCG Protocol with the clinically proven success of her comprehensive weight loss resistance and lifestyle management program. The result is a highly effective, medically supervised program that delivers the following significant health benefits:

• Lose fat quickly, on average .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 caused 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!

Internet, magazine, and radio ads everywhere are promoting hCG as the solution to all 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.

If you dedicate the time, effort, and expense to participate in a weight loss program, don’t you want and deserve both a short-term solution for losing the weight and a long-term solution for keeping it off?

At Nutritional Medicine Associates, we help our patients become part of the small percentage of people who lose weight successfully and keep it off for the long term. Our program not only helps you get the weight off fast, but also teaches you how to keep it off and maintain good health. We address the lifestyle and metabolic issues that prevent you from losing fat and instead cause your body to pack on the pounds.

Only Nutritional Medicine Associates offers hCG within a clinically proven medical program designed to identify and address the underlying issues that cause weight gain and prevent successful weight loss.

Lose Weight Fast & Reset Your Metabolism

Millions of Americans resolve each year to lose weight, but most are unsuccessful because it takes so long to see visible results and achieve desired weight loss goals. That’s why Dr. Harper integrated the Simeon hCG Protocol with her successful Weight Loss Resistance & Health Mastery Program. Patients can lose up to 34 pounds in only 40 days, often with losses averaging from 0.5 to 2 pounds a day. The rapid weight loss produces noticeable results and encourages you to stick to the protocol. Patients who successfully complete the program achieve not only a fabulous new lean body, but also a higher metabolism that promotes long-term success.

With the *hCG portion of the program, patients take a small daily injection of the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin hormone and follow a very specific low-calorie diet. The hormone activates your hypothalamic-pituitary axis and signals your body to speed up fat tissue metabolism. As a result your body burns stored fat for energy and eliminates any excess. The hCG makes your body believe you are getting about 2000 calories each day, so you don’t have hunger issues and your body doesn’t go into starvation mode. The end result is a higher metabolic rate and a new fat set point, making it more difficult to gain back the weight you lose.

Lower Disease Risk & Lose Unhealthy Fat

Excess body fat greatly increases your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other degenerative illnesses. Fat accumulation around your waist is more dangerous than other areas of fat accumulation, so as your waist size increases, so does your risk of disease. Abdominal fat is typically the most stubborn to lose, and most diets don’t work on a metabolic level necessary to break into and burn these locked fat stores. With hCG, your body mobilizes the stored fat and releases it into your bloodstream as fuel. The low-calorie diet prevents your body from refilling the empty fat cells, and the extra calories and nutrients in your blood keep hunger and cravings under control.

Losing unhealthy and aesthetically unappealing pounds from your midsection reduces your waistline as well as your risk of associated diseases.

Maintain Lean Muscle While Losing Fat

While it’s true you can lose weight by significantly reducing your calorie consumption, you’ll most likely lose muscle first because your body kicks into starvation mode and holds onto fat. Simply eating fewer calories also slows down your metabolism, making it even harder to lose weight—and much easier to gain it back! A significant benefit of the hCG portion of Dr. Harper’s program is that hCG burns fat without affecting your lean muscle mass. Each week during the program, we conduct a body composition to ensure you maintain lean muscle mass while losing only unhealthy body fat.

Address Underlying Issues that Cause Weight Gain

Most people are unsuccessful at losing weight because the reasons we gain weight is much more complex than consuming too many calories and not exercising enough. 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 cause weight gain in the first place.

Dr. Harper’s Weight Loss Resistance & Health Mastery Program with hCG 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. The result is a program that is not only extremely successful at helping you achieve your ideal weight, but also maintaining this weight for a lifetime.

Come join our family of patients who have achieved weight loss success, health, and happiness!

*The FDA requires the following statement concerning the use of hCG for weight loss:

hCG is a hormone 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.