The Real Thing

The HCG Training Session. Meet Dr. Daniel Belluscio. Twenty–nine years ago, he was a young surgeon working with a plastic surgeon. His older colleague had heard about HCG for weight loss and began to use it with their patients. As Dr. Belluscio explained, it made their surgeries so much easier if their patients were not obese. And so it began. He went to Switzerland to study the HCG weight loss protocol for three months and stayed for ten years. He then returned to Argentina where he opened a practice dealing with HCG, and developed oral HCG. The initial protocol developed by Dr Simeons in the 1940s and 50s used injectible HCG. Dr Belluscio has worked with over 6,500 patients and has reviewed another 14,000 patients. He has never seen any negative side effects from this protocol.

He is a very pleasant looking, soft–spoken man, humble, modest, but full of knowledge. Within minutes, I knew I had come to the right place. He probably knows more about HCG than any living person right now. It is a privilege to learn from him.

Our training group is very small and I am delighted. It is wonderful to sit around the table with other physicians and talk “doctor talk”. It´s been a long time for me, and I have truly missed it and am glad to be going back into medicine. We have a very small group. There is Frankie, a female pediatrician from the Baltimore area who has been working with HCG for a short while. She came with Rene, who is a fitness trainer and owner of a Jazzercise facility and the two of them work together with HCG patients. I like them both very much. Then there is Mike, from New Jersey. He describes himself as an “alternative” doctor. And me. And another new doctor is coming today. During the morning, Dr Belluscio had at least three woman at all times sitting around him, bringing him coffee and food, fixing his computer, helping him with translation, etc. The course is in English and Dr Belluscio´s English is good.

During our lunch break, I went exploring again, and stopped at a coffee shop near the hotel for a hamburguesa with cheese (and no bread, of course). I am surprised, and pleasantly pleased, at how few people here speak English. I really believe that when a person is visiting a country, that person should make an attempt to communicate in the language of that country. And so I do. It´s amazing how far a smile will go. But I am now quite confident ordering in a restaurant and paying for my meal, all in Spanish. Besides, it makes for more fun adventures.

The day was long, but good. There is no way I can write here everything I have been learning, and besides, it was fairly medically technical. But I will say this. Dr. Belluscio is the real thing. HCG is the real thing. This method has proven safe now for over half a century, and has been used on many thousands of patients. And I can hardly wait to return home and start my own practice with this.

In the evening, Frankie, Rene, Mike and Frankie´s son James and his friend Darryl and myself all went out for dinner. We were told of a good steak house just three blocks from the hotel and off we went. We talked and drank and ate and had a wonderful evening before returning to the hotel. I then did all my notes from the day´s training, and at too late an hour, fell into bed.