How to Know If Your HCG Is Real?

HCG or Human Chorionic Gonadotropin is a hormone that is produced during pregnancy. As a prescription medication, it is also used to help non-pregnant people lose fat. On an HCG diet, you receive injections of HCG and are put on a very low calorie diet. The HCG maintains your muscle tone so that you are predominantly losing fat. In more recent years, many companies have come out with over-the-counter versions of the hormone. You can also buy unregulated HCG online, but there are no guarantees that what you get will be the real thing. Using a pregnancy test is a fast way to tell if your HCG is real.

Things You'll Need

• HCG
• Clean syringe
• Pregnancy test

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Instructions

• 1

  Take the pregnancy test out of the container and read all the instructions. Pay particular attention to any graphics that show the difference between positive and negative results.

• 2

  Use a syringe to draw out 1 milliliter of HCG liquid from its bottle.

• 3

  Put the syringe needle up against the strip located at the end of the pregnancy test. Slowly spray the liquid onto the strip until the strip is wet.

• 4

  Wait 5 minutes or the time recommended by your pregnancy kit instructions.

• 5

  Read the result of the pregnancy test. If the test is positive, your HCG is real. If the result is negative, this indicates that there is no HCG present in the liquid you used on the pregnancy test, so the product you have is not real.