Origins

Simeons was the recipient of the Red Cross Medal of Honor from the Queen for his distinguished work in several branches of medicine. He spent much of his professional life researching the causes, manifestations, the biochemical and physiological characteristics of obesity, and its cure. He refused to buy into the belief—still widely held—that people get fat because they eat too much or because they have no willpower. What he discovered is that where obesity exists there is a distortion in the functioning of the diencephalon—the weight control centre in the brain. When this is corrected, Simeons showed, excess weight is lost quite naturally.

Simeons found that when he gave overweight men and women a daily injection of tiny quantities of a natural protein-based substance called hCG, together with a highly specific low-calorie dietary program, these people were able to lose weight without hunger.

I was introduced to Cura Romana—The Roman Cure—for myself more than 20 years ago by a distinguished Bavarian doctor and good friend who had for many years used Simeons' protocol with his own patients. My doctor friend gave me a copy of Simeon's book, Pounds and Inches, to read. I read the book and was fascinated by what Simeons discovered. But I never believe anything unless I experience it for myself and, having wrestled with my own weight since adolescence I knew I needed to try it.

Every morning for three weeks I showed up at my doctor friend's office where his nurse injected me with 125 IU of hCG. I followed Simeons' Cura Romana dietary protocol to the letter.

To my amazement and delight, everything Simeons described in his book I experienced for myself. I was not hungry. I lost weight steadily with ease. I had energy to spare. I slept well each night and awakened each morning full of excitement about the day ahead. By the time the rapid weight loss part of the program was complete I realized that I had stumbled upon an extraordinary program which had worked wonders for my body. I had also discovered however that the Cura Romana protocol was only available to a privileged at exclusive clinics in various places around the world. I felt passionately that it needed to be made available to anyone who wanted to end their struggles with overweight once and for all.

Many years later, as a result of a series of accidents which resulted in serious injuries to my lower body, I regained the weight I had lost so once again I turned to the Roman Cure for help. With the help of my Bavarian doctor friend, I began the program using daily injections of hCG.

With my original fascination with Cura Romana reawakened, I began to search the internet to find out who was working with Simeon's Protocol and where and how. I came across a handful of doctors and naturopaths who had abandoned the use of injectable hCG in its drug form in favor of a homeopathic remedy derived from it.

Although I am a certified homeo-therapeutics consultant, I was highly skeptical that a homeopathic would work. Yet these men and women using it insisted that they got the same results for weight loss with the homeopathic as they did with the injectable form. I ordered two bottles of an American-made homeopathic to experiment with. They arrived in the post smack in the middle of the injectable program I had been following. The next day I stopped taking the injections and began using the homeopathic in its place. And I waited to see what would happen. Nothing changed. My weight continued to fall away until I had shed all the weight I needed to lose.

I then began working with John Morgan, a qualified pharmacist, to develop a homeopathic hCG that I could use with the people who were beginning to ask me about the Roman Cure. After a year and a half, John and I settled on the right combination of hCG potencies and Leslie Kenton's Cura Romana® came into being.

I began to work intensively with individual men and women throughout the world, using our homeopathic formula—mentoring them through the Roman Cure while developing our dietary protocol even further.

Simeons' original dietary protocol—'hCG + Food Plan'—lasted for three weeks after which his patients were encouraged just to return to a so-called "normal" way of eating for six weeks but minimizing starches and sugars. Yet Simeons reported that only 60-70% of his patients were able to maintain the weight they had shed long-term. Why? I think because he never worked out a complete, effective, practical program of helping them maintain weight lost longterm.

I worked on this issue for almost three years since I was determined to create a Consolidation program that, when followed to the letter, would enable people to identify the foods which their body thrives on and those which it does not handle well and therefore cause weight gain. Such foods are highly individual to each person. Once these two groups of foods are identified during our Consolidation protocol, people are able to eat as much as they like of the former without experiencing weight gain provided they shun the latter.

Then, during the second half of 2010, John Morgan began working to formulate and test a new product which could be made available to a much wider group of people who wanted to do the program but could not be personally mentored by me. By mid-December 2010 we had identified it. This was important since I had been writing a book, The Cura Romana Weightloss Plan which was to be published by Transworld's Bantam Press in January 2011. We transformed the original homeopathic into a complex vibrational essence—our Essential Spray—using a unique proprietary process similar to the way flower essences are made. In keeping with the book, we have continued to call the first part of the program 'hCG + Food Plan' in recognition of Simeons and his revolutionary work, although our new Essential Spray is no longer a homeopathic hCG formula.

Meanwhile, I continue to further enhance one aspect after another of the program making it ever more graceful and useful to all who are drawn to experience it. I was therefore touched by the praise Leon Hammer MD gave the program in a foreword to The Cura Romana Weighloss Plan book. He says: "Kenton has moved Simeons' work in a new direction by making these remarkable discoveries available to a great many people rather than only to those economically fortunate enough to afford to partake of it in clinics…she has engaged knowledgeable experts to assist her in developing the practical Protocol with which this book is concerned."

Praise be to Simeons and his pathfinding work. By now more than 200,000 people around the world have experienced the gifts of Cura Romana and come to sing its praises.