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WHAT IS HOODIA?
Hoodia is a succulent plant which is often mistaken for a member of the cactus family.
The Hoodia plant resembles a cactus, but that is as far as that relationship goes. There
are many different varieties of Hoodia plants, with Hoodia Gordonii being the one which
has been identified as having the molecule which acts as an appetite suppressant.
WHERE EXACTLY DOES HOODIA COME FROM?
The particular Hoodia Gordonii plants which have the appetite suppressant qualities
come from the Kalahari region of Southern Africa. Used by the indigenous San
Bushmen for many years they were the first to discover the appetite suppressing qualities
of this plant. The Bushmen would frequently go out on long hunting trips and chew on a
local plant to reduce hunger and increase energy, and that plant of course was Hoodia
Gordonii.
It wasn’t until the mid 60’s that the first research was done on Hoodia Gordonii as an
appetite suppressant. Even then it took another 30 years for the South African
laboratories to isolate the specific appetite suppressing ingredient. This ingredient was
called P57 or (P-57). It was one thought that the major pharmaceutical companies could
make a synthetic version of P57. This turned out to be very cost prohibitive so that idea
was never implemented.
The Hoodia Gordonii plant is very fickle. It needs just the right climate and soil to grow
and have its appetite suppressant effect. Attempts to grow Hoodia in places other than
the Kalahari in South Africa have proved fruitless. Beware of companies that state they
are getting their Hoodia from farms in the U.S., Mexico, or China. It’s not happening.
True Perfect Hoodia ONLY comes from the Kalahari.
WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT HOODIA TRULY WORKS AS AN
APPETITE SUPPRESSANT?
While the Bushmen didn’t do formal clinical studies, there are thousands of years of real
world evidence that eating Hoodia works as an appetite suppressant. There is also a
growing body of journalists who can attest to the powers of Hoodia. Here is a piece of
the transcript from 60 Minutes that aired in Nov. 2004
Leslie Stahl says she had no after effects – no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy
stomach, and no racing heart. She also wasn’t hungry all day, even when she would
normally have a pang around mealtime. And, she also had no desire to eat or drink the
entire day. “I’d have to say it did work,” says Stahl.
-Leslie Stahl reporting on CBS News 60 Minutes
Tom Mangold, a correspondent from the BBC News reporting the following after eating
Hoodia from the Kalahari Desert:
At about 1800hrs I ate about half a banana size (piece of hoodia gordonii)-and later so
did my cameraman. Soon after, we began the four hour drive back to Capetown.
The plant is said to have a feel-good almost aphrodisiac quality, and I have to say, we
felt good. But more significantly, we did not even think about food. Our brains really
were telling us we were full. It was a magnificent deception.
Dinner time came and went. We reached our hotel at about midnight and went to bed
without food. And the next day, neither of us wanted nor ate breakfast.
-Tom Mangold, BBC News reporting on 5/30/03
I ate lunch but without appetite and very little pleasure. Partial then full appetite
returned slowly after 24 hours.
SO HOW EXACTLY DOES HOODIA WORK IN MY BODY?
The molecule P57 in the Hoodia imitates the effect that glucose has on nerve cells in the
brain. Basically, Hoodia fools the brain into thinking it’s full when it’s not. This cuts your
urge to snack and eat unhealthy food. There is a part of your brain, the hypothalamus.
Within that mid-brain there are nerve cells that sense glucose sugar.
When you eat, blood sugar goes up because of the food, these cells start firing and you
feel full. What the Hoodia seems to contain is a molecule that is about 10,000 times as
active as glucose. It goes to the mid-brain and actually makes those nerve cells fire as if
you were full. But you have not eaten and do not want to.
ARE THERE ANY SIDE EFFECTS FROM TAKING HOODIA OR P57?
There have not been any side effects reported from eating hoodia or from taking the P-
57 molecule. Remember, for thousands of years the Bushmen have eating Hoodia
Gordonii plants with no ill side effects.
SO I’ll NEVER BE HUNGRY RIGHT?
No, not exactly. We all need to eat to survive. You can’t completely starve your body no
matter how much Hoodia you eat. Your brain will figure out that you do need food to
function. Feeling hungry because your insulin levels are bouncing all over the place is
called hormonal hunger. It is this hormonal hunger which does in most people’s diets.
When our blood sugar levels spike we crave more sweets and carbohydrates. This is
why you might crave ice cream at 3:00 a.m.
The idea of Hoodia Gordonii is to use it to stop snacking because of the hormonal
hunger. You want to continue to eat meals when you have real hunger, but eliminate the
snacking due to hormonal hunger. Eliminate those cravings when you really don’t need
any food.
When you do eat a meal after taking Hoodia, you will feel full faster and stop eating
sooner.
HOW CAN I KNOW THE HOODIA GORDONII I’M GETTING IS
THE REAL DEAL?
There are a lot of hoodia supplements on the market today that are CHEAP and NOT
EFFECTIVE. Here’s what to look for when purchasing a top quality 100% Hoodia
Gordonii product.
• There are over 20 species of Hoodia plant. Only the Hoodia Gordonii has shown to
suppress appetite.
• It is well known that only Hoodia grown in the Kalahari Desert has this strong appetite
suppressant effect. Growing Hoodia Gordonii is a long difficult process. There is a
limited supply in the Kalahari, with the demand much higher than the supply, driving
prices up. Cheap hoodia supplements often use hoodia grown elsewhere. Those DO
NOT suppress appetite, yet they can still claim they are 100% Hoodia.
• It is the heart of the Hoodia Gordonii plant that contains the P57 molecule to suppress
appetite. The skin, roots, seeds are all useless when it comes to suppressing appetite.
Many of the cheaper supplements use all of the plant which means you’d really be getting
only 30% to 40% of the effective Hoodia Gordonii in each supplement.
• The South African Government regulates the farms that grow Hoodia Gordonii so, any
company that is legally harvesting Hoodia HAS to pay royalties. Additionally Hoodia is a
protected plant so it is illegal to harvest wild hoodia from the Kalahari.
• REAL HOODIA is EXPENSIVE TO GROW, process and bottle. Cheap Hoodia
supplements are probably fake.
We advocate only Hoodia supplements for which there is a CITES certification showing
the product was originally from Africa.
Hoodia is a succulent plant which is often mistaken for a member of the cactus family.
The Hoodia plant resembles a cactus, but that is as far as that relationship goes. There
are many different varieties of Hoodia plants, with Hoodia Gordonii being the one which
has been identified as having the molecule which acts as an appetite suppressant.
WHERE EXACTLY DOES HOODIA COME FROM?
The particular Hoodia Gordonii plants which have the appetite suppressant qualities
come from the Kalahari region of Southern Africa. Used by the indigenous San
Bushmen for many years they were the first to discover the appetite suppressing qualities
of this plant. The Bushmen would frequently go out on long hunting trips and chew on a
local plant to reduce hunger and increase energy, and that plant of course was Hoodia
Gordonii.
It wasn’t until the mid 60’s that the first research was done on Hoodia Gordonii as an
appetite suppressant. Even then it took another 30 years for the South African
laboratories to isolate the specific appetite suppressing ingredient. This ingredient was
called P57 or (P-57). It was one thought that the major pharmaceutical companies could
make a synthetic version of P57. This turned out to be very cost prohibitive so that idea
was never implemented.
The Hoodia Gordonii plant is very fickle. It needs just the right climate and soil to grow
and have its appetite suppressant effect. Attempts to grow Hoodia in places other than
the Kalahari in South Africa have proved fruitless. Beware of companies that state they
are getting their Hoodia from farms in the U.S., Mexico, or China. It’s not happening.
True Perfect Hoodia ONLY comes from the Kalahari.
WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT HOODIA TRULY WORKS AS AN
APPETITE SUPPRESSANT?
While the Bushmen didn’t do formal clinical studies, there are thousands of years of real
world evidence that eating Hoodia works as an appetite suppressant. There is also a
growing body of journalists who can attest to the powers of Hoodia. Here is a piece of
the transcript from 60 Minutes that aired in Nov. 2004
Leslie Stahl says she had no after effects – no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy
stomach, and no racing heart. She also wasn’t hungry all day, even when she would
normally have a pang around mealtime. And, she also had no desire to eat or drink the
entire day. “I’d have to say it did work,” says Stahl.
-Leslie Stahl reporting on CBS News 60 Minutes
Tom Mangold, a correspondent from the BBC News reporting the following after eating
Hoodia from the Kalahari Desert:
At about 1800hrs I ate about half a banana size (piece of hoodia gordonii)-and later so
did my cameraman. Soon after, we began the four hour drive back to Capetown.
The plant is said to have a feel-good almost aphrodisiac quality, and I have to say, we
felt good. But more significantly, we did not even think about food. Our brains really
were telling us we were full. It was a magnificent deception.
Dinner time came and went. We reached our hotel at about midnight and went to bed
without food. And the next day, neither of us wanted nor ate breakfast.
-Tom Mangold, BBC News reporting on 5/30/03
I ate lunch but without appetite and very little pleasure. Partial then full appetite
returned slowly after 24 hours.
SO HOW EXACTLY DOES HOODIA WORK IN MY BODY?
The molecule P57 in the Hoodia imitates the effect that glucose has on nerve cells in the
brain. Basically, Hoodia fools the brain into thinking it’s full when it’s not. This cuts your
urge to snack and eat unhealthy food. There is a part of your brain, the hypothalamus.
Within that mid-brain there are nerve cells that sense glucose sugar.
When you eat, blood sugar goes up because of the food, these cells start firing and you
feel full. What the Hoodia seems to contain is a molecule that is about 10,000 times as
active as glucose. It goes to the mid-brain and actually makes those nerve cells fire as if
you were full. But you have not eaten and do not want to.
ARE THERE ANY SIDE EFFECTS FROM TAKING HOODIA OR P57?
There have not been any side effects reported from eating hoodia or from taking the P-
57 molecule. Remember, for thousands of years the Bushmen have eating Hoodia
Gordonii plants with no ill side effects.
SO I’ll NEVER BE HUNGRY RIGHT?
No, not exactly. We all need to eat to survive. You can’t completely starve your body no
matter how much Hoodia you eat. Your brain will figure out that you do need food to
function. Feeling hungry because your insulin levels are bouncing all over the place is
called hormonal hunger. It is this hormonal hunger which does in most people’s diets.
When our blood sugar levels spike we crave more sweets and carbohydrates. This is
why you might crave ice cream at 3:00 a.m.
The idea of Hoodia Gordonii is to use it to stop snacking because of the hormonal
hunger. You want to continue to eat meals when you have real hunger, but eliminate the
snacking due to hormonal hunger. Eliminate those cravings when you really don’t need
any food.
When you do eat a meal after taking Hoodia, you will feel full faster and stop eating
sooner.
HOW CAN I KNOW THE HOODIA GORDONII I’M GETTING IS
THE REAL DEAL?
There are a lot of hoodia supplements on the market today that are CHEAP and NOT
EFFECTIVE. Here’s what to look for when purchasing a top quality 100% Hoodia
Gordonii product.
• There are over 20 species of Hoodia plant. Only the Hoodia Gordonii has shown to
suppress appetite.
• It is well known that only Hoodia grown in the Kalahari Desert has this strong appetite
suppressant effect. Growing Hoodia Gordonii is a long difficult process. There is a
limited supply in the Kalahari, with the demand much higher than the supply, driving
prices up. Cheap hoodia supplements often use hoodia grown elsewhere. Those DO
NOT suppress appetite, yet they can still claim they are 100% Hoodia.
• It is the heart of the Hoodia Gordonii plant that contains the P57 molecule to suppress
appetite. The skin, roots, seeds are all useless when it comes to suppressing appetite.
Many of the cheaper supplements use all of the plant which means you’d really be getting
only 30% to 40% of the effective Hoodia Gordonii in each supplement.
• The South African Government regulates the farms that grow Hoodia Gordonii so, any
company that is legally harvesting Hoodia HAS to pay royalties. Additionally Hoodia is a
protected plant so it is illegal to harvest wild hoodia from the Kalahari.
• REAL HOODIA is EXPENSIVE TO GROW, process and bottle. Cheap Hoodia
supplements are probably fake.
We advocate only Hoodia supplements for which there is a CITES certification showing
the product was originally from Africa.
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Dr. Richard Goldfarb thinks it works. He is
the medical director of research and
development at Bucks County Clinical
Research. He says Hoodia isn't a
stimulant but it works on the brain.
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Nov. 29, 2004
Now along comes hoodia. Never heard
of it? Soon it'll be tripping off your
tongue, because hoodia is a natural
substance that literally takes your
appetite away.
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of it? Soon it'll be tripping off your
tongue, because hoodia is a natural
substance that literally takes your
appetite away.
read more +
Nov. 21, 2004
Imagine this: an organic pill that kills
the appetite and attacks obesity. It
has no known side-effects, and
contains a molecule that fools your
brain into believing you are full.
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the appetite and attacks obesity. It
has no known side-effects, and
contains a molecule that fools your
brain into believing you are full.
read more +
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