Hoodia Gordonii

Hoodia Gordonii

Every year, people spend over $50 billion on weight loss products designed to help them lose weight.
Most of them do not seem to work very well. Then along came hoodia gordonii. Hoodia is a natural substance that significantly reduces your appetite. The obvious result is that if you have less of an appetite you will eat less which leads to weight loss. A simple yet powerful concept that seems to be working for millions of people around the world. The discovery of the active ingredient in the Hoodia gordonii plant is proven with clinical research to suppress one’s appetite calorie reduction.
	Hoodia is very different from diet drug stimulants such as ephedra and phenfen both of which have recently been banned because of their dangerous side effects.
Hoodia Gordonii is not a stimulate at all. Experts have found that it fools the brain which makes you think you are full, regardless of how much (or how little) you have had to eat. Hoodia has been included in the diet of South Africa’s Sans Bushmen for many centuries. Now word of this amazing product is spreading like wildfire and taking the consumer market by storm.
When choosing a Hoodia product you should know that there are multiple varieties of the hoodia plant, but only the gordonii species provides the appetite suppressing quality. Hoodia Gordonii Plus is 100% all-natural vegetable, Hoodia gordonii is a natural cactus like plant that grows naturally in Africa.
The active ingredient found in hoodia gordonii which causes the appetite suppressing effects is called P57. The most important point for consumers is to make sure you are buying a product that contains genuine South African Hoodia Gordonii. Found deep in the Kalahari desert, Hoodia Gordonii is a succulent plant that looks like a small cactus.
	Consumers should also be made aware of the fact that hoodia not only reduces your appetite but also reduces your thirst. For generations, the San Bushmen have eaten Hoodia to control both hunger and thirst as they roam the Kalahari desert.
Therefore it is important to drink plenty of water to maintain your bodies hydration. No other harmful side effects have been associated with taking hoodia diet supplements. The relative safety of taking hoodia can be evidenced by the lack of adverse effects on South Africa’s Bushmen. It has been in their food chain for centuries to suppress their hunger on long hunting trips.
Hoodia has a broad appeal for several reasons. The most important reason so many people choose hoodia is that it works. We only use 100% pure South African Hoodia from the Kalahari Desert in Hoodia Gordonii Plus and are proud to display the certificates to prove it.
Another appealing factor is that hoodia is a natural rather than synthetic chemical. Hoodia Gordonii is most often referred to incorrectly as a cactus but more accurately hoodia is a cactus like succulent. The fact that hoodia is technically not a cactus is not a significant point but is worth mentioning.
Even though hoodia is quite effective it should not be seen as a complete cure all for weight loss. A healthy lifestyle, including proper diet and exercise play a vital role in long term weight management success. However using hoodia can make eating less much easier for almost anyone. As with any supplements check with your doctor for any particular health concerns you may have.

Doctor Recommended Hoodia Gordonii

There are various species of hoodia, but the Gordonii variation is the only one that contains the all-natural appetite suppressant. Tbis type of hoodia contains a molecule that has similar effects on nerve cells as glucose, and tricks the brain into the sensation of fullness. Results of human clinical trials in Britain suggest that hoodia may reduce the appetite by hundreds of calories a day or more.

In a BBC interview, Phytopharm’s Dr. Richard Dixey explained how P57 works:

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 now you are 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. Nor do you want to.

Unlike anything that has been on the market before, Hoodia is not only an empty promise. Hoodia can help you to loose weight, and to keep it down in the long term.

What is Hoodia Gordonii?

Hoodia is a genus of succulent plants in the family Apocynaceae that is widely used traditionally by the San people of southern Africa as an appetite suppressant, thirst quencher and as a cure for severe abdominal cramps, hemorrhoids, tuberculosis, indigestion, hypertension and diabetes. Various uses have been recorded among Anikhwe (Northern Botswana), Haiom (northern Namibia ), Khomani (north western South Africa ), and the !Xun and Khwe (originally from Angola ) communities. Less is known about the use of this group of plants by other indigenous people, but some records show limited use of Hoodia parts as food items, albeit not as preferred food items. Hoodias are known to be used for cultural purposes in some areas (Hargreaves and Turner, 2002). Although relatively difficult to cultivate, Hoodia is an attractive plant and is also used for horticultural purposes.

Hoodia Gordonii CSIR The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa isolated an active compound (P57) for appetite suppression from Hoodia Gordonii. The CSIR licensed the rights for further development of P57 and the setting up of a sustainable production system to Phytopharm in the UK . Phytopharm in turn sub licensed the rights to Pfizer for the development and global commercialization. Pfizer has recently returned the clinical developmental rights.