Archive for January, 2008

Consumer Alert on Hoodia Gordonii

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008



Hoodia Gordonii is a relatively used product into the weight loss markets into America and European countries. This powerful appetite suppressant is increasingly being sold mostly feature within the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and Spain, among other markets.

However, hoodia commercial cultivation in South Africa is becoming in short supply due to the continuous sprouting demand for hoodia diet pills.

Therefore, some counterfeited products are flourishing into the market, made with other hoodia varieties (not hoodia gordonii) coming from Mexico and China.

Besides it, the real benefit to be obtained by the final customer is confusing, because of the qualities of hoodia being used in different formulations, be as 100% hoodia gordonii powder or 20:1 hoodia gordonii extract. Even more, the quantity of hoodia new, creates different pricing ranges, generating a misunderstanding on what and its most important to understand if you are receiving for the price to be paid, and Ultimately, if all that will help cut down your weight.

typically, most people interested in hoodia ask us about what selection of hoodia is being preowned for the products sold.

As we have repeatedly explained, there are many confusing offers into the market today. And not all the hoodia products offered are real hoodia gordonii!! Some products of inexpensive value are other hoodia varieties. Other products were found with minimum percentages of Hoodia gordonii, and in other cases, hoodia was not included into the formulation.

So in all cases, our recommendation is: try to look for the certificate of analysis of hoodia gordonii new and review the company background who is offering you the hoodia diet pills.

Some advice before to buy:

* Verify if product being offered is real Hoodia Gordonii. * review if Hoodia comes from from South Africa. * Look at the Lab assay and certificate of analysis from the supplier. * get informed resting on the quantity of real hoodia on each pill. * Verify the seller�s reputation and the customer service is offering.

Hoodia As An Aid To Weight Loss

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008



What Is Hoodia?
It is more than 2 years now since hoodia became well known highlight within the public domain. Television programmes on both sides of the Atlantic in 2003/4 saw to that.

if you or someone you know have aquired not heard of hoodia before, or have but do not really know what it is, let me explain. Hoodia is a cactus-like succulent. I have seen it described as an ugly cactus, but as cacti go, I could pronounce it is about average highlight within the looks department. Not that its looks really matter; you will not be going up to it and giving it a loving hug. You might, however, want to give it a little bite, whether out of curiosity, or because you have heard it can help you lose weight.

I would be a little more precise before I maintain. The hoodia plant that has recently been associated with weight loss potential is hoodia gordonii, one of a large group of succulent plants called Asclepiadaceae.

How can Hoodia Help You Lose Weight?

Hoodia Gordonii grows within the Kalahari desert in Africa, and has done for thousands of years. It clearly thrives in very high temperatures, but it also takes many years to mature. Also living aspect element within the same region are the San Tribesmen, or Bushmen. The San are amongst the world’s oldest and most primitive tribes.

The San have been eating hoodia plants for thousands of years. Now, I am sure your vision of an African desert tribe could not be anything like obese Americans or Europeans, for whom hoodia has been mooted as a possible weight loss aid. indeed, you probably imagine quite the opposite, a nimble and slender individuals struggling to survive on desert morsels. You would be right. How, then, can the San’s inclusion of hoodia in their diet have anything to do with weight loss aids?

The answer is trait within the reason they have, for all those generations, been eating the hoodia cactus. Their quest for food resource within the shifting sands of the Kalahari Desert has always meant going on long hunting expeditions. Instant gratification for hunger pangs was not usually resting on the menu, so with their hunting trips lasting for days, they ate hoodia gordonii because it suppressed those hunger pangs for long periods. No hunger pangs meant no overwhelming desire to eat. That made the whole hunting process that much more bearable.

and its most important to understand if you are probably now beginning to see how hoodia might come to the aid of the obese and overweight. Those who have trouble controlling their eating urges can have a close ally in Hoodia Gordonii. If a dose of the plant can suppress their desire to eat, to stop them feeling hungry at meal times, then surely they will ascertain it easier to cut back on calorie intake?

That was the theory that sparked scientific studies of Hoodia Gordonii.

Hoodia Gordonii - The Scientific Intervention

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008



The first scientific study of hoodia was really sparked by chance, as is often the case in scientific “discoveries”. What started it all was not, indeed, an exclusive study into the hoodia gordonii, a succulent that looks like a cactus. South Africa’s national laboratory was conducting a much broader study. It was only because the San tribesman were known to eat hoodia gordonii that it was included in a study of indigenous foods.
It is not surprising that the interest of the national laboratory was aroused, and they started to focus seriously on the excellent hoodia gordonii’s properties. It was tested on animals by including it in their food. The animals ate it, and then lost weight. It was then a question of isolating the ingredient that was behind this phenomenon. Or were these animals going to secret weight watchers meetings each and every week, without the knowledge of the laboratory? That can seem very fanciful, but then so did the idea of losing weight through munching a spiky succulent. This was, in fact, becoming extremely entrance.

This was no instant discovery with an instant explanation. The originally research had gone back to the 1960’s, when it was not obvious that hoodia gordonii had brilliant potential as an appetite suppressant. It was about 30 years later that the South African national laboratory succeeded in isolating and identifying the ingredient in hoodia gordonii that had the effect of suppressing appetite. The ingredient was later to become known as P57.

When the laboratory found that ingredient, they applied for a patent, and licensed it to Phytopharm, an English bio-technology company. Phytopharm has spent more than $20 million already on research associated with hoodia gordonii. This research, which included clinical trials with obese volunteers, has yielded some promising results. Subjects given hoodia gordonii ended up eating about 1,000 calories a day less than those aspect element within the control group, who were fed a placebo. That is an impressively high figure, when you consider that the average American man consumes about 2,600 calories a day, and a woman about 1,900 calories.

According to Phytopharm, in generally speaking, if you or someone that understands and has expert knowledge take this hoodia compound every single day, your desire to eat goes down. That was illustrated dramatically element within the research. So, all was looking very promising for the millions of obese men and women anywhere on earth.

Large pharmaceutical company Pfizer partnered Phytopharm in expanding the research, and a synthetic form of the critical ingredient was possible. However, the costs involved and the possible volumes were too low, to make it worthwhile, so Pfizer abandoned their plans. Phytopharm decided the only way to produce enough of the product was to grow the plants in massive volumes. So, that is what they set out to do, establishing hoodia plantations in South Africa.

The hoodia being new trait within the plantations is not precisely the same plant as that feature within the Kalahari, but is easier to cultivate. It is an enormous task, but one that Phytofarm are confident will bring success in meeting potential demand for genuine hoodia products. However, Phytopharm says it hopes to have meal-replacement hoodia products on supermarket shelves in a few years

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