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The Best Hoodia

Aug 23

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100% real Hoodia gordonii. The purified extract of Hoodia gordonii, P57, researched by Phytopharm. Supplements containing hoodia gordonii. All of the above claim to be natural appetite suppressants, the answer to weight loss and possibly cures to obesity. But does hoodia gordonii really work? The above question asked by many people about the efficacy of hoodia gordonii as an appetite suppressant does not have a ready answer.

The San bushmen in the Kalahari Desert used hoodia gordonii. When going on long hunting expeditions or foraging for food, the Bushmen would eat the fleshy part of this plant to stave off hunger and thirst, until they found something they could eat.

Scientists at Phytopharm isolated an active substance in hoodia gordonii and named it P57. This purified extract was injected into the brains of laboratory rats and altered the levels of ATP in the hypothalamus, a part of the brain known to control hunger, thirst, blood sugar, etc. They hypothesized that this may have been the reason that hoodia gordonii acted as an appetite suppressant, since the increased levels of APT, a neurotransmitter as well as an energy source to all the cells in the body probably sent signals indicating that food was not required. Many nutritionists and dieticians today recommend eating every two hours or eating many small meals a day – to keep our blood sugar levels stabilized and prevent “bingeing”. The elevated levels of APT from ingesting hoodia gordonii possibly keep the blood sugar levels high enough to prevent the sensation of hunger.

Now human beings, on the other hand, are not animals in laboratories and we tend to eat whenever we feel like it for a variety of reasons, hunger not necessarily being one of them.

Hoodia gordonii has been proved (in limited trial runs) to suppress hunger pangs, but how often does one eat because one is “hungry”? We snack at any time, and often eat merely for the taste sensation. The San Bushmen did not eat hoodia gordonii to “lose weight”. They ate it only when necessary – when food was not available and they wanted to stave off the pain of hunger pangs, while they foraged for their next meal.

Observations from physicians, comments from consumers, limited researches and clinical trials that have been conducted so far, do indicate that 100% real Hoodia gordonii has shown results on many people. No long term research has been carried out, nor has there been any thorough clinical trial subjected to a peer-review process, so going by only the known results today, the answer to the question appears to be that. Hoodia gordonii may well help a person through the early difficult phases of a lifestyle change to a healthier life, when real and psychological hunger pangs are at their worst. If one can then follow a healthy meal plan, supplemented by exercise and make this the new lifestyle to be maintained, then possibly hoodia gordonii will have done its job.

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Hoodia Dangers

Aug 23

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Hoodia gordonii is a natural substance that causes suppression of hunger and thirst. Apart from this exciting effect to dieters, research on hoodia gordonii has not shown any other side effects. The purified extract of hoodia gordonii, known as P57 has been injected into the brains of rats and no toxicity has been noted. Volunteers that took part in the clinical trials run by Phytopharm did not suffer from any adverse side effects, and neither have doctors reported any in the patients that they monitored. No words of warning or any cautions have been issued so far, though it would certainly be prudent to wait until a more thorough and long term study is carried out on hoodia gordonii.

The dangers of Hoodia gordonii lie in other spheres. Companies using this product are combining it with other supplements, and here, no proper or formal clinical trials have been run. For example, hoodia gordonii is sold combined with green tea, and while green tea itself has long been known for its antioxidant qualities, it also contains caffeine and is a stimulant. Users of Hoodia gordonii complaining of insomnia, headaches and nervousness were found to have been taking it with green tea. Hoodia gordonii itself has no stimulant properties, but the effects of green tea and other natural stimulants containing caffeine are well documented, namely an increase in heart rate and blood pressure as well as migraines.

Anyone wishing to start a weight loss program using hoodia gordonii would be well advised to do so under the guidance of a physician. It is also necessary to check the ingredients listed on the product as well, as some companies have used a very tiny percentage of hoodia gordonii, the bulk of the medication being “other ingredients”. Hoodia gordonii used in conjunction with these “other ingredients” has not been put to the test. Hoodia gordonii is presently being marketed in pills, capsules, milk shakes, diet fruit bars, and even lollipops, to name a few of the combinations available. Before buying Hoodia gordonii, do check that the label has USDA certification. Hoodia gordonii is imported from Africa and therefore the label must have a CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) certification as well. The label must also name the certified laboratory that has authenticated the presence of hoodia gordonii in the product you have purchased. This is to ensure that you are buying an authentic product from a certified source.

Early trials have shown that hoodia gordonii does indeed suppress appetite, and it may have a wonderful future for dieters around the world, but it is very necessary that prolonged research and thorough clinical trials be conducted before conclusions regarding its safety are reached. As always, before starting any weight loss regime, do consult your physician whether the program contains hoodia gordonii or not.

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Discount Hoodia

Aug 23

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Should one really be going around looking for discount hoodia when the genuine hoodia is very expensive to grow and harvest? So if it is a 100% hoodia product, you should be prepared for it to be expensive. If it isn’t, then it is probably not genuine hoodia gordonii or it has been adulterated with other herbs. Not only does the plant grow in only certain parts of Africa, it is also quite difficult to grow. One also has to wait full five years for the plant to flower and only after this can it be harvested to make hoodia products. The governments in Africa make it very difficult for anyone to grow hoodia on their own and if you want to you will need special permits and licenses to grow them from seeds. The seeds too take a long time to germinate and grow and in fact it takes almost a year before they can be taken from their trays and replanted in pots. Then there is the wait till the plants flower and the flowers smell really awful. After this, this cactus-like succulent can be harvested. So no, there is no question of discount hoodia unless you buy in bulk maybe, when you might get a bit if a concession.

What is termed as fake hoodia is a bit of a misnomer because very often, it is any of the other varieties of hoodia – they are not hoodia gordonii though. As it is only hoodia gordonii that is used as an appetite suppressant, these other hoodia plants should not ideally be used but unscrupulous manufacturers use them and label them hoodia to hoodwink the public. Now these are obviously cheaper and can therefore be offered at a discount considering there are around 15 of these varieties. Yes, the governments in Africa protect all the hoodia varieties for this reason precisely because if there are a lot of fake hoodia diet pills being passed off as the real thing and they don’t work, then they obviously will get a bad name resulting in sales falling.

So it would be good to keep in mind that discounts don’t really go with hoodia gordonii. If you want the real thing, it isn’t plentiful and you have to pay for it – just try and ensure it is the real hoodia though before you pay. Trying to buy hoodia at a discount price might lay you open to getting just fake hoodia and not the actual, genuine hoodia gordonii that seems to be the only hoodia that suppresses the appetite.

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Correct Hoodia Dosage

Aug 23

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How do you know how much hoodia to take every day? And how many hoodia doses a day should you take? Without sustained hoodia research, it is rather difficult to arrive at a figure. There seems to be a consensus among users that the dosage that works is somewhere between 1500 mg and 3000 mg a day. Now that’s a large margin but it obviously means that hoodia gordonii works better on some than on others. The problem is that people are doing the experimenting themselves and what we hear about happens to be the result of subjective and not objective observation.

When Phytopharm launches its hoodia, whether it will be a prescription drug or a food supplement, there will doubtless be a lot more objectivity what with the testing that they are doing and have been doing for the past few years. What has emerged from what they have been testing is that the extract they use is safe. However, they do not use hoodia gordonii as it is but an ingredient which they have named P57 which is derived from it. So can the results of Phytopharm be applicable to the many hoodia supplement manufacturers in the market today? Phytopharm will no doubt recommend a dosage after their testing – one which will deliver optimum results hopefully. Their product is supposed to be more potent than anything available today so that would probably mean that the dosage would go down from what is now being recommended.

Going back to the dosage that people rely on now, considering that hoodia capsules are available in 500 mg and sometimes 750 mg, most people take two capsules a day or two capsules thrice a day. As long as what they are taking is pure and natural hoodia, it might be safe but if there are additives, you might never know. Then, additional dosages might further complicate things and you could end up being very ill indeed.

Many people in the medical field are not very happy about hoodia because it might seem to be an unnatural way to lose weight. Besides, some of the so called hoodia tea or hoodia tablets actually contain a lot of other herbs and it could even have stimulants added to it. The additives could be a grave cause for concern if the person is already on a medical regimen and there is a reaction to the medication. Whatever manufacturers might say, supplements must be taken with a certain degree of caution and one must realize that there could be consequences. Before taking any hoodia diet pills, it is worthwhile to check with the doctor and do so under his supervision. It also helps to read the fine print on the labels carefully and check online about the results of the hoodia products you are going to buy.

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Hoodia Gordonii Plus

Aug 23

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Every hoodia diet pill brand takes great pleasure in advertising their brand as the best and superior to everyone else. So there is a great effort to call the hoodia they sell as hoodia gordonii plus or hoodia XT. What does this really signify? Does it mean that the hoodia is more concentrated? Or that it is more potent and works better than the others? Does it mean that it works faster? Unfortunately, none of these claims have been substantiated as yet with no hoodia research of any worth been done and published. Hoodia is classified as a supplement and therefore falls outside the purview of the FDA which means that it is not judged by its stringent rules and does not have to qualify and quantify its claims.

The plus term could also stand for hoodia mixed with other herbs as in hoodia plus something else which is also good for weight loss. One such herb is garcinia cambogia which is finding a great market as a slimming aid. Add an appetite suppressant to a weight loss herb and most people think that they have come up with a winner. How does this translate for the consumer? All these claims could just be tall claims. What is a bit worrying is that when a person buys what he thinks are hoodia diet pills, little realizing that there are other ingredients too, he could be in danger where his health is concerned. He could have asked for his doctor’s advice about whether it would be safe to have hoodia with whatever medications or supplements he is taking and once he got the green signal, he would go off and do just that. He would not realize if there are complications that it could have been the other herbs that were reacting with something he was taking. Natural herbs have to be taken with caution too – they do have reactions with certain drugs.

Many of the brands have certification on their web site – either from CITES or from a reputed chemical analysis laboratory. Now this need not be absolutely authentic. Most could be of course but certification can be faked and laboratory analysis could be genuine because a genuine hoodia sample was sent while the tablets that are marketed could have fake hoodia. There is many a hoodia scam that is taking place so it is better to check online at maybe a hoodia forum or two so that one can get some idea of the brands that seem to be working with other people. It is rather unfortunate that one cannot take these claims at face value but it would be far better to do a weeding out initially than suffer the consequences of ill heath and complications later.

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Growing Hoodia

Aug 23

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While there are certain varieties of hoodia being grown in botanical gardens, you cannot grow it in your garden without a special license. The ones that are grown in these gardens are different varieties of hoodia and not the hoodia gordonii variety. With so much demand for the real thing, hoodia plants are much prized and they are protected in Africa where they grow. Add to that that they mature only when they are five years old and have flowered and you will see why there cannot be a large supply. Any hoodia gordonii plant that has to leave Africa needs a special license.

What the hoodia growing countries like South Africa, Namibia and Botswana wanted was for all the hoodia varieties to be declared as protected in order to ensure that the wrong hoodia plants did not make their way outside. They needed to protect their wealth-maker plant – the hoodia gordonii and did not want the other hoodia plants to be used to make fake hoodia and spoil their flourishing market. One however does not yet know if there is any appetite suppressant quality in the other hoodia plants. It is only with the hoodia gordonii variety that research was successful and the active ingredient P57 extracted.

In parts of South Africa, it is forbidden to collect hoodia plants unless there is a special license that has been obtained. So there is a special permit needed to grow the plant as well as to harvest it. These certificates are issued by the National Department of Agriculture, and there is also a CITES certificate that is necessary. The governments of Africa are concerned about the plant being over harvested and they have also entered into an agreement to share the profits with the San bushmen who are the ones who traditionally used this plant. It was thanks to them that they could identify the hoodia plants that were the real thing.

How does hoodia grow and spread? Since it grew in the wild, it spread very quickly as the seeds were dispersed by the wind and somehow this seems to work better than collecting the seeds and farming it. One must take care that commercialization of the crop does not see this plant fading into history. Yes, the potential for hoodia will be immense if it works the way it seems to in the initial hoodia trials.  However, if it proves effective, it will mean a huge demand and rash harvesting will surely mean the beginning of the end for this plant. If it has to survive and be beneficial to us for many more years, there has to be a judicious use of what is available.

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Genuine Hoodia Gordonii

Aug 23

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There are so many varieties of hoodia and it is only the hoodia gordonii plant that has tested well for suppressing the appetite satisfactorily. So it is necessary to do a bit of spadework before you blindly go out and pick up some hoodia diet pills or hoodia capsules or hoodia powder. Just a bit of hoodia research and reading up on hoodia reviews will give you an insight on the hoodia that you should buy.

The problem with hoodia is that it is not FDA approved because it features as a supplement and not as a prescription drug. So it is up to you to be savvy and make sure that what you are buying is hopefully the real thing. For one thing, you have to ensure that it is hoodia gordonii and not any of the other varieties of hoodia because that might not be of any use to you at all. The real hoodia is certified and approved before it leaves South Africa but there are instances where there have been fake hoodia certificated that have surfaced so it is really hard to tell, Besides looking at and checking the label carefully, you need to also ask around and look at what is written in about hoodia online, Don’t get taken in by manufacturer’s claims – a hoodia forum will probably yield a lot more results when you are on the lookout for genuine hoodia gordonii.

If you were to go by the claims of the many hoodia manufacturers, all they talk about is how their hoodia is the right one and is infinitely better than everyone else’s. Unfortunately not one of them will have certified clinical trials to prove that theirs is a superior product. When Phytopharm does enter the market with its hoodia which it has been researching for the past few years, one hopes that there will be a leveling of the market with more testing and more hoodia trials to prove how effective and genuine it is. If it is a prescription drug, it will of course have to go through the FDA approval process while all the others will be listed as supplements. This might mean that the launch in the USA might be delayed or that they will have to come in as a supplement too, One has to wait and see what direction it will take, but what it will do to the market is make people aware that the others have to match up to the real and genuine hoodia gordionii concentrate that Phytopharm has access to and has patented.

When the amount of hoodia gordonii in hoodia tea or hoodia capsules is a very small quantity, there is not much chance of it working the way it should, Some brands have a mix of hoodia with other herbs, some do not contain any hoodia gordonii at all! You could as a consumer have it chemically analyzed at special laboratories but the tests are very expensive so most people do not go into the trouble and expense of doing so, What hoodia supplements need is the presence of the ingredient P57 which is the extract of the genuine hoodia gordonii plant.

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How Hoodia Works

Aug 20

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After wondering about whether hoodia does really work, the next question probably would be, how does it work? The way it worked for years in Africa with the bushmen was that when they had to travel in the desert, they ate it and it suppressed both their hunger and their thirst. For them, this was a necessity in the hot and arid desert. It would have meant the difference between life and death for some.

So how does this process of suppressing the appetites work? This should really have been a matter of extensive research but for some reason, hoodia gordonii has not undergone anything more than very superficial studies and no sustained clinical trials. In the absence of that, it is left to observers to try and figure out how it could possible work. The main consensus seems to be that hoodia works in the brain by turning off the trigger that tells the person when the stomach feels that it needs food. This would be in response to the trigger that the stomach sends the brain when it is empty or it could be a trigger that a craving within the person sends in order to be fulfilled. So the triggers could come from the stomach for sustenance or from the brain itself as a result of a psychological aberration. If this process is short circuited, then the person does not get a signal that he is hungry and does not rush out to proceed to stuff his mouth.

Is this a healthy trend? Most of us eat far more than we need. Our bodies don’t just get enough, they get an excess of food and drink. This is turn puts a tremendous pressure on all our organs to process this food and keep the amount of nutrients we need and expel the rest. Why should our bodies be overworked to just shovel out so much of the food which we don’t really need? If we ate less and ate more wisely, our bodies would work at their optimum and there would be a balance in our system. What hoodia does is to reorient our minds to stay off food and maybe then we can retrain our minds to say STOP when our stomachs have had enough.

If hoodia tests as safe for use, then it might just be a great oral prescription drug that can be taken by people who have a genuine weight problem. Today so many of them are going under the knife in order to get rid of the extra flash. How much easier it would be if they could do it with a hoodia diet.

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Pure Hoodia

Aug 20

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There are so many different brands of hoodia diet pills that are available. However, one way to make sure that you are getting the best of the lot is to look for the 100% pure hoodia certification on the label. At least this way, you’ll know that you are taking hoodia and nothing else but hoodia. So maybe hoodia will not work on you – that’s a chance that you take. However, the hoodia weight appetite suppressing quality might not work at all if the hoodia you buy is mixed with other herbs. What could be even worse is if those herbs are not just fillers but actually interfere with your body functions.

The best hoodia diet pills have the CITES certificate and they are pure, unadulterated hoodia gordonii. This certification is essential if the hoodia has to be exported out of Africa and the documents are issued only if there are chemical analysis reports stating that it is indeed pure hoodia gordonii that is present. This just makes it that much easier when it comes to choosing a hoodia brand.

Then of course, there is the debate whether it is the hoodia concentrates one should buy or the hoodia powder. Here again, there has been hardly any hoodia research done to say which is in fact more effective so most people do a trial and error way to get to what they see as the best for them. The thing is, most people tend to see hoodia gordonii as something that miraculously takes away all that extra fat when in fact all it does is to suppress the appetite. However, though some say that it does suppress cravings as well, for people who eat due to psychological disorders, just the fact that they do not have hunger pangs might not stop them from eating. Hoodia has to be looked at as one of the means to the end – the end being weight loss. It should not be viewed as the sole magical answer to losing weight.

If a person is taking other medication or supplements, it might be a good thing to talk to your doctor about taking hoodia so in case of any side effects or complications, your doctor is in the know and can make an informed decision about how to deal with it. He would also probably draw up a weight loss control program that has other aids besides just hoodia diet pills in the mix. With hardly any studies to support it, hoodia might be dangerous on a long term basis and it would be advisable to be under a doctor’s supervision all the time that you are taking it and this is especially so if you have any other ailments.

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Hoodia Dosage

Aug 20

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Does hoodia have a particular dosage or a right potency? Right now, there does not seem to be any standard. In fact, one is not really sure exactly how much of actual hoodia many hoodia capsules contain. That’s because many of them mix hoodia with other herbs and then pack and sell them. There is no regulatory body to date to make mandatory the optimum amount of hoodia of a particular strength in each tablet or capsule or dose.

Looking around, it is obvious that pure hoodia diet pills are tough to find. Many of them do not contain any hoodia at all and many are a combination of hoodia with other substances. Since most of the brands have not been subjected to a mandatory chemical analysis, one does not really know what the strength of the hoodia is, or the actual amount of hoodia that is found in each hoodia capsule. In the absence of official reports, a hoodia forum is perhaps a good place to go to get hoodia facts and information, especially when it comes to choosing between brands.

A hoodia product can be classified as acceptable or good when there is a hoodia balance between the amount of the ingredient taken and the weight that is lost during a specific period without any side effects. Most people share their experiences online and ask for advice as well. This is a great way to weed out the ones that are just scam or have too little in them to ensure effective weight loss.

For information on hoodia, you could also go to hoodia gordonii.co.za which is a South African hoodia company that is non-profit and evaluate the hoodia that goes out of the country. Unfortunately, while they have chemical analysis reports of the popular brands, they do not have reports about the strength of the product or its potency. They also have tests which compare the pure hoodia with stuff that might not be so pure and they present these findings to the customer who can then decide whether to buy or not.

What many people who take hoodia say is that they need a dose of 1500 mg a day but there are some who say that to be effective, you need to take 3000 mg a day. Now each tablet usually weights 500 mg – some are 750 mg –  so that means that the person has to take three to six pills a day for any kind of weight loss. This dosage they say is when the product is made of pure hoodia. One shudders to think just how much will be needed if the hoodia is adulterated. Further, many of the hoodia companies use hoodia that is concentrated so that might mean tablets that are much more potent.

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