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Hoodia Gordonii And What The Medicos Say

Sep 27

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“Is the hoodia gordonii that I am planning to buy the Real Thing?” With fake abounding, one has to ask this question. In fact, Alkemist Pharmaceuticals, a highly reputed company tested hundreds of products that were sent to them willingly and discovered that over 80% of them were fraud!

Hoodia gordonii only grows in Southern Africa and has been listed as an endangered species. Anyone wishing to import it has to have a CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) certificate to prove that the hoodia gordonii is genuine and has been imported legally.

Now most hoodia companies rely solely on a CITES certificate and testing by Alkemist Pharmaceuticals to prove that the Hoodia Gordonii that they are selling is authentic.

But the problem here is, that many of these websites proudly displaying these two certificates are doing so under false pretexts. On some websites, the certificates are blurred and barely readable. On others, some of the text appears to have been blacked out possibly because it belongs to some other company or because it is out of date.

So now, what does one do? The answer lies in the fact that there are more ways than just the two mentioned above, of certifying that the hoodia gordonii in the product is genuine.

The Organics Annex Certificate – this proves that the hoodia gordonii in the product has been imported from the farmers in South Africa and sent directly to the USA – so, no agents in the middle and no lying around in storage sheds for who knows how long. Furthermore, it proves that the Hoodia Gordonii was grown organically. A Certificate of Analysis (COA) – this is issued before the Hoodia Gordonii enters the USA. Proving that the hoodia gordonii has been analyzed under HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography), and is not only genuine, but contains no contaminants as well.

Now, let us look at UniqueHoodia. UniqueHoodia has undertaken the responsibility to obtain the Organics Annex Certificate as well as the Certificate of Analysis.

Naturally, they have the CITES certificate and have had their Hoodia Gordonii tested by Alkemist Pharmaceuticals. In addition to all this, UniqueHoodia has had their pure hoodia gordonii tested by CNL (Certified Natural Laboratories) as well, another highly reputed laboratory and their product has passed these tests with flying colors. This goes to show you that they are selling pure, fresh and safe 100% real Hoodia Gordonii in their products.

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Genuine Hoodia vs. Fake Hoodia

Sep 27

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If you type the word “hoodia” in your search engine, in less than 0.13 seconds, you will find over 6 million entries! Thousands of these are websites selling hoodia products in some form or another, giving you very impressive information and making it easy to buy hoodia right away.

What you need to know is this. Alkemist Pharmaceuticals tested hundreds of these products (sent to them willingly) and discovered that 80% of them were selling fake Hoodia – and we are only talking about the samples sent to them…what about the hundreds of untested samples?

So how do you discern the fake hoodia from the pure hoodia?

1. There are many varieties of hoodia growing all over Africa, but only pure hoodia gordonii, which grows only in Southern Africa, will suppress your appetite. The inner flesh or core of hoodia gordonii contains an active ingredient (named P57, by the scientists who discovered it) that mimics glucose and fools your brain into thinking you are full, when you have not eaten anything. So any product that says it contains hoodia (without specifying further) is most likely selling one of the other hoodias – and those hoodias have no effect on appetite at all.

2. The active ingredient of hoodia gordonii, P57, is found only in the inner flesh of the plant. Some manufacturers are unfortunately using the entire plant in their product. That is, they are including the outer spiny skin, leaves, stems and roots. These other parts of hoodia gordonii contain no P57, and have no effect on the appetite. The product then may prove to be hoodia gordonii when analyzed, but it will only be 60% effective. When buying hoodia gordonii, make sure the pure hoodia capsule contains only the core of the plant – it should have a high P57 count.

3. Another thing that manufacturers are doing, is adding other ingredients to hoodia gordonii. These other ingredients do nothing to induce appetite suppression and on the contrary, like point 2 above, they lessen the amount of hoodia gordonii in the product, making it less effective. Also, no research has been done on hoodia gordonii being ingested with other substances, so possibly this may not be very safe to do. The only other substance that you should see on the ingredient list of your hoodia gordonii is gelatin – the gelatin that is used to make the capsule.

One company that has not only followed the above rules, but has the certificates to prove it is UniqueHoodia. UniqueHoodia uses pure hoodia gordonii imported from South Africa with a CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) certificate to prove it. UniqueHoodia also has an Organics Annex Certificate, which proves their product is organic and sent to them directly from farmers in South Africa.
Their product has been tested, analyzed and passed by Alkemist Pharmaceuticals, again with certificates to prove it. If you want to try out pure and safe 100% real hoodia gordonii, UniqueHoodia is the product for you.

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Fake Hoodia Products

Aug 20

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How did hoodia gordonii become so popular? After all, the African bushmen had been using it for years and no one had ever noticed earlier. It was a Dutchman anthropologist who first realized how wonderful this plant was way back in the 1930s. He was studying the San Bushmen when he saw that they used this to suppress their hunger. In the sixties, the national scientific laboratory in South Africa began studying the hoodia plant and they soon saw that the animals they were testing started losing weight,

The scientists began more studies with a British pharmaceutical company called Phytopharm and together, they discovered the active ingredient in this plant and isolated it. They called this P57 and they applied for and got a patent for it. Then Pfizer joined hands with them to manufacture this herb for commercial purposes but the rights were sold back to Phytopharm after a while and today for hoodia Unilever is the company that works alongside Phytopharm.

Phytopharm set up a trial with eighteen people and it was this trial where it was found that doing nothing else to lose weight, hoodia meant that the persons who had taken it lost around a thousand calories a day. Some in the group were given placebos and the hoodia group was compared to the behavior of the placebo group. However, this was just a study they did and it was never published or subjected to scrutiny by any recognized body. All we have going is the number of calories that a person ate less a day because his hunger was suppressed.

When the whole hoodia plant news first hit the stands, a correspondent from 60 Minutes went to Africa to cover it. The team went out with a local bushman to find and test hoodia. She found that the plant tasted like cucumber but what amazed her was that she never felt hungry or thirsty for a long time. There were no side effects that she experienced. Once she came back and talked about it, the whole hype grew to huge proportions.

There was a study later where the active ingredient from hoodia P57 was injected into rats’ brains to see if there was any change in their eating patterns. It was found that the rats that were given this ate much less than the ones that weren’t. Since this was injected into the brain and the hoodia available is to be ingested orally, they felt that no comparisons could be made and no conclusions could be drawn.

Today hoodia capsules as well as hoodia powder and hoodia liquid are available all over. You can buy hoodia online too and you might get it in a tea form as well. There are diet pills too which use hoodia as one of the ingredients in their mix.

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