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Hoodia Gordonii Reviews

We spend more than $40 billion per year on products designed to help us slim down. None of them really is working very well. Since the year 2004 Hoodia, a natural plant from South Africa (see this Hoodia Review), entered the American market with stunning success. Recently doctors and scientists learned why. Let’s start with the Hoodia Facts: A clinical trial in Leicester (England) demonstrated that the daily food intake from 18 volunteers was reduced by 1000 calories. You may ask yourself, how does Hoodia work? A Hoodia Comparison study showed that out of 20 types of Hoodia, only Hoodia Gordonii contains a natural appetite suppressant, P57, which tricks your brain into thinking that you’re full.

If you haven’t heard of Hoodia yet, you soon will because it is the new miracle supplement for safe and effective weight loss. 60 Minutes, ABC, and the BBC have all reported extensively on the key Hoodia Facts. Visit your favorite channel and search for “Hoodia best review”. Hoodia is the botanical name for a cactus like plant that grows in the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa. Growing in clumps of green upright stems it takes about five years before its pale purple flowers are ready for harvesting. Hoodia is sold in capsule or as a liquid in health food stores and on the Internet. But make sure to inform yourself sufficiently regarding Hoodia Comparison in Hoodia forums and reviews for consumers, since there are appearing more and more fake and diluted products on the marked.

Although Hoodia was "discovered" fairly recently, the Bushmen of the San tribe have been eating it for thousands of years to fight hunger and thirst during their long hunting trips. They would cut off part of the Hoodia stem and eat it. In addition they used Hoodia for severe abdominal cramps, haemorrhoids, tuberculosis, indigestion, hypertension and diabetes. Now the pharmaceutical industry seeks to develop Hoodia diet pills to sell it on the $40 billion market.

It was not before 1997 when the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa isolated the bioactive compound in Hoodia, a steroidal glycoside, and obtained a patent. The patent was licensed to a British pharmaceutical company called Phytopharm who named the molecule P57. Phytopharm spent more than $20 million on Hoodia research before pharmaceutical giant Pfizer caught wind of Hoodia and became interested in developing a Hoodia drug. However after a few years of unsuccessful attempts to make P57 synthetically, Pfizer pulled out of the deal. If a large amount of this molecule could not be created inexpensively in the lab, Pfizer was not interested. The story goes on.

While Phytopharm was discouraged by the Pfizer decision, they knew that Hoodia Gordonii was too powerful an appetite suppressant to give up trying to bring it to the market. In December 2004, Phytopharm announced that Unilever had entered a deal to market Hoodia Gordonii in its diet food product line. – No matter what the pharmaceutical industry might design in the future the whole natural product cannot be substituted by one or a few molecules. Therefore the complete plant is always the best choice as stated in “DEX-L10 Hoodia reviews”.

If you are planning to take Hoodia Gordonii you may be surprised that there is a difference between Hoodia as a liquid, or Hoodia as a tablet (pill). Liquid Hoodia has a superior absorption rate as opposed to the pill/tablet while it can provide you with the same or better results than the pill or tablet even at a lower dosage. The summary of a Hoodia Comparison lists two main Facts on Hoodia Consumption:

a) The liquid form of Hoodia Gordonii is much more easier to take in, whereas tablets and capsules may be difficult to swallow for both minors and older people.

b) The liquid Hoodia absorbs immediately into your blood system, which helps you feel its effect almost instantaneously, while capsules and tablets can take a few hours to experience the effects. For supplementary information read more in Hoodia Reviews.