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How Hoodia works
Hoodia Gordonii is a popular herbal extract taken from a plant in South Africa. The bushmen of the Kalahari desert take it to this day to eliminate hunger cravings while on long hunting trips. Now, after centuries of use in its natural form, Hoodia diet pills have emerged and have become popular worldwide for their fast weight loss benefits.
Hoodia is generally safe to take and causes no side effects unlike prescription diet pills. Keep reading to find how Hoodia Gordonii works to help you lose some extra weight.
The hoodia diet pill products found online are usually made of the pure Hoodia extract. The pills are just small capsules filled with the Hoodia ingredient in powder form and taking one will leave you without feeling hungry for up to 6 full hours. This, along with a lot of recent publicity, is exactly what has helped so many people lose weight fast with hoodia diet pills.
The good thing about hoodia is it is 100% natural, and hoodia diet pills suppress your appetite without giving you any side effects like sweating, increased hearth rate, upset stomach, or other uncomfortable effects that can result from manmade pharmaceuticals.
About Hoodia
Hoodia gordonii can be found in the semi-deserts of South Africa,
Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. Hoodia grows in clumps of green
upright stems and is actually a succulent, not a cactus.
It takes about 5 years before hoodia's pale purple flowers appear and the cactus can be harvested. Although there are 20 types of hoodia, only the hoodia gordonii variety is believed to contain the natural appetite suppressant.
Although hoodia was "discovered" relatively recently, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert have been eating it for a very long time. The Bushmen, who live off the land, would cut off part of the hoodia stem and eat it to ward off hunger and thirst during nomadic hunting trips. They also used hoodia for severe abdominal cramps, hemorrhoids, tuberculosis, indigestion, hypertension and diabetes.
In 1937, a Dutch anthropologist studying the San Bushmen noted that they used hoodia to suppress appetite. But it wasn't until 1963 when scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa's national laboratory, began studying hoodia. Initial results were promising - lab animals lost weight after taking hoodia.
The South African scientists, working with a British company named Phytopharm, isolated the active ingredient in hoodia, a steroidal glycoside, which they named p57. After getting a patent in 1995, they licensed p57 to Phytopharm. Phytopharm has spent more than $20 million on hoodia research.
