Does Hoodia Work? The Hoodia Effect: Eat Less, Weigh Less

The Hoodia Pill's main ingredient, P57, is from a plant called hoodia gordonii. For over 20,000 years, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Africa, had been eating the plant to suppress hunger during long hunting trips, when food is scarce. Until now, the San Bushmen consume the plant as food and amazingly, in effect, none of them has more than 11% body fat in their body.

The primary objective of the Hoodia Diet Pill is to suppress appetite so in effect, a person has less urges to eat and binge. It makes a person less interested in food than normal.

The pill works by imitating sugar glucose, which when sensed by the hypothalamus gland, sends a message to the brain that the person is full and has had enough of food for the moment.

Continuous usage of hoodia diet pill, in effect, would make a person have less food cravings and as a result, would have a lesser daily calorie intake. When the body senses that there is not much calorie to burn, it burns stored energy instead, which leads to a dramatic decrease in weight loss without the sweat.

The core achievements upon intake of the diet pill are less appetite, feeling full faster, less feeling of hunger as often and a sense of satiety.

The first test conducted as to the effects of hoodia on appetite were done on rats. Rats are known as animals which nibble on everything edible. Upon having been injected with hoodia, however, they did not only eat less but stopped from eating at all.

Another research also involves 7 persons, who were given hoodia diet pills. Each of the patients were given a well-balanced breakfast in the morning with a supplement of multivitamin. Before lunch, they were required to take a pill of hoodia with 8 ounces of water, an hour before lunch and dinner. They were ordered not to change their activities and eating habits. The experiment resulted to the loss of an average of 10 to 28 pounds over the 1 month long period. None of them complained of any side effect.

In another clinical test conducted in England, obese men and women were divided into two groups. Group 1 was given hoodia diet pills while Group 2 was given placebo. The results of the experiment showed that those who took hoodia diet pills consumed 1,000 calories less than those who were given a placebo. In that study, the patients has eaten 30% to 40% less than average.

Taking into consideration 1,000 calories less in a person's daily consumption, a person can lose a pound or so in just 3 to 5 days. What's more interesting is that there is evidence to believe that other than loss of appetite, hoodia has also the effect of increase in metabolism.