Hoodia Gordonii Weight Loss

Everywhere you'll hear people craving for a fit body, ladies most especially. Left and right, people try so hard to lose weight. Tried exercising, eating less, undergo a treatment, taking diet pills and some other supplement. There are just a lot of these all over to help us stay slim and fit.

Hoodia Gordonii has taken everyone by storm that has the ability to suppress appetite and promote weight loss. It is also called hoodia, xhooba, Ghaap, hoodia cactus and South African desert cactus.

It grows in the deserts of South Africa, Angola, Botswana and Namibia. It has pale purple flowers that takes for about 5 years to appear and that's the time you can harvest it's cactus Hoodia Gordonii is believed to be the only variety to have contain the natural appetite suppressant from the other 20 types of Hoodia.

Hoodia was first studied by the scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa's national laboratory during 1963. they worked with a British company named Phytopharm. They come up with the name p57, the isolated active ingredient from Hoodia. This was then synthesized into a drug that copied the Hoodia effects on appetite and thirst suppression.

60 minutes correspondent, Leslie Stahl and crew traveled to Africa to research about Hoodia. After trying it she described it as "cucumbery" in texture, but not bad". She even lost her appetite for food the whole day and didn't experience any side effects like dizziness or vomiting. She concluded that it really does work.

There were also some studies that have been conducted using animals. It has been believed that caloric intake was reduced by 30 to 50 percent. A human study was also conducted and it showed that there is a reduced intake of about 1000 calories per day.

Hoodia Gordonii is also used for severe abdominal cramps, hemorrhoids, indigestion, hypertension, diabetes and tuberculosis.

Just also remember that taking Hoodia doesn't mean you stop having a complete regular meal 3 times a day. Your body needs that so don't. Hoodia is just there to cut down your eating too much.

Taking Hoodia would fool your brain that you're already full and not hungry anymore even though you haven't eaten much or anything. It is said that it has a feel-good almost aphrodisiac quality, something that would make you feel good. Maybe because you don't feel heavy since you're not eating anything for a long periods of time. Something that could be called a magnificent deception!