Hoodia Gordonii Plus Working Description

Hoodia Gordonii is an ingredient that can be found in a cactus that exists in the deserts of South Africa. What's special about this substance is that it possesses the ability to suppress your appetite aiding you to lose weight. It is a healthy and completely natural option to losing weight.

Hoodia Gordonii is a rare ingredient as it takes approximately five years for the pale purple flower of the hoodia cactus to appear. It is this flower, the Hoodia Gordonii that is harvested and made into a very effective weight loss supplement. It is even rare because among the twenty types of hoodia available in the South African desert, only Hoodia Gordonii possess the natural ability to act as an appetites suppressant.

The ingredient has been used so many times in history. The San Bushmen in the Kalahari desert use the flower to suppress their hunger and thirst especially during one of their many arduous nomadic trips across the blazing heat of the desert. The Bushmen also used the Hoodia Gordonii for cases of hemorrhoids, severe abdominal cramping, indigestions, hypertension, tuberculosis and even diabetes.

The observation of the San Bushmen was done by a Dutch anthropologist in the year 1937 and it was this anthropologist that made the first revelation that the hoodia was used as an appetite suppressant. However, it was only during the year 1963 when several scientists form the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research or CSIR began to explicitly explore the uses of the Hoodia Gordonii. Numerous laboratory experiments delivered promising results showing that laboratory animals lost weight after they were given the ingredient. Further studies have shown that there are no side-effects one can experience by taking Hoodia Gordonii.

It was these scientists that worked with Phytopharm, a British company. Together they were able to isolate a steroidal glycoside which they believed to be the active ingredient of the Hoodia Gordonii. This steroidal glycoside was named p57 and was patented and licensed to Phytopharm in 1995. The British company said they have spent approximately $20 million and more for the research conducted on Hoodia Gordonii.