The Science Behind Hoodia Gordonii
Patricia Zelkovsky
Hoodia Gordonii is a cactus like plant from the Kalahari Desert.
It’s been used for thousand of years by the Bushment of South
Africa to suppress their hunger during their long hunting trips
in this desolate environment. For them it was a fact of live – to
survive a long journey you chew Hoodia Gordonii.
In the desert, they don’t do clinical studies on plants and
substances – they test them in the real world. There are
thousands of years of evidence that Hoodia Gordonii works to help
you avoid hunger.
Of course, for the Western people, clinical studies are a
must, and millions of dollars have been spent studying it – but
what proof is there that it can work?
In November 2004 Leslie Stahl reported on CBS’s 60 minutes and
said, “So how did it work? Stahl says she had no after effects –
no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing
heart. Leslie also wasn’t hungry all day, even when she would
normally have had a pang around mealtime. Leslie also reported no
desire to eat or drink for the entire day.”
Now for a news anchor to report something as a success – a good
omen for Hoodia.
Even the BBC tested Hoodia. Tom Mangold visited the Kalahari
Desert in 2003 and ate a half a banana sized piece of Hoodia
Gordonii. He said “The plant is said to have a feel-good almost
aphrodisiac quality, and I have to say, we felt good. But more
significantly, we did not even think about food. Our brains
really were telling us we were full. It was a magnificent
deception.
Dinner time came and went. We reached our hotel at about midnight
and went to bed without food. And the next day, neither of us
wanted nor ate breakfast. “
Tom Mangold reported that it was almost twenty four hours before
his full appetite returned. It’s very rare, as you know, for the
media to be so positive, particularly about a food supplement.
It’s usual for them to search for the faults and the scandal.
Phytopharm, the company that own the patent on Hoodia Gordonii
completed a full double blind placebo controlled study on
overweight volunteers.
The results of this study proved that those who took the P57
Hoodia extract had a significant reduction in both body fat and
calorie intake with no side affects! The Bushment have eaten
Hoodia Gordonii for thousands of years with no ill effects
It is thought that Hoodia fools the brain into thinking it is
full when you are not through imitating the effect glucose has on
the nerve cells in the brain.
Dr. Richard Dixey from Phytopharm explains that the P57 Hoodia
extract works by making the nerve cells within the hypothalamus
that sense glucose sugar fire as if you were full.
When you take Hoodia, you can’t starve yourself to death, so
don’t worry, your brain is smart enough to realize that you do
need food to function. The good thing about Hoodia Gordonii is
that it suppresses your appetite so you don’t feel the urge to
snack all day long.
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