Hoodia Gordonii: A Safe Supplement?

With all the horror stories of terrible anxiety, tremers and accidental overdoses it’s normal and healthy to research any dietary aide.  Hoodia is no exception. To help put your mind at ease, South Africa has classified Hoodia as a food rather than a drug.  The safe Hoodia diet pills will be those that are organic and all natural, vegetarian and vegan friendly and promise not to contain caffiene, stimulants or effedra.

The natural active ingredient, P57, tricks the brain into thinking its full.  If it works anything like the Depo shot tricking my body into thinking its pregnant, we’ve got a winner.  In all seriousness, just take your pill half an hour before you eat with a glass of water.  Depending on your specific body, it may take up to 14 days for the full effect to show, so don’t get discouraged!

Pfizer, the company famous for bringing us Viagra, has spend about $21 million dollars for the chance to create an active ingredient, which will mirror the effects of P57 and tell the body it doesn’t need anymore food.  Here, here Pfizer!

Have a reunion coming up?  A blind date?  Just want to lose the weight now, now, NOW?  Studies have shown that people using the Hoodia diet pill cut their calorie intake by up to 1000 calories a day!  That’s about 5 lbs a week!  Not bad for poppin a pill.

Hoodia Gordonii is part of a rather large genus and it takes professionals to distinguish the difference between the many different plants.  Take away, don’t try this at home kids. Hoodia is a plant now on the endangered species list.  CITES (convention of Illicit Trade of Endangered Species) is protecting the plant, making it illegal to gather Hoodia in the wild without a permit.  Getting a permit from the South African government is not a feat easily achieved.  I think it involves a javalan throwing competition, a tiger chasing event and kniting a loin cloth???

Approved Hoodia Gordonii will be listed on the CITES website and show their permit (to prevent scam artists selling baking soda) so you can be sure your getting authentic Hoodia.
In search of the secret to how “Bushmen” staved off hunger, CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed the food the locals ate.  They were astounded to discover the animals they tested it on (all in the name of weight loss people) had only one side effect: weight loss.  CSIR concluded the plant was non-toxic and a natural appetite suppressant. By 1997, CSIR isolated the active ingredient and gotten a patent for P57.  Named because it was the 57 Product CSIR had spent money on, to Phytopharm.