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Pure Hoodia and not hoodia mixed with other herbs or compounds are always best.
Phytopharm's Dr Richard Dixey explained how P.57
actually works: (hoodia gordonii the cactus succulent
has a molecule responsible for decreasing hunger, this molecule has been identified as P 57.)
"There is a part of your brain, the hypothalamus.
Within that mid-brain there are nerve cells that
sense glucose sugar. "When you eat, blood sugar
goes up because of the food, these cells start
firing and now you are full. "What the Hoodia
seems to contain is a molecule that is about 10,000
times as active as glucose. "It goes to the mid-brain
and actually makes those nerve cells fire as if
you were full. But you have not eaten. Nor do
you want to."
According to the British Heart Foundation 17% of men and 21% of women are obese, while 46% of men and 32% of women are overweight. Hoodia is a natural appetite suppresant.
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The San People of South Africa used Hoodia for most or all of the 27,000-plus years they lived in the Kalahari. It was not until 1937 when a Dutch anthropologist observed them munching on the hoodia cactus to stifle fierce hunger pangs during long hunting trips that Hoodia first came to the attention of the outside world. Then, for inexplicable reasons hoodia was then and remains today the most powerful natural appetite-suppressant known to man sat on the back shelves for decades to follow.
Hoodia did not return to the spotlight until some thirty years later when South African scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) began studying hoodia and discovered that Lab animals fed the flesh of the hoodia cactus succulent lost significant weight and suffered no ill effects. |
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A United Nations conference approved a proposal by African countries
to control trade in hoodia sought hungrily by drug companies for its
appetite-suppressing properties. The hoodia gordonii cactus in question
has been used for thousands of years by southern Africa's San Bushmen
to dampen their appetites during long treks through the harsh Kalahari
desert and holds the key to potentially lucrative anti-obesity drugs.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species listed
the hoodia plant in its Appendix II -- which will regulate global
trade in the species -- at the behest of South Africa, Namibia and
Botswana. South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
has patented the chemical entity extracted from hoodia and licensed
British drugs-from-plants firm Phytopharm Plc to develop the plant's
commercial potential. Phytopharm said it welcomed moves to protect
hoodia from illegal cultivation.
The six foot plant, called Hoodia, contains an active ingredient which research has shown could reduce appetite by up to 2,000 calories a day. The remedy was originally patented by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),
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