My Hoodia Diet Shop

oodia Gordonii has been used by the San Bushmen, who live in the Kalahari Desert region for centuries to suppress their appetite. They ate the fleshy core of the succulent to ward of hunger and thirst as food and water were scare in the desert region. Ever since Hoodia was aired on the ’60 Minutes’ show and in the ‘BBC Report’, it became well know to everyone. Here’s some quick facts on this weight-loss miracle from the desert.

• Hoodia Gordonii looks like a cactus, but actually it is a succulent, which grows in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa.
• Hoodia Gordonii enables weight loss to occur naturally, and it is not a drug. It’s abilities to suppress the appetite comes from an active ingredient present in it which is named P57

• Pharmaceutical companies have isolated the P57 molecule in Hoodia Gordonii, for the purpose of taking Hoodia Gordonii, weight loss products.

• Of all the species in the Hoodia family, it is only Hoodia Gordonii that has weigh loss properties.

• Hoodia Gordonii works by suppress your appetite. The P57 molecule present in Hoodia sends a signal to your brain indicting that your appetite is full, after you eat it. This is the same effect that happens when glucose levels in the body rises after eating food, only thing is that P57 is about 10,000 times faster than glucose.  

• Hoodia Gordonii has no known side effects. It been used by the San bushmen for other medicinal purposes, in addition to its use as an appetite suppressant. 

With so much interest in Hoodia Gordonii, there is a huge demand for Hoodia Gordonii weight-loss products, so much so that the South African government has made it a protected plant species.