Hoodia Gordonii
Hoodia Gordonii is one of the twenty types of Hoodia plants that grow in Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa. They are succulent and belong to the family of Aselepiadaceae. Although they look like a cactii they are not.
Hoodia gordonii has a unique property, that blocks the sense of hunger and makes you feel full. The San tribe of the Kalahari Desert eats this plant when they go on a long hunting trip to prevent hunger and thirst.
CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) Institute of South Africa investigated this property of the plant and isolated the active ingredient that caused it and named it P 57. This is a long molecule that imitates glucose, but about 10,000 times more so.
Its presence makes the hypothalamus, a part of the brain, to fire nerve cells to give a feeling of full stomach. CSIR naturally realized the great potential of P 57 as help in weight loss programs. They patented P 57 as a weight loss drug and sold the rights to a Cambridgeshire pharmaceutical company in U.K named Phytopharm.
Phytopharm tied up with Pfizer, a multinational pharmaceutical company of America to develop P 57 synthetically and do the marketing. Pfizer after spending tens of millions of dollars has opted out of the deal. They concluded that it is not economically viable to produce P 57 synthetically.
Meanwhile Phytopharm conducted many trials with the Hoodia plant as a weight loss medicine.
In a double blind study, they showed that Hoodia powder administered at 400mg a day for 15 days reduced the calorie intake by 1000 calories compared to the control group.
As the attempt to make synthetic P 57 is given up, Phytopharm is tied with plantation companies in South Africa to cultivate Hoodia. It takes about five to seven years for the plant to be ready. They have promised to put Hoodia Gordonii weight loss medication on the supermarket shelf by 2008. There are three or more other companies, which manufacture a range of products containing Hoodia using imports of Hoodia from naturally grown plants of the Kalahari Desert..
Hoodia and Green Tea Extract for Effective Weight Loss
From the farms of South Africa, Hoodia Gordonii is making headlines for it's amazing effects on weight loss. Media outlets from all over the world are reporting that Hoodia has clinically proven benefits on reducing appetite. One company has provided a Hoodia Extract formula that combines the benefits of Hoodia with Green Tea and other amazing co factors that are clinically proven to help with safe all natural weight loss.That company is DynaPure Nutrition (www.dynapurenutrition.com) and the product is WARP 9 Caffeine Free. DynaPure CEO and President Dan Maiullo commented that the product contains a 20:1 Hoodia Gordonii Extract because the company found that other products that just contained Hoodia whole plant were just ineffective. "We found that many products contain whole plant had very little amounts of the effective glycoside found in their products.
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Hoodia and Green Tea Extract for Effective Weight Loss
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Herbal Ingredients Of Hoodia Cure Obesity Amazingly
Herbs are true friends of human beings since the evolution of mankind on the earth. Medicinal values of herbs are known to mankind for millenniums. The most remarkable feature of the herbal treatment is that herbal treatment generally does not produce any side-effects on the body. Obesity is a comparatively new disease as the disease associated with modern life style. But, nature had created its solution millions of year back.
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Hoodia is a type of succulent plant found in Kalahari Desert of Africa. This is a plant of Apocynaceae family which has great resemblance with cactus. Life is Kalahari is very tough because of extreme climatic conditions. The tribes living there have to rely on hunting for their survival and for hunting they have go deep in the desert where scarcity of food and water welcomes them.
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Herbal Ingredients Of Hoodia Cure Obesity Amazingly
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The Kalahari Desert is a harsh desert, but biologically a very active one. South Africa, Angola, Namibia and Botswana border the desert. The native tribe, known as San or Bushman by the white South Africans, is one of the oldest living tribes in the world, may be as old as 100,000 years. Even then, they do not live a settled life with agriculture or animals rearing. They are pure hunter-gatherers.
They were hunted down by the white settlers of South Africa as a nuisance, and as late as the early part of 20th century, there were hunting parties organized to exterminate them.
When the San go on long hunting trips following the game, they eat a cactus-like plant and they do not feel hunger or thirst for a long period. They called it Xhoba. South Africa's government research organization, CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), in a routine investigation tested this plant and found that this indeed blocked the sense of hunger and gave a feeling of fullness...
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The South African Research Institute, CSIR, started a study on Hoodia Gordonii, a succulent growing wild in the Kalahari Desert. This plant has a reputation amongst the San tribe as a hunger suppressant. They chew this plant during their long hunting expeditions to prevent hunger. CSIR isolated the active molecule, named it P 57 and patented it in 1997. They sold the rights to a British company, Phytopharm, in 1998 to test and market the product.
In a double blind test, conducted by Phytopharm, 400 mg per day of Hoodia Gordonii powder, for 15 days, reduced the calorie intake by 1,000 compared to the control group.
Capsules, pills, tincture and diet gum all followed. This obviously includes genuine as well fly-by-night operators. The only thing that they could not do is to claim that their product is an aid for weight loss. That would be a patent violation. So they market it as a food supplement.
Phytopharm teamed with Pfizer of USA, a pharmaceutical...
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