Hoodia

Hoodia is subtle. Everyone thinks that they are supposed to feel something. NOT necessarily! The feeling of NOT BEING HUNGRY is it. When you are not hungry DON’T EAT, that’s the hoodia working! Instead of taking a trip to the kitchen do something constructive like love, give, exercise, play, laugh and move on till the next scheduled meal time. Read Hoodia Foods and Eating Strategies to keep you moving through this mental transition.

I am from South East Asia and I came across your really helpful website. I chose to purchase HoodiaRush as they do International Delivery. As you mentioned, the company is very good and efficient, I actually faced some problems while i was purchasing the Hoodia pills (i wrongly ordered twice) and their Customer Service Support is quick to respond to my problem.

Now, I am taking their newly improved 1000mgs capsules. I only take one capsule in the morning to last me throughout the day. However, although I have been consuming one meal a day, I dont really feel the effects. The only thing i noticed is that I just feel full faster when I have my meals (usually in the afternoons). I have gastric and sometimes in the evenings the hunger pangs and gastric pains are there and I choose to ignore them. I have been consuming sufficient water (like what you recommended to all Hoodia users).

Now my question is, should i be consuming a higher dosage? If yes, how much more should I increase my dosage? And when do you recommend I take it? 2 pills in the morning? And then 2 pills later on in the evening?? I read your Hoodia 84 Day Diary and I noticed that you took up to 4000mgs of dosage!! I have spent so much money (it is expensive in my currency) to purchase 8 boxes (30 pills per box) and I am hoping that this will really work. It is now my 9th day and I don’t feel much different. Like you, I too have also been keeping a Hoodia diary. I am currently 140 pounds and i intend to reach my ideal weight of 110 pounds. Please, please help me as I would like to also see the results like you!!

Thank you.

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An addiction recovery center staff member asked “Does hoodia alter any drug screen.” I honestly do not know if hoodia affects a drug test or not. If a company performs random drug tests then I would suggest not taking hoodia to be on the safe side or better yet ASK the drug testing companies to tell you whether they see hoodia coming back incorrectly. Please anyone who finds out post a comment here so I can update this. Here are additional helpful Food and Eating Strategies

Since 2003 twenty-seven companies offered to send me their hoodia gordonii cactus diet and weight loss products free of charge trying to get recommended here on my high profile website (because we do not sell Hoodia). I didn’t want them to trick me by sending me real hoodia then offering and actually shipping some cheap diluted product on the Internet so I secretly bought the products from their sites just like you will. After testing them extensively however, only these 3 companies sell hoodia that is worth paying for, these products passed our Hoodia Buyers Checklist. These companies have GREAT prices, good customer service, excellent reputations, and have been selling 4+ years. The important thing to remember is I monitor these products monthly and test new ones updating this page to reflect my findings. Buy 100% Pure Guaranteed Hoodia by clicking a dosage shown on this page (links lead to official approved hoodia manufacturers websites).

Authentic Hoodia diet pill resources are found in the Hoodia Gordonii Guide, including hundreds of weight loss diaries and hoodia side effects.

A-Hoodia provides helpful eating strategies, special foods, and hoodia weight loss phsychology.

Desert Burn Hoodia is the most effective hoodia per milligram, super potent whereas these companies ship hoodia internationally.

HoodiaMe is a sales site covering history of hoodia, questions and answers.

Liquid Hoodia compares liquid hoodia to capsules, good if you can’t swallow pills.

The orginal importer of hoodia into the US is desert burn hoodia and you can ask diet questions on Hoodia Blog.

This Hoodia site provides before and after hoodia diet pictures which are pretty cool.

Here’s a profile of good hoodia diet information on MySpace, and another Hoodia ad.

Hoodia Shake has been released by Desert Burn, one of the few companies I can recommend product from. They sell legitimate, authentic, affordable hoodia products and have good customer service. The shake has a great vanilla taste and contains 400 mg of pure South African Hoodia Gordonii and 15 grams of Protein per serving. This is a good combination because the entire serving only has 70 calories. So you take the shake instead of a meal, reducing your caloric intake, while setting yourself up to not be hungry much at all until the next meal. I have been able to skip meals after taking the shake as well up to 6 hours later. Sometimes I take the shake and then 2 hours later take one of Desert Burns 750 Hoodia capsules. Then I am not hungry for the rest of the day.

I’m not big on putting pictures of myself on the Internet but I keep getting so many requests via email that I have decided to do so. Here are my hoodia weight loss before and after pictures. Many of you know of our full time rv travel and how we eat out every day, many times two meals or more. This made it impossible to lose weight until I started using Hoodia. Without hoodia you can see how fat I got. My wife’s weight loss pictures are better and I recommend if you want inspiration that you check them out. If you want results like this check out the hoodia sales page. It shows the 3 companies hoodia products out of the 27 that I tested, that actually sell real Hoodia that works - Hoodia Weight Loss Before and After Pictures.

Hoodia Diet Buyers Guide - follow these guidelines to make sure you get the REAL product and get the right dosage. Otherwise you will NOT get the results I have had with the cactus. The only companies I have found out of 24 that sell real hoodia and pass this checklist are in the Sales Guide.

1) make sure any product you buy is 100% natural, 100% stimulant-free, 100% ephedra-free and 100% caffeine-free. At this point enough is not known about the effects of mixing the incredibly strong Hoodia with any of these other diet products. Besides it has been our experience that you won’t need any of these others to lose lots of weight.

2) Dosage - I weigh 155 pounds (down from 182) and 1500 mg was plenty for me. It took my appetite away and didn’t make me queasy like Ephedra does. After a while I reduced the dosage down and tried the 750 mg only. They worked perfectly. If you are in my weight range, I recommend buying the smaller 750 dosage pills (NOT weaker mixes of Hoodia) or liquid hoodia. If you weigh more than I do just take two capsules. Hoodia is not harmful and it is important to TEST the dosages and pay attention for the first few days to ensure you are getting the right dosage for YOU.

Many companies will tell you not to go with a product LESS than 400mg in size. I understand why, because they don’t want you to be disappointed and quit. If you get too little of the source material responsible for the appetite suppressing quality of Hoodia your appetite won’t be suppressed. Everyone is different here. Just be advised that you CAN and will want to vary your dosage based on your particular needs and existing weight.

3) Buy from a supplier that gives you verifiable independent lab analysis with a Certificate of Analysis showing on the site. Why would you buy a from a company that cannot find a reputable scientific lab to vouch for their Hoodia product. That would be a waste of time, money and could be dangerous. My experience has been when you buy “knock off” products it always ends in disappointment. At my age disappointment is one of the things I hate the most.

4) Too good to be true - If the company is offering more than 90 capsules or large oversize capsules (more than 400mg) for less than $25 - BEWARE. Real Hoodia is not cheap to obtain or process correctly. But dollar for dollar, Hoodia gets you the greatest diet help and results for the least money.

5) Imitations and Dilution’s - do not buy 20:1 extracts as they are extremely difficult to analyze and determine if they really contain real Hoodia in the amount that will actually work (except in the case of liquid hoodia). Do not buy dilution’s, special mixtures, etc. as they may contain no Hoodia Gordonii at all. Purchase product containing 100% Hoodia Gordonii Powder and no other herbs.

6) Ingredients - ONLY the core from the aerial stems of the plant have been identified as having the active ingredient necessary to eliminate hunger. Products containing ANY kind of filler, pulp, skins, flowers, roots or other parts of the Hoodia Gordonii variety of plant are inferior and are diluted and will probably not work. Products claiming to use 100% of the Hoodia Gordonii plant are either misinformed or giving you useless bulk. There is no benefit in the outer skin which makes up a
good percentage of the weight of the plant.

7) Origin - Insist on original South African source material. Do not accept cheap substitutes from China, Mexico or other countries. ONLY use hoodia from approved South African sources operating as government-approved cultivators. Recent directives from South Africa warn that the supply of hoodia has been outstripped by the demand. The response from the South African government has been to limit export permits to control and conserve hoodia resources.

8) False Claims - Stay away from a company that tells you it can suppress your appetite with one capsule only. You will need at least a days worth of dosage to begin the effects. Companies like this typically sell fake product or product containing so little of the hoodia as to be worthless. Take it from somebody that has been there, bought the stuff, and used it successfully.

This website has 77+ pages of information on Hoodia Gordonii and how it will definitely make you lose weight. If your tired of reading and just want to order some visit these hoodia retailers. They seem to have the best deal. I ordered mine on Monday and had it sent overnight. Started taking Hoodia on Tuesday night and didn’t eat again until Friday night at a late party. I wasn’t really hungry then but I didn’t want to be rude at my wife’s get together. Anyway I have been taking the Hoodia Gordonii for 2 months now and the results are incredible. I only eat when I want to now, and at special events, because I really have no appetite to speak of. The plant is so strong it even takes away your thirst, so make sure and drink lots of water! It feels pretty cool not being controlled by stomach pains

Hoodia Diet Buyers Guide - follow these guidelines to make sure you get the REAL product and get the right dosage. Otherwise you will NOT get the results I have had with the hoodia diet.

How Does Hoodia Work for Weight Loss is a question on many people’s mind who are seriously trying to lose weight. Scientists from the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) explain that Hoodia works by mimicking the effect glucose has on the nerve cells in the brain. The higher your blood sugar the lower your appetite. Even a small quantity of Hoodia will send a very strong signal to the brain that you are full, consequently curbing your appetite.

Most people claim it produces an immediate effect - you’re in a better mood and your appetite is completely satisfied. After taking Hoodia you just don’t feel like eating. You might want to eat because you know its lunchtime, but you have no desire to chew and swallow your food. According to some people who eat the Hoodia plant directly, they say it tastes sweet and bitter. Others say the taste needs to be improved to be as tasty as cucumbers. I personally have tried the dried plant and it tastes BAD! Even the hoodia liquid needs to be swallowed with a drink of some type. But since it works who cares.

Though clinical trials on its aphrodisiac qualities have not been conducted, the reports and testimonials of people who use Hoodia are very consistent. Besides reducing hunger and thirst, Hoodia makes you alert without that “jittery” feeling. Unlike other diet remedies, like synthetic ephedra, it’s a great choice for people who are either bored or stressed and overeat to reduce that boredom and stress.

In this article, How Does Hoodia Work for Weight Loss, we discuss the effectiveness of Hoodia. There is no shortage of evidence to prove its effectiveness. The San Bushmen tribes of South Africa have been using it for thousands of generations. For them it’s an ideal choice for long hunts where prey is tracked over endless miles and days and there is no food available. CSIR, Phytopharm and Pfizer did numerous clinical trials with it and all of them had positive results. Pfizer wouldn’t have paid $21 million (Australian $) just for the license and then spend another $400 million on research and development on a product with even the slightest question of its effectiveness and safety for human use.

CSIR, Phytopharm and Pfizer struggled for 36 years (1967 - 2003) to make a patentable copy of the appetite suppressing compounds in the plant. This stubborn persistence is VERY rare in research and development done by the private sector. In all those years of work they found nothing negative about the plant even to contemplate giving up research and development. This is the most convincing proof that Hoodia is the most effective natural appetite control product they know of. And it’s also a great boon for consumers because if consumers can get hold of the real Hoodia, they’ll know it works. There are no side effects and the prices are not inflated to boost the profits of these pharmaceutical companies.

If you’re interested in the biological aspects of Hoodia, ‘How does Hoodia Work for Weight Loss,’ gives a more technical description of the process. The potent appetite suppression is caused by steroidal glycosides which may occur via the melanocortin-4 receptor (MCR-4). Steroidal glycosides are a component of saponins (one branch of fatty acids), which are bioactive compounds naturally present in many plants. Saponins are known to have antioxidant, neuroprotective and anticarcinogenic effects. In addition, saponins from the platycodi radix and salacia reticulata roots have been shown to inhibit pancreatic lipase which produce weight loss and reduce fatty liver in laboratory animals (extracts from salacia reticulata roots tended to reduce body weight and periuterine fat storage in female Zucker obese rats but did not affect male rats).

Research on animals and humans has shown that steroidal glycosides in Hoodia can reduce appetite and therefore food intake by 40 - 50%. They work on the hypothalamus - a part of your brain which controls body weight and appetite. Do NOT confuse steroidal glycosides with commercial steriods. There are NO steroids in Hoodia. Senses including taste, smell, and your stomach’s ability to expand, all tell the hypothalamus if we are hungry or full. Steroidal glycosides in Hoodia are a thousand times stronger than blood sugar. And Hoodia will not interfere with medications.

The steroidal glucosides help the Hoodia Gordonii plant survive in the wild too. Grazing animals also lose their appetite after eating the Hoodia plant, thereby protecting the plant. Steroidal glucosides are also present in Hoodia macrantha, ruschii, currari and several other species. Species differ in height, the number of ribs they have, or the color of the flowers. According to one contributor to a gardening forum, Hoodia macrantha cannot be distinguished from Hoodia Gordonii until the plants are at least 5 years old and they start to flower.

Though the reports repeatedly mention Hoodia Gordonii only, the natives say they use most of the species in the genus though they are not as strong. Each new species has to be very adaptable if it wants to spread its seeds and survive. Different species have been found growing in different geographical locations for centuries. But sometimes, some plants will look so different they are unrecognizable as Hoodia to a layman. Even an enthusiastic hobbyist will declare a discovery of a new species, because it looks different from other Hoodia plants just by the color of its flowers, or length of spines, or color of the plants body.

These differences are caused by different mineral contents of the soil, organic richness of the soil they grow in, which solar direction they face, what prevailing winds they are exposed to, rainfall averages, how far and how high from sea coast they are, etc. These adaptations result in changes in physical appearances, sometimes justifying giving the plant a new name. These differences area also the most important reason for choosing a REAL legitimate tested proven companies products when choosing to buy authentic hoodia. Many species other than the Gordonii do not have enough P57 to help you lose your appetite.