Recently there was found a plant which is supposed to be very helpful in loosing weight. This plant grows in the deserts of South Africa and it is called by the local people many ways, including hoodia. They have used hoodia for centuries to trick the hunger especially when they were leaving in hunting trips or in times of famine. A few years ago CSIR made a research on the food the San people are eating and so they discovered this amazing plant that minimizes the desire for food.

The plant is also called hoodia cactus but it is a succulent, not a cactus. The reason why it is called like that is that it has spines just like a cactus. There were made many experiments on animals and on humans and the results showed that hoodia really has this effect.

They have found that it is not simple hoodia the one that works like that. Hoodia has many species but only one named gordonii has this great result. This variety of hoodia contains a molecule, P57. It imitates the glucose with bigger effect so that it succeeds to trick your brain. The brain will think that you have eaten enough so you will not have an increased appetite anymore.

But is hoodia safe? The plant reduces you appetite indeed. But let’s think on the exact effects that it has. By decreasing your appetite you will start to eat less. Is this a good thing for your organism? Hoodia will make you eat approximately one thousand calories less a day. But specialists say that the metabolism is slow when the body is not fed properly. And when that happens, all the calories will be stored by your body as fat.

Until now there were not found any side effects but the researches continue. Hoodia only affects the body centrally, not your organs or the circulatory systems. But problems can be discovered at any time. Many weight-loss products that were thought to be healthy at the beginning proved the contrary. If you want to spend your money on diet supplements that contain hoodia maybe it would be better to wait some time. Otherwise you you might not get what you are paying for. When you purchase a product that contains hoodia you also have to see if it includes gordonii variety. If it does not, it will not have the effect that you are expecting for.

There is another important aspect. If you use hoodia you should not stop eating food. There were some cases between the San Bushmen when in periods of famine they were feeding their children only with hoodia. After a long time they died because they were not eating anything else but hoodia. So you have to be cautious not to make hoodia your only aliment. Even if you really want to loose weight, your health is more important than that.

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