What is Hoodia?

Hoodia comes from a plant scientifically known as Hoodia Gordonii. It is found in the arid deserts of South Africa and has been used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes as a miracle food that staves off hunger. Hoodia is also one of the lesser known and more contemporary appetite suppressants on the market.

Hoodia helps you lose weight in a safe and natural manner. It is not a drug of any kind and in most places it is classified as a food or food supplement.

It is often referred to as the natural diet miracle because it cuts the appetite nearly in half in most individuals.

The reason it is so effective is because it tricks the body into not feeling hungry. It makes it think that it has ingested its require dosage of glucose for the day which makes you feel too satiated and full to eat some more.

Hoodia is a safe weight loss supplement because it is not a stimulant. It is simply in a different category then all of the other diet aids on the market (such as Ephedra and Phenfen), which speed up the metabolism and the heart.  Instead an ingredient called p57 in hoodia tells the hypothalamus in the brain that the stomach is full so that we don’t eat. Furthermore Hoodia is also a mild natural mood elevator so that you don’t feel fatigued as the result of the lack of calories. Instead many people feel euphoric and like they have extra energy to burn when they take Hoodia.

Hoodia diets succeed where other weight loss diets fail largely because they are not based on self-denial and deprivation.  There is no binge eating at the end of the day to make up for calories missed earlier.  This is mostly because you will not feel like eating at all while you are on it.  However if you are serious about losing weight taking hoodia in tandem with a highly nutritional low calorie, low fat diet is also recommended. This is because some people don’t feel like eating more than 400 or 500 calories a day while they are on hoodia so if you are only going to eat a little bit then it is important to eat as much of it as possible.

One of the most common misconceptions about Hoodia is that it is a cactus. This is because it looks a bit like one. The plant looks a bit like a thorny Aloe Vera plant with a thick round stalk and needles on the leaves. In reality it is a succulent desert plant that stores water in its fleshy leaves. It is also a smaller plant that does not grow bigger than eight inches tall.

Hoodia cacti are natural to the partial deserts of Botswana, Angola, South Africa and Namibia. There are twenty-eight different species of the Hoodia leafless succulent family however not all types induce weight loss. Only the small Hoodia Gordonii possesses the appetite suppressant abilities.