Hoodia Gordonii

Much of hoodia's popularity stems from the research done by a UK company called Phytopharm.

They started studying Hoodia Gordonii after hearing stories that the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert relied on hoodia to ward off hunger pangs during long hunting trips.

Hoodia Gordonii research

It was Phytopharm who identified the active ingredient in Hoodia Gordonii that was doing the work of suppressing the appetite, and so making Hoodia the perfect natural weight loss aid.

This active ingredient, named P57 was found to act on the part of the brain responsible for controling appetite, working directly with the phychological trigger of those hunger pangs.

It was the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) in South Africa that asked this UK company for help, after themselves researching Hoodia for over 30 years.

At first the CSIR and Phytopharm tried to distill the active ingredient (names P57) from the Hoodia plant. But as that seemed to fail, companies started to produce supplements containing the dried part of the inner plant, which was shown to posses P57.

 

Hoodia Gordonii development

As more and more companies wanted to sell this new and "hot" weight loss supplement, the Hoodia market unfortunately became muddied with fake trials, low quality or even fake products and dishonest websites.

However, a few companies carried on selling pure Hoodia supplements.

As popularity flourished, new ways were looked at to deliver Hoodia. Some were doomed to failure like Hoodia patches, Hoodia creams, Hoodia diet bars (sugar with your Hoodia?), and then Hoodia gum.

 

Hoodia Diet Gum

The challenge with making Hoodia chewing gum, is that like many other botanical ingredients, heating it would destroy any P57 (the active part of the Hoodia), so making it worthless.

It took time, but with the development of new technology that allowed chewing gum to be made without heat, it was done. The world's first Hoodia chewing gum.

Here was a product that people could carry around with them, and take when ever they wanted, discreetly and at the right time for them.

We were delighted to be among the first company in the world to sell Hoodia chewing gum ...

 

and now ... We DON'T recommend Hoodia Chewing Gum

The reason?

While the product was great, while the Hoodia wasn't harmed in manufacture, there were two problems.

• There was a maximum amount of Hoodia you could put in to a piece of gum without it tasting revolting. This meant, it could only be taken alongside some supplements - what was the point.
• Hoodia Gum worked very expensive. What with the cost of manufacture, packing and shipping, it just worked too expensive for most people. So, we stopped selling it.

 

The BEST way to take Hoodia

The most effective way to take Hoodia, is by supplements.

Now, these should be the best quality, using properly sourced and processed Hoodia, and manufactured with no additives or flowing agents.

As we do not sell Hoodia supplements ourselves, we recommend you go to Pure Hoodia, for more details of the best Hoodia supplements we could find.