Hoodia review
Hoodia weight
loss ( diet ) pills review - Hoodia is new widely
promoted weight loss dietary supplement. It become
to a very popular choice for dieting consumers.
But there is well known safety and lack of medical
research problem with this popular
product.
Hoodia plant
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Hoodia plant is a genus of 13
species in the flowering plant family
Apocynaceae. Because of their remarkable
similarity to the unrelated cactus family
they are described as "cactuform". Many Hoodia
species are protected plants, typical of the
Namib
Desert, ranging from
Central
Namibia to southern
Angola , especially in plains and
rocky areas, It commonly grows
wild in the Kalahari Desert
of South Africa. Native population of this
area "Bushmen" usually is using Hoodia in their
food preparation.
It's interesting that when
eaten, Hoodia has no bitter taste and does
not cause any traditional appetite side effects
such as racing heart
or central nervous system
stimulation.
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Hoodia
Research
Upon
discovering The Hoodia plant,
Phytopharm , reportedly
spend more than $20million in
research and isolation of the component which
suppresses appetite. With research ongoing Phytopharm teamed up
with Pfizer into continue
conducting research to design a weight loss
drug for potential FDA
approval.
P57 -
Hoodia
Active
Ingredient Stability
Unfortunately, after many studies and
research, Pfizer withdrawed from the program because
of the inability to create a pill with an active
form of P57 as active
ingredient. Preparation of P57 by
synthetic way is very difficult and
Hoodia plants are protected too, so
availability of P57 in weight
loss dietary supplements is rare or even
absent.
P57
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Hoodia
Active Ingredient
Content
However,
today many companies are marketing labeled
Hoodia weight loss
supplements.
Important
note is that these supplements or do
not contain P57 and, if present, they
may not
be in the active form which is required
to obtain the weight loss results. Meantime,
Phytopharm has continued research of
P57 molecule and plan to release
meal-replacement products to the market in 2008.
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