Hoodia Gordonii is a plant that resembles a Dill pickle with a spiny exterior. It is from the cactus family and it is of the succulent variety, which means it retains water, in this case in its root system. It is grown in the wilds of South Africa and Namibia, pollinated by flies mainly, the flowering portion of the plant smells like rotten meat. The Hoodia plant thrives in arid temperatures in the Kalahari Desert and will usually mature in five to seven years.
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Hoodia Gordonii
Hoodia makes your body not feel any hunger while it has no bad side effects whatsoever. It’s extracted from an African cactus.
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The Kalahari Bushmen have known and understood the effects of the hoodia gordonii plant for many centuries. They would consume the extract of the plant before heading off on hunting excursions for days at a time. The plant was used to suppress hunger as well as thirst while they were hunting. It seemed to increase their energy and was thought to have some medicinal qualities such as being a deterrent to infections.
The Bushmen of the Kalahari are known as one of the oldest tribes, certainly one of the most primitive and are recognized for their survival skills in the hot, unforgiving desert. They may also be identified for their “trance dancing” and unique rock art. The ancestral history of the traditional Kalahari tribesmen can be traced back about twenty seven thousand years based on rock drawings that have been located and studied.
Hoodia gordonii was first discovered by western eyes in 1779 by a British Colonel in and around the Orange River and was studied and painted by him. It was recognized as belonging to the Succulent Stapelia variety of cactus. The year 1937 was when an anthropologist of Dutch heritage who studied the Kalahari bushmen, now known as the San People, realized that after they were sucking on the root of a succulent plant, the tribesmen would not eat for the duration of a two or three day hunting expedition. They instead would subsist on these hoodia gordonii roots to stem their hunger and thirst.
For many centuries, the San people used the hoodia gordonii plant as a treatment for indigestion and for treating small infections when they occurred but the main use was of more interest to westerners. The Bushmen used the meaty portion of the hoodia plant as an appetite suppressant when they ventured out on survival trips to hunt and feed their families. This particular use was worthy of a more serious look.
In 1977 The CSIR or the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, recognized the essential ingredient in hoodia gordonii responsible for suppressing the appetite and it was named P57. It was nearly twenty years later before a patent was awarded. The South Africans then approved the British based Pharmaceutical company Phytopharm the right to license it. Phytopharm worked in partnership with pharmaceutical heavyweight Pfizer to study and segregate the important components from the hoodia extract and synthesize them for mass production as an appetite suppressant.
In 2002 Pfizer let the rights go to the main element of hoodia gordonii. Some believed that for a company such as Pfizer to release the rights of such a promising appetite suppressant could only mean they found the evidence inconclusive or perhaps without merit at all as an oral supplement. Pfizer on the contrary said they ceased interest when it was determined that the problem of synthesizing P57 made it inconvenient to continue. Insiders have stated that there was some concern that certain components of the P57 had adverse effects on the liver and it would have been necessary to extend the research to intolerable levels in order to seek and attain FDA approval. This is an indication from the source that until further study is completed on hoodia those seeking to lose weight using hoodia should be very careful.
Finally in 2002 the CSIR indentified the San tribesmen as rights holders of hoodia gordonii which would give them a percentage of any profits and marketing spin offs as a result of the sales of hoodia. Hoodia Gordonii is now a protected species and can only be harvested in the wild by a select number of licensed corporations and sole individuals.