Hoodia Gordonii and Media Coverage
| number of bottles | price per bottle | |
| 6 | - | $26.66 |
| 3 | - | $34.98 |
| 1 | - | $39.95 |
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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Much of the hoopla surrounding hoodia gordonii can be traced back to November 21, 2004, when Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes fame did a report on hoodia and even sampled the succulent plant in the process. She was quoted as saying… “I’d have to say it did work” and CBS news issued the following statement…
”Stahl says she had no after effects – no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. She also wasn’t hungry all day, even when she would normally have a pang around mealtime. And, she also had no desire to eat or drink the entire day.”
Pretty heady stuff for an American public obsessed with their weight and an in ground belief in their celebrity newscasters. “well if it’s good enough for Stahl and it worked for her it must be okay for me” and then it started. Before the news report from Stahl, there were only three products containing hoodia gordonii for sale in the United States and African farmers were selling hoodia at just over $26.00 per couple pounds. As of 2007 it is estimated there were over 300 hoodia products being sold globally with the tag line “Authentic Hoodia Gordonii”. The “street” value for hoodia was now averaging over $500.00 per couple pounds. By late in 2008 this average price had dropped to about $270.00 for just over two pounds for what was named wild crafted hoodia and around $170.00 for “cultivated Hoodia gordonii “substance.
With such heavy media coverage and bandwagon jumping by the health supplement industry over a single product that was already in relative short supply in the wild, supply and demand soon kicked in. A plant with a five to seven year maturation cycle meant it would soon disappear if government regulations were not initiated at the source. Hence the South African government instituted a protected status for hoodia and several other countries followed suit like Namibia.
A torrent of products came down the pike claiming to contain hoodia gordonii but in actual fact contained not a trace of the main component P57 in them. So what did they contain? The study by Alkemists Pharmaceuticals discovered that more than half of the claims alleged by hoodia products that they contained hoodia actually included none at all. Early in 2006, the magazine Consumer Reports examined hoodia gordonii and summed things up as follows…”This weight loss drug lacks the clinical evidence for the Consumer Reports experts to recommend this product”.
Not only has hoodia gordonii been highlighted on 60 minutes but there were many follow up news reports on the same subject by news shows such as 20 – 20 on the ABC network, and not to be outdone Katie Couric of the Today show also did an in depth expose’ on the attributes of hoodia as an appetite suppressant. These programs were followed up by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, who had her own much publicized battle with obesity, and was featured in her mostly traditionalist magazine “O”. There have been thousands of articles over the past few years having to do with hoodia gordonii and product reviews have become commonplace online and in print.