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Hoodia Review – Does Hoodia Work for Weight Loss?
What you need to know about hoodia gordoniiHoodia gordonii (pronounced HOO-dee-ah) is also called hoodia, xhooba, !khoba, Ghaap, hoodia cactus, and South African desert cactus.
Hoodia is a cactus that's causing a stir for its ability to suppress appetite and promote weight loss. 60 Minutes, ABC, and the BBC have all done stories on hoodia. Hoodia is sold in capsule, liquid, or tea form in health food stores and on the Internet. Hoodia gordonii can be found in the semi-deserts of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. Hoodia grows in clumps of green upright stems and is actually a succulent, not a cactus. It takes about 5 years before hoodia's pale purple flowers appear and the cactus can be harvested. Although there are 20 types of hoodia, only the hoodia gordonii variety is believed to contain the natural appetite suppressant.
Although hoodia was "discovered" relatively recently, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert have been eating it for a very long time. The Bushmen, who live off the land, would cut off part of the hoodia stem and eat it to ward off hunger and thirst during nomadic hunting trips. They also used hoodia for severe abdominal cramps, haemorrhoids, tuberculosis, indigestion, hypertension and diabetes.
In 1937, a Dutch anthropologist studying the San Bushmen noted that they used hoodia to suppress appetite. But it wasn't until 1963 when scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa's national laboratory, began studying hoodia. Initial results were promising — lab animals lost weight after taking hoodia.
The South African scientists, working with a British company named Phytopharm, isolated the active ingredient in hoodia, a steroidal glycoside, which they named p57. After getting a patent in 1995, they licensed p57 to Phytopharm. Phytopharm has spent more than $20 million on hoodia research.
Eventually pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (makers of Viagra) caught wind of hoodia and became interested in developing a hoodia drug. In 1998, Phytopharm sub-licensed the rights to develop p57 to Pfizer for $21 million. Pfizer recently returned the rights to hoodia to Phytopharm, who is now working with Unilever.
What you need to know about hoodiaHoodia appears to suppress appetiteMuch of the buzz about hoodia started after 60 minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl and crew traveled to Africa to try hoodia. They hired a local Bushman to go with them into the desert and track down some hoodia. Stahl ate it, describing it as "cucumbery in texture, but not bad." She lost the desire to eat or drink the entire day. She also didn't experience any immediate side effects, such as indigestion or heart palpitations. Stahl concluded, "I'd have to say it did work."
In animal studies, hoodia is believed to reduce caloric intake by 30 to 50 percent. There is one human study showing a reduced intake of about 1000 calories per day. However, I haven't been able to find either study to actually read for myself and am going on secondhand reports.
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Buy Wisely and not Blindly!
Since the start of the human race, erectile dysfunction has existed. But it’s only a few years back that erectile dysfunction drugs have been invented in order to provide respite to all the men who have been fighting ED. The irony of the matter is that erectile dysfunction is a very widespread disease, but because of the social stigmas it has never been highlighted. Though medication have been discovered for diseases that are less common and more complicated than ED, still ED treatment has always lagged behind. But today those days are over.
To a great extent, people have been able to do away with all the misconceptions and the stigmas that have been attached with erectile dysfunction. Thanks to the overboard publicity campaigns that the ED medicines conducted before the launch of their respective products. The shedding of all the inhibitions regarding sex also helped men in coming out with their problems related to ED. Undoubtedly; the media also has a role to play in this new found openness regarding the aspects related to sex.
So, finally people today have medications for the treatment of ED. In spite of all the side effects and the cost factor, the three ED drugs that have been introduced till date namely, Pfizer Viagra, Lily Icos Cialis, and Bayer Levitra have done quite well in treating ED.
However, there always has to be a thought of caution on the part of the customers before jumping into any and every product that comes their way. After all the medical wizards that manufacture the ED drugs don’t just invent drugs just for the purpose of serving humanity. Sure, this motive is always there, but then there is another very important factor that drives these companies to invent new and better drugs. And that’s the simple motive of making money. Sometimes this second motive gets the better of the first nobler motive. So, it would do good if some kind of scrutiny is done before grabbing a product.
If we take the case of the ED drug Bayer Levitra, this drug was introduced in the market so that it could compensate for some of the loss that the company’s cholesterol treatment Baycol incurred. The latter almost sunk the fortunes of Bayer. So it is but natural that the company would go out of the way to do good all the losses that it had gone through. As a result a lot of emphasis was made on the aspects of the drug, that it could also be administrated to the old men suffering from cardio vascular diseases. A boon that the other ED drugs were devoid of.
No doubt ED drug Levitra has these plus points. But they are over dwelt upon, so that they can boost up the sinking fortunes of Bayer. If going by these advertisements you order levitra and have it without prescription you may get into an unwanted soup. Even when you buy levitra after medical consultation, you are anyway hiking the sales of the drug. Well, the bottom line is that don’t just go for any product, be it drugs or even otherwise blindly, else you will be the one regretting!
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