Do Hoodia Diet Pills Work? How?


by Janette Lee - Date: 2007-02-03 - Word Count: 500 Share This!

The very first scientific investigation of the plant Hoodia was conducted at South Africa's national laboratory. It was included as a study of indigenous foods, since the San Bushmen eats Hoodia for 100,000 years.

"What they found was when they fed it to animals, the animals ate it and lost weight," says Dr. Richard Dixey, who heads an English pharmaceutical company called Phytopharm that is trying to develop weight-loss products based on hoodia.

San Bushmen from South African uses Hoodia to curb their hunger and thirst during long journey of hunting trips. Hoodia extracts has been used in producing Hoodia diet pills and have been shown to produce the same effects of reducing desire of food and drink. For such a wonderful thing, are there any side effects?

The 60 MINUTES report on CBS news that featured Hoodia, says: "Hoodia is very different from other diet stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen that are now banned because of dangerous side effects. Hoodia does not stimulate the body. In fact, scientists say it fools the brain by making you think you're full, even if you've just eaten a morsel."

The effect of Hoodia is very different from stimulants. Stimulants tends to make you feel awake and alert, but have no effect on your appetite. It tends to accelerate your heart rate and sometimes increase your blood pressure, for some people, the excess stimulation could leads to other health problems like insomnia, nervousness and more. Therefore, it is important to double check the ingredient in your diet pill to see if there is any stimulant; Hoodia Diet Pills should be void of stimulant completely.

How does Hoodia diet work? Research from Cambridgeshire bio-pharmaceutical company, Phytopharm has shown that in the overall picture, p57 (the active molecule in hoodia diet pills) influences the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls satiation or the sense of fullness. P-57 misleads the brain and the body to believe that you have just eaten. Further more, it works by falsely leads the body to believe that your glucose level is high therefore, you have enough energy just being introduced to the blood stream, no need for food immediately.

Biochemically, the active component in Hoodia Diet Pills (p57) has shown to elevate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in the blood stream. Scientist then extrapolates from this to form the following hypothesis that the high level of ATP is the key to the appetite suppression effect of Hoodia diet pills. A simpler explanation is the following: ATP is our body's energy source. When we eat food, our blood sugar level increase, then the cells in our body take the glucose and turn it into ATP in the mitochondria, which are then used as a source of energy. Therefore, hoodia diet pill (p57) works on increasing the energy level without increase intake of calories. With high energy in our body already, our central nerve system is happy to think that our body is taking care of, no need to send signal to our digestive system for more food.


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Janette Lee is an editor of the Hoodia Diet Now Blog. Visit us at http://hoodiadietnow.blogspot.com/

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