Hoodia Gordonii Cactus Plant Information

What is Hoodia Gordonii?

Hoodia is a genus in the Asclepiadaceae family. There are approximately 20 species in the genus. The unusual flowers are flat and saucer-like in shape and red, purple to brown or mottled dark yellow in colour. Flowers form prolifically near the stem tips in summer. The short stems are many angled with white spikes appearing at short intervals on each angle. Stems are single or branch forming, they occur in variable shades of green. Plants are found in a large part of Southern Africa.

The Hoodia Cactus has been used by the indigenous bush people of South Africa for generations as a natural appetite suppresant and thirst quencher during long hunting trips. The powerful extract from this african cactus have been tested and shown in clinical trials on obese subjects to reduce caloric intake by up to 1000 calories per day.

Hoodia Cactus extract contains a molecule that is estimated to be up to 10,000 times as potent as glucose in sending a signal to the brain that the body is in a state of satiety, or in common terms not hungry. In humans, two groups were given equal diets and placed in a setting where there was nothing to do but sit, eat, read or watch the TV. One group was given hoodia and the other a placebo. The hoodia group consumed on average 1000 calories a day less than the placebo group. You can now get this exciting nutritional supplement containing pure hoodia gordonii. Optimum Hoodia offers products like hoodia extract, diet pills, weight loss pills, capsules, powder, mist, tablets, etc.

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Buyer Beware

Not only is Hoodia gordonii extremely difficult to identify because it looks so similar to other Hoodia succulents of the same family. In addition to the Hoodia gordonii succulent you have, Hoodia alstonii, Hoodia currorii, Hoodia currorii, Hoodia lugardii, Hoodia dregei, Hoodia flava, Hoodia juttae, Hoodia officinalis, Hoodia parviflora, Hoodia pedicellata, Hoodia pilifera, Hoodia pilifera, Hoodia ruschii and Hoodia triebneri, just to name a few.