Living Healthy Through The Tru Hoodia Diet
July 26, 2010 by Brent Fox
Filed under Health and Fitness
Hoodia gordonii, an herb, was well known to the San Bushmen who inhabits the Kalahari and Namib Deserts. Being traditionally nomadic hunters, they go for hunting that will last for about a week. With scarce food around, they habitually resort to consuming hoodia which will help them manage without food by being not hungry. They would first remove the roots, leaves, spines and flowers from the plant. Then they would peel away the skin of the stem and eat them. Scientists have found that what it does is to mimic the signals that glucose will send to the nerve cells in the brain, but many times powerful than glucose. This will suppress your urge to eat. Naturally this wisdom of the Bushmen can be a boon to those who are for ever doing all they can to shed their unwanted fat.
CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) of South Africa along with the scientists of the British company, Phytopharm, isolated the bioactive compound and called it p57. It was later subject to various tests and trails which confirmed what the San Bushmen always knew. There were no side effects that were reported in these studies. Of course, this was evident from the fact that San Bushmen have been using this for generations. There was also a big market for a variety of products, both dietary and physical exercises, for tackling the major growing problem of obesity that seemed to effect the younger generation with the new lifestyles and dietary practices. Hoodia seemed to fit the bill eminently. Interest in p57 was natural.
Very soon, hoodia hit the market as capsules and liquid. Newer formulas were conjured up by the market combining it with green tea extracts which offers you caffeine in its natural form, nicotinic acid with its niacin, chromium and cocoa extract. This has come to be called now tru hoodia complex. But the main challenge to the market was getting the right and genuine hoodia. This was collected from the wilderness of Southern Africa alone, hardly sufficient to meet the market demand. With diminishing supply, the cost rose up. It has become too costly now.
The supply of hoodia had to be from collection made in the wild. The scope for collection was limited. Attempts to engineer the production of p57 in the lab so that it can be mass produced at a lower cost failed. The rapidly diminishing supply led CITES to name hoodia as a plant that could soon find itself in the list of endangered species. It meant that its trade had to be controlled, restricted and strictly monitored.
Health is essential. That is the very reason why everyone should keep themselves healthy everyday.
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