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Hoodia Gordonii has received a lot of attention recently and has quickly become of the most popular weight loss products in the world. Back in 2004 Hoodia Gordonii was only used by a handful of very knowledgeable weight loss enthusiast, and of course the Sans Bushmen who were the first to discover Hoodia Gordonii and had been using it for centuries. Then major TV networks began airing stories on Hoodia Gordonii, Oprah spoke about Hoodia Gordonii on her show and the plant was mentioned in her magazine "O". Suddenly the demand for Hoodia Gordonii skyrocketed. The one problem with this is that the farmers of Hoodia Gordonii were not prepared for the sudden increase in popularity and there was not nearly enough Hoodia gordonii in the world to fill the new demand. Hoodia Gordonii is part of a family of many hoodia plants but is the only one which contains the active ingredient P-57 which suppresses appetite. Many companies started using forms of the plant other than Hoodia Gordonii and marketing their products as hoodia, which it technically is. When buying the natural weight loss supplement you should not only be careful that you are getting a pure extract, but that it is a pure extract of Hoodia Gordonii. One of the best ways to be sure it is Hoodia Gordonii, is that the company should be able to provide you with a CITES certificate upon request. This is a certificate which is attached to all Hoodia Gordonii which leaves South Africa, the only place where Hoodia Gordonii is being grown and harvested.

While quick weight loss is extremely appealing, it is not necessarily the best way to go. Much of the time quick weight loss is not permanent weight loss for a couple reasons. The first is, to achieve quick weight loss you may have to go through a brief but grueling process. While this will help the pounds fly off in the short run it is generally not something that can be maintained, and afterwards you will go back to your old habits and the weight will come back. If you do manage to achieve quick weight loss you should have a less demanding plan for weight management. Secondly, quick weight loss is commonly a loss of muscle rather than fat. Muscle takes up calories just to maintain itself so after you have finished your quick weight loss program your body will be using less calories per day and you will gain the weight back; except you will gain lost muscle back as fat. For more controlled rather than quick weight loss you should make gradual changes like eating smaller portions. To help with this appetite suppressants like Hoodia are available.

Real Hoodia is hard to find, despite all of the advertisements you can see online. The fact of the matter is, and most unbiased sources agree, that there is not enough real Hoodia Gordonii on the entire planet to fill all of the orders being placed for it. So people selling it have found ways to fill in the gaps between supply and demand for real Hoodia in order to turn maximum profits. One of these methods involves selling another plant from the Hoodia family other than real Hoodia Gordonii. This enables them to advertise their product as Hoodia but fill it with a plant which is useless for appetite suppression, and do it at a fraction of the cost. It is mostly Chinese companies who do this because one of the similar plants grows in China, but there is no real Hoodia Gordonii being produced in Asia. The only company in the world with the legal right to grow real Hoodia is Phytopharm, and the only place they are doing it is in South Africa. If the supplement or spray does not come from a company which can show you a CITES certificate from the South African government, then they are almost definitely not selling real Hoodia.

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