The theory behind the patches is that the contents of the patch are time released through the skin (transdermal) directly into the blood stream – bypassing the digestion process.

Being able to effectively deliver medication or a nutritional supplement through the skin using a patch is no easy task… The Hoodia patches have become popular due to their affordable price and the convincing claims made by those who sell them.

It sounds like the perfect weight loss product – it’s cheap and it works better than any other hoodia product!

Not so fast. The first red flag is the price.

Authentic hoodia gordonii is scarce and, as a result, isn’t cheap.

The science behind the hoodia patch is that the hoodia gordonii bypasses the stomach and gets into the bloodstream directly through the skin, resulting in quicker and more effective appetite suppression. In reality – this only works if the raw hoodia used to make the hoodia slimming patch, is 100% pure to begin with.

Pure Hoodia Gordonii isn’t cheap as we’ve said before, it is rare and overfarmed. That’s why responsible manufacturers and distributers limit their customers purchases to 6 months.

The second red flag is FREE TRIALS!!!

If the sellers are giving it away then they either don’t realise the devastating concequences of overfarming to crops or it’s not 100% pure Hoodia Gordonii… More often than not, it’s both.

So, miracle patch or weight loss hoax? Hoodia patches work as long as the ingredients are 100% pure, but be wary of free trials and ‘too good to be true’ prices, chances are they will only lighten the weight of your wallet.

We recommend a brand new hoodia patch that has just been launched – By significantly reducing your appetite, HoodiaPatch™ will ensure you eat less, whilst also helping you to follow even the strictest of diets.

Hoodia Mint have harnessed 21st Century Technology to produce a mint flavoured tablet that can be easily sucked, chewed or swallowed! Problem solved – as we said in the title, pure genius.

This revolution allows anyone who has ever struggled to swallow a capsule the chance to benefit from the powerful appetite suppressant qualities of the hoodia gordonii cactus too!

Hoodia Mint contains two key ingredients:

Mint Flavouring

In order to overcome the naturally bitter taste of Hoodia Gordonii in it’s original form, Hoodia Mint have added a fresh minty taste to their tablets to allow even people unable to take standard capsules, the ability to benefit from Hoodia!

And

Hoodia Gordonii

A cactus plant found deep inside the African Kalahari desert.

Together these give Hoodia Mint the power of the hoodia cactus with the taste of an everyday breath mint!

So for those of you out there that are unable to swallow tablets, or even for those who want a minty alternative, Hoodia Mint can help.

With obesity levels reaching epidemic proportion, BBC news reporter Tom Mangold took on the challenge of unravelling the truth behind hoodia appetite suppressant and the results they produced worked to bring greater confidence in this unique supplement.

Breaking it down to the fundamentals, it cannot be denied that the BBC has probably provided one of the most indepth reviews, of this supplement within the media.

From their description on how it works, to their own experimentation with this supplement, their report may have been one of the earliest of its kind, but the content consumers can gather from this one report is incredible.

Within this report readers can discover:

• Hoodia Gordonii is rare and originates from the Kalahari Desert
• The process of P57’s discover by Phytopharm
• How Hoodia Gordonii works – 10,000 times more powerful than glucose, Hoodia works on the hypothalamus to make the brain believe the body is full.
• Clinical trials that had so far been conducted on the supplement (at that time)
• Hoodia can reduce your calorie intake by 1,000 calories a day
• Hoodia Gordonii is side effect free

The BBC even went a step further by putting the Hoodia Gordonii plant to the test themselves.

Now whilst the strength of their facts were, and still are, accurate, they also display what is missing with their ending statement: the growing number of fake Hoodia Gordonii supplements on the web.

And this was 6 years ago! The market you see before you today is even worse.

Their report was written at a time when Hoodia Gordonii was new and fresh to the market. When it was still in clinical trials.

With this information hanging over the heads of manufacturer’s, it was harder for fake Hoodia supplements to be sold.

But today it is a much different story. The clinical trials are all done… meaning unless consumers have all the right tools to enable them to find real Hoodia Gordonii, then the likelihood that they will invest in a fake product is much greater.

The proof of the severity of the fake hoodia products can be seen in the fact that leading laboratory testers Alkemist Pharmaceuticals discovered – of the hundreds they tested – that 80% of Hoodia products were either the wrong type of Hoodia (only the Hoodia Gordonii plant contains the active molecule P57) or were not 100% pure Hoodia Gordonii.

So what are you to do? Research.

There are other more effective ways of checking your Hoodia Gordonii supplement to see whether it is real or not:

Medical Backing: Has it been tested by Alkemist Pharmaceuticals? Check the products certificates to see who tested it. A study is not enough. It needs to be an independent company.

CITES Certificate: What is its country of origin? Only South Africa grow and export genuine Hoodia Gordonii. Hoodia Gordonii grown in another country will be less effective.

Price: Due overharvesting Hoodia Gordonii is rare, making it expensive to export. For this reason check the products price. If it is cheap, it is cheap for a reason. It is not real.

Ingredients: for genuine Hoodia Gordonii, only the core of the plant must be used. Besides its gelatin capsules, there should be no other ingredients on the ingredients list.

One product that meets all the criteria above, and more is UniqueHoodia. Their Hoodia is 100% pure South African Hoodia Gordonii, they have all the relevant certification to prove it’s authenticity, they limit the sale of their product to 6 months supply per customer and also offer a 6 month money back guarantee if you’re not completely satisfied.

With all of the fake Hoodia weight loss products on the market, make sure your Hoodia supplier meets these standards before handing over your details for an inferior product.

This alleged miracle weight loss pill has many people wondering, how a tiny cactus can help burn off your excess body fat?

Does Hoodia really work?

According to thousands of scientific trials and expert studies, the answer is a resounding YES!

Research has proven that taking a Hoodia Gordonii supplement actually helps a person feel full, even if an you have not eaten!

Not only that but Hoodia has not been shown to cause any harmful or unwanted side effects.

Throughout history, the San Bushmen tribe of the Kalahari Desert have eaten Hoodia Gordonii in order to sustain energy and avoid hunger while on long hunting journeys. Additionally, the tribe used the plant to help children feel satisfied when the food supply was low.

How Does Hoodia Work?

Although the Hoodia cactus has been used for thousands of years, the mystery of this powerful plant has only just been discovered by scientists in the past several decades. Inspired by the potential applications of this plant, researchers spent years analyzing the complex workings of Hoodia Gordonii. South African scientists discovered a specific molecule inside Hoodia that is 10,000 time more powerful and active than glucose.

This is the main secret of the Hoodia plant!

As you eat and begin to feel full, the hypothalamus section of your brain senses a glucose sugar response.

This tells your brain that since your glucose (sugar) levels are higher, you no longer need to eat and feel full.

Amazingly, Hoodia is able to send this exact message – without the calories!

The molecule in Hoodia literally “tricks” your brain into thinking that you’ve already eaten enough, allowing you to enjoy increased feelings of appetite control and

decreased feelings of hunger and food cravings.

Making you less likely to snack between meals and therefore your diet will be more successful and EASIER!

Delving into the Research

Dr. Richard Dixey was the leading researcher to study the effects of Hoodia on animals’ eating habits. Choosing rats as his test subject, Dr. Dixey found that when given a serving of Hoodia, the rats completely stopped eating.

To extend these studies, scientists conducted the first human trial of Hoodia by examining the plant’s effects on a group of morbidly obese people. In this trial, half of the test subjects were given Hoodia, while the other half were given a placebo.

To assess the effects, the subjects in both groups were not permitted to engage in any exercise or activities that would influence the trial’s results.

Ultimately, when the 15 day trial was complete, the researchers discovered that the the group taking the real Hoodia plant unknowingly dropped their caloric intake by 1,000 calories — without any exercise, dieting, or additional effort!

With all of these findings in mind, you can easily answer the question, “Does Hoodia Work?” with a resounding YES!

Hoodia Gel is one of these products. Not only do they have no proof that their Hoodia product helps in aiding weight loss, the manufacturers of one particular brand – Slender Max – have been forced to remove all claims that their product aids weight loss by the Advertising Standards Agency.

They have done what the ASA asked of them and deleted all mention of a clinical trial that they claimed had been performed, and yet testimonials still claim that the product has helped many people lose weight.

As I mentioned in the Hoodia Patch review, there is NO PROOF THAT HOODIA WORKS TRANSDERMALLY ie through the skin. So save your money for a Hoodia product that is proven to help suppress your appetite and lose weight. Don’t waste it on fad products that are riding on the back of a true weight loss discovery and producing low quality products that just don’t work.

There seems to be a patch for everything… no matter what your affliction there is a patch on the market to make it go away. The theory behind the patches is that the contents of the patch are time released through the skin (transdermal) directly into the blood stream – bypassing the digestion process.

Being able to effectively deliver medication or a nutritional supplement through the skin using a patch is no easy task… The Hoodia patches have become popular due to their affordable price and the convincing claims made by those who sell them.

It sounds like the perfect weight loss product – it’s cheap and it works better than any other hoodia product!

Not so fast.

The first red flag is the price. Authentic hoodia gordonii is scarce and, as a result, isn’t cheap.

Another red flag is how the hoodia patch is marketed. The will claim that a patch is more effective than pills or capsules because you get a slow release of hoodia gordonii into the bloodstream throughout the day. The result – your appetite will be suppressed throughout the day! That would be great – if it were actually true.

The science behind the hoodia patch is that the hoodia gordonii bypasses the stomach and gets into the bloodstream directly through the skin, resulting in quicker and more effective appetite suppression. In reality – it doesn’t work.

 

There isn’t ONE clinical study to prove that transdermal delivery of Hoodia works.

Learn more about Hoodia Clinical Trails

But what about nicotene and birth control patches? Does that mean they don’t work either? Not at all. Nicotene patches used to require a prescription and birth control patches still do – when a medication requires a prescription it means it has been extensively  studied and passed rigorous governmental regulations to prove that it works as advertised.

Not only are there no studies that prove the efficacy of the hoodia diet patch, there’s also very little evidence by dieters that they actually work.

You can probably tell that I’m not a big fan of Hoodia patches,  It would be great if they were proven to be equally as  effective as a capsule because that’d be so convenient. However until that day comes, I encourage you to stick with traditional hoodia diet pills.

We’ve been talking for ages about the power of the Hoodia Gordonii cactus and how it can help reduce your appetite to help you to eat less and lose weight. But you are still digesting fat from the food you do eat and increasing your calorie intake because of it.

What if you could reduce the amount of fat you ingest without having to decrease the amount you eat?

As part of a healthy lifestyle, Proactol claims that it can help slimmers bind up to 28% of their dietary fat intake. That means that over a quarter of the fat you eat each day will never even be digested, so will never get anywhere near your thighs!

How Does Proactol Work?

When this complex fiber interacts with dietary fats they bind to establish a fluid solution which causes these fat molecules to become too complex to be drawn into your digestive tract.

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Unable to enter into your blood, these dietary fats leave your body safely, eliminating your fat content by 28 percent a day.

The great thing about this weight loss product is that it’s 100% herbal, not only that but it’s also clinically proven to work with no side effects.

Made from the cactus Opuntia ficus-indica, Proactol is 100% safe, organic and free from flavours, food colourings and salt making it completely risk free.

Even though it is recommended that you do not ingest Proactol if you are breastfeeding a baby or are pregnant; diabetics, liver disease suffers and consumers taking cholesterol-reducing medication, can all safely ingest Proactol if they have spoken with a physician beforehand.

Proactol can be used as part of a long term plan to help you lose weight, or to maintain your weight once you have reached your weight loss goal.

“It has taken a while to come off, but it has been worth it because not only have I lost weight, I have toned up too.” – Samantha Pustelnik, mother of 3

Benefits

• 6 clinical studies
• 6 month money back guarantee
• 100% natural
• Side effect free
• 24/7 customer support
• Medically backed
• Free health gifts
• Remove up to 28 percent of your dietary fat
• Suppresses hunger
• Reduces calorie intake by 450 calories a day
• Improves LDL cholesterol
• Suitable for vegans and vegetarians

Cons

• Must be taken alongside a nutritious diet and regular exercise
• Suitable for dieters with high fat/high calorie eating habits
• May hinder vitamin absorption (do not ingest within 2 hours of having a fat soluble vitamin capsule)

Almost every manufacturer or seller claim that there are NO Hoodia side effects.

But first, what exactly is a side effect? This might seem like a silly question, but ask yourself: have you ever read of any positive side effects?

No? Look on any product website, and the mention of side effects is automatically assumed to be a bad thing.

That assumption is wrong. All ‘side effect’ really means is ‘another effect, other than the intentionally desired effect.’

For example; You’ve just logged onto a website and it tells you that Hoodia is known to heighten the moods of some individuals – including sexual arousal. Surely this isn’t a bad thing? If anything it is a bonus – However when marketing Hoodia as a weight loss supplement – Sexual arousal is classed as a side effect.

Yet put the words ‘contains side effects’ onto any website, and the majority of consumers wouldn’t even give the product a second glance. Let alone, read on to see what the side effects were.

Hoodia Gordonii, although proclaimed to have no known side effects, does in fact have a few. But they are not what you think they are.

Hoodia Side Effect : Your Liver

When Phytopharm was first given the patent to P57, they teamed up with Pfizer to put the active molecule into production. And they made an interesting discovery.

Following extensive tests, they discovered that P57 is easily broken down by the liver. Good news so far, but for anyone with an abnormal liver this could spell increased stress levels on the liver.

Considering that P57 can not be isolated from the other active ingredients in the core of the Hoodia Gordonii plant, it is advisable that anyone wanting to use a Hoodia supplement should consult with their doctor.

Hoodia Side Effect : Other Medication

The technical term for this is contraindication. It means that the supplement MAY interfere with other medications you are taking – It is the same with any product you can find on the market. There is a small risk that it may affect your other medications.

Take the contraceptive pill for example – 99% effective when taken alone, but add antibiotics to the mix and it’s effectiveness, well… lets just say that it no longer does the job properly.

It is just a question of monitoring what you are taking. If you suffer from diabetes, blood pressure or depression, then you should be careful.

Hoodia Side Effect : Diabetes

Hoodia works by affecting the neurotransmitters that go to your brain. Namely your hunger signals. It is through this that your appetite becomes suppressed and you therefore lose weight.

Sounds great, but if you are diabetic this can affect your blood sugar levels. If your hunger signals are turned off – all of the normal warning signs could come too late.

If you are diabetic, you should consult with your doctor before taking ANY weight loss supplement, not just Hoodia.

So is Hoodia safe?

Yes!

But as with any medication or supplement, if you have another underlying condition such as diabetes then you should consult your doctor before taking any other medication.

I think that it is a little irresponsible of companies to generalise and claim that there are NO Hoodia side effects. It is important that people with pre existing conditions be alerted to the possible Hoodia side effects before choosing to invest in the product.

Many dieters experience what is called the plateau – this is where you are still keeping to your diet (eating less/more healthily) and yet you stop losing weight…

Sound familiar?

Sometimes taking a Powerful Hoodia appetite suppressant can only get you so far. Then you need a little advice from the experts.

There are a few reasons why dieters reach a weight loss plateau, the main one being that the human body is incredibly adaptable, and will do its very best to maintain an equilibrium. ie: when you eat less, your body just adapts to burn less energy – THAT is why you stop losing weight.

You’ve probably heard a lot about the metabolism being a very important factor when it comes to achieving weight loss. The higher your metabolism, the more calories you will burn and therefore the more weight you lose. Simple. But what happens when your metabolism drops?

Does Starvation Mode Exist

In a word, Nope.

The body can’t just suddenly decide to lower it’s metabolic rate, each individuals metabolic rate is determined by a number of biological and genetic factors before birth, the only way your metabolism changes is down to changes in the bodies homeostasis.

What people refer to as starvation mode, is actually a gradual loss of lean mass, this then in turn lowers the metabolic rate. A lower metabolic rate means less calories are needed each day, thus our energy expenditure eventually starts to match the low calorie diet! (You stop losing weight)

What you need to do is keep your metabolic rate up and your calorie intake lower, in order to maintain steady weight loss.

How Can You Raise Your Metabolism and Still Lose Weight

The obvious way to boost your metabolism is to do more exercise. However there is another proven method to boost your metabolism whilst still losing weight – the Zig-Zag method.

This has proven highly effective for many dieters as well as professional body builders. (The experts!)

Simply put, the zig-zag method is :

… 3 days of eating less calories (below the average recommended), then a day of normal food intake.

This scientifically proven technique stops virtually any loss of lean muscle and therefore keeps the metabolism from slowing. If you keep your body guessing, then you will be able to get out of your weight loss plateau and continue losing weight.

So don’t worry if you’re Hoodia appetite suppressant has ‘stopped working’ – It hasn’t, you just need a day of eating more or exercising less and you’ll soon be back on your way to achieving your weight loss goals.

There are a variety of other certificates and laboratory companies that can also confirm the above and provide further reassurance.

Many companies have already jumped on the band wagon of claiming to have the testing of Alkemist Pharmaceuticals and a CITE Certificate to prove their products are the real deal. They make the statement; make the claim and some even more importantly provide documentation on their website.

But here is the thing. Just because they have got the certificates does not mean that they are still not lying.

By the same token, a lot of other companies choose to falsely put on a CITES certificate onto their website even though it is not theirs. They have essentially stolen it, and have blacked out the relevant information that would prove otherwise.

Go look on the web now. We are confident that when you search Hoodia websites, many of them contain certificates with either blacked out sections or even worse, out of date.

So what do you do? One you avoid Hoodia products that black out sections on their certificate and two, you use Hoodia products that can further back the above.

A few other cetifications to consider are the Organics Annex Certificate and a Certificate of Analysis.

Organics Annex Certificate – proves that there were no ‘middle men’ involved who could have interfered with the product while it was being exported to UniqueHoodia.

Certificate of Analysis – is issued to the Hoodia Gordonii supply before it enters the country, proving that it is 100% pure Hoodia Gordonii. This certificate shows that it was also tested under HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography).

One company that has all of these certifications is Unique Hoodia, find out more about Hoodia Gordonii certifications on their info page.