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CNN Warns against Hoodia products

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

CNN has published a report of several diet supplements to avoid, and have included
hoodia on the list. Why? Because you dont know what you are getting, and it will likely
be YEARS before a genuine and safe hoodia gordonii product is available.
According to CNN:
Hoodia Theres been lots of hype about hoodia gordonni, a cactuslike South African plant with
appetite-suppressing chemicals (in one study, people who took it ate 1,000 fewer calories a day).
But the hoodia in that test isnt available right now, says University of California, Los Angeles,
expert and Health Advisory Board member David Heber, M.D., Ph.D. He says the hoodia products
in stores or online probably contain other hoodia types that dont work or none at all.
The British company Phytopharm, which has a global patent on hoodia for weight loss, says real
products are years away. Bottom line: The available hoodia products may be safe, but theyre
useless.
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CBS 60 Minutes Report on Hoodia

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

60 Minutes recently aired a report on Hoodia. If you browse hoodia sales websites, they
are all proudly quoting As seen on 60 Minutes! They are hoping you didnt really SEE
the program, but assume their product was recommended.
To clear matters, here is the transcript from the program. As you will see, these products were not
recommended at all, because they are either fake or contain too little of the active ingredient to do
any good.
STAHL: Each year, we spend over $40 billion on products designed to help us slim down. But none
of them seem to be working very well.
But now along comes hoodia. Never heard of it? Soon it`ll be tripping o your tongue, because
hoodia is a natural substance that they say takes your appetite away.
It`s very dierent from diet stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen that are now banned because of
dangerous side eects. Hoodia doesn`t stimulate at all. Scientists say it fools the brain by making
you think you`re full, even if you`ve eaten just a morsel.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) STAHL (voice over): Hoodia is a bitter-tasting, cactus-like plant.
We were told that if we wanted to try it, we`d have to go to Africa, because the only place in the
world where hoodia grows wild is here in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa.
Nigel Crawhall, a linguist and our interpreter, hired an experienced tracker named Toppies

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Kruiper, a local aboriginal Bushman, to help us nd it. The Bushmen, who were featured in the
movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, speak a click language. Oba (ph) is their word for hoodia.
Toppies led us out into the desert.
(on camera): So, Toppies, do you eat hoodia all of the time?
NIGEL CRAWHALL, LINGUIST: He says, I really like to eat them when the new rains have come.
Then they`re really quite delicious. STAHL (voice over): Toppies says there is a lot less hoodia
than there used to be, because of the recent droughts. It was like being on safari and coming upon
a tiger sort of.
CRAWHALL: OK, here we go.
STAHL (on camera): Here?
CRAWHALL: Yes, right here.
STAHL: Right here.
CRAWHALL: This is a small one.
STAHL: This is it?
CRAWHALL: This is a baby.
STAHL (voice over): Toppies cut o a stalk that looked like a small spiky pickle, and removed the
sharp spines.
(on camera): Now, let me ask, is that little amount is going to be enough to suppress my appetite
for a full day?
CRAWHALL: OK, he says, This is enough to make you lose your appetite. You won`t have any
desire for hunger, is what he said.
STAHL: All day?
(voice over): In the interest of science, I ate it.
(on camera): Ready, aim, re. They do pay me for this. A little cucumbery
CRAWHALL: Yes.
STAHL: in texture, but not bad. I`m feeling extremely brave.
OK? Toppies, I`ve done it.
(voice over): The next day, I was ready to report.
(on camera): So, did the hoodia work? Well, rst of all, I had no after-eect no funny taste in my
mouth, no queasy stomach, no racing heart. Nothing. And secondly, I wasn`t ever hungry all day.
Even when I would normally have a pang, say, around lunchtime or dinnertime, I didn`t.

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I had no particular desire to eat or drink for the entire day. So, I guess I`d have to say it did work.
(voice over): Although the West is just discovering hoodia, the Bushmen of the Kalahari have been
eating it for a very long time. After all, they were living o the land in southern Africa for over
100,000 years.
Some of the Bushmen, like Anna Swartz, still live in old traditional huts, and cook so-called Bush
food gathered from the desert the old- fashioned way.
Hoodia may or may not have anything to do with it. But you never see an overweight Bushman.
The rst scientic investigation of the plant was conducted here at South Africa`s national
laboratory. Because Bushmen were known to eat hoodia, it was included in a study of indigenous
foods.
DR. RICHARD DIXEY, PHYTOPHARM: And what they found was that when they fed it to animals,
the animals ate it and lost weight.
STAHL: Dr. Richard Dixey heads an English pharmaceutical company called Phytopharm that`s
trying to develop weight-loss products based on hoodia.
(on camera): Was its potential application as an appetite suppressant immediately obvious?
DIXEY: No, it took them a long time. In fact, the original research was done in the mid 1960s.
STAHL (voice over): It took the South African national laboratory 30 years to isolate and identify
the specic appetite-suppressing ingredient in hoodia. When they found it, they applied for a
patent and licensed it to Phytopharm.
(on camera): Phytopharm has spent about $20 million so far on research, including clinical trials
with obese volunteers that have yielded promising results. Subjects given hoodia ended up eating
about 1,000 calories less a day than those in the control group. To put that in perspective, the
average American man consumes about 2,600 calories a day; a woman about 1,900.
DIXEY: If you take this compound every day, your wish to eat goes down. And we`ve seen that
very, very dramatically.
STAHL: If it`s a plant and it grows, why a patent?
DIXEY: The patent is on the application of the plant as a weight-loss material and, of course, the
active compounds within the plant. It`s not on the plant itself.
STAHL: And so, no one else can use hoodia for weight loss?
DIXEY: As a weight-management product without infringing the patent, that`s correct.
STAHL (voice over): But what does that say about all these weight- loss products? Each one claims
to have hoodia in it.
Trimspa says its X32 pills contain 75 milligrams of hoodia. The company is pushing its product
with an ad campaign featuring Anna Nicole Smith, even though the FDA has notied Trimspa that
it hasn`t demonstrated that the product is safe.

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Some companies have even used the results of Phytopharm`s clinical tests to market their
products.
DIXEY: This is just straightforward theft. That`s what it is.
People are stealing data, which they haven`t done, they`ve got no proper understanding of, and
sticking on the bottle.
STAHL (on camera): You`re saying other people have gone out and extracted the hoodia plant and
put it out for me to buy somewhere?
DIXEY: When we have assayed these materials, they contain between 0.1 and 0.01 percent of the
active ingredient claimed. But they use the term hoodia on the bottle, of course.
STAHL: But you`re saying that small amount
DIXEY: Does nothing at all.
STAHL: has no eect.
DIXEY: None whatsoever.
STAHL (voice over): But Dixey isn`t the only one who has felt ripped o. The Bushmen rst heard
the news about the patent when Phytopharm put out a press release.
Roger Chennells, a lawyer in South Africa who represents the Bushmen, who are also called the
San, was appalled.
ROGER CHENNELLS, ATTORNEY: The San did not even know about it.
STAHL: And this was something that was in their tradition.
CHENNELLS: They had given the information that led directly towards the patent.
STAHL (voice over): The taking of traditional knowledge without compensation is called bio-piracy.
(on camera): You have said and I`m going to quote you here That the San felt as if someone
had stolen the family silver. CHENNELLS: I did say that.
STAHL: So what did you do?
CHENNELLS: Well, I wouldn`t want to go into some of the details as to what kind of letters were
written or what kind of threats were made.
STAHL: But letters were written and threats were made.
CHENNELLS: Yes, we engaged with them. They had done something wrong, and we wanted them
to acknowledge it.
STAHL (voice over): Chennells was determined to help the Bushmen who, he says, have been
exploited for centuries. First, they were pushed aside by black tribes. Then, when white colonists
arrived, nearly annihilated.

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CHENNELLS: Around about the turn of the century, there were still hunting parties in Namibia
and in South Africa that allowed farmers to go and kill Bushmen.
STAHL (on camera): Hunted Bushmen?
CHENNELLS: Yes, yes.
STAHL: Hunted as if they were animals?
CHENNELLS: It`s well documented.
STAHL (voice over): The Bushmen are still stigmatized in South Africa and plagued with high
unemployment, little education and lots of alcoholism. And now, it seemed they were about to be
cut out of a potential windfall from hoodia. And so Chennells threatened to sue the national lab on
their behalf.
CHENNELLS: We knew that if it was successful, many, many millions of dollars would be coming
towards the San.
STAHL (on camera): Many millions of dollars.
CHENNELLS: Many, many millions. They have talked about the market being hundreds and
hundreds of millions in America.
STAHL: You seem pretty sure, I must say.
CHENNELL: Yes, I am quite sure.
STAHL (voice over): In the end, a settlement was reached. The Bushmen will get a percentage of
the prots if there are prots. And that`s a big if.
The future of hoodia is not yet a sure thing. The project hit a major snag last year. Pharmaceutical
giant Pzer, which had teamed up with Phytopharm, and funded much of the research, dropped
out when making a pill out of the active ingredient seemed beyond reach.
(on camera): Can`t you make it synthetically?
DIXEY: It can be made. We`ve made milligrams of it.
STAHL: You have?
DIXEY: But it`s very expensive. It`s not possible to make it synthetically in what`s called a
scaleable process. So we couldn`t make a metric ton of it or something, which is the sort of
quantity you`d need to actually start doing something about obesity in thousands of people.
STAHL: Unable to make a synthetic pill, Phytopharm decided it would market hoodia in its natural
form, in diet shakes and bars. That meant they needed the hoodia plant itself.
But given the obesity problem in the United States alone, it became obvious that what was needed
was a lot of hoodia much, much more than was growing in the wild in the Kalahari. And so they
came here.
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plantations like this to meet the expected demand.

Agronomist Simon MacWilliam has a tall order: grow a billion portions a year of hoodia, within
just a couple of years. But he admitted that starting up the plantation has been quite a challenge.
(on camera): Why is it so hard? I can see you`ve got some empty spaces here. What`s the
problem?
SIMON MACWILLIAM, AGRONOMIST: The problem is we`re dealing with a novel crop. It`s a
plant we`ve taken out of the wild, and we`re starting to grow it. So we have no experience. So it`s
dierent diseases and pests which we have to deal with.
STAHL: How condent are you that you will be able to grow enough?
MACWILLIAM: We`re very condent of that. We`ve got an expansion program, which is going to
be hundreds of acres. And we`ll be able we`re ready to meet the demand.
STAHL (voice over): Which could be huge given the obesity epidemic.
Phytopharm says it`s about to announce marketing plans that will have meal- replacement hoodia
products on supermarket shelves by 2008.
(on camera): Are these the same thing that I tasted when I was with the Bushmen in the Kalahari?
MACWILLIAM: No. I think you have had a slightly dierent species.
STAHL (voice over): This species has the advantage of growing a lot faster, but
MACWILLIAM: It`s actually more bitter than the plant that you tasted.
STAHL: More bitter, huh? But I was planning on another day without thinking of food. How bad
could it be?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you ready?
STAHL (on camera): One, two, three, OK. Yes, it`s not good.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Imported hoodia results in HUGE nes

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

As weve reported many times, genuine hoodia gordonii is a protected species and cannot
be legally exported at this time. As a result, New Zealanders are seeing hefty nes by the
government for illegally crossing the border with hoodia. We wish the US government
would also take this action, as it would reduce the large amount of fake hoodia products
being sold today.
Monday, 18 December 2006
Press Release: Department of Conservation 18th December 2006

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Oprah-endorsed diet aid creates headache for DoC

A plant touted by Oprah as a dieting aid is creating a headache for the Department of
Conservation (DoC).
Hoodia is a cactus-like plant native to the Namib Desert in Africa, and is widely believed to be an
appetite suppressant. It is also a protected species, and as it gains popularity, DoC is seeing an
increasing amount of products containing Hoodia entering New Zealand without the required
certication.
Hoodia is protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES),
an international agreement between governments to protect endangered plants and animals. DoC
has managed CITES here since New Zealand became a member in 1989.
Hoodia can only be imported into New Zealand with CITES certication.
DoC CITES Ocer, Jane Denton, says many people are not aware that Hoodia is a protected
species.
There is often a belief that natural or plant based products are harmless, however, more and
more we are seeing the harm that trade can have on endangered species, she said.
Ms Denton said much of the Hoodia intercepted at the border has been bought over the internet.
Products containing Hoodia that are not CITES certied will be conscated at New Zealands
borders. Companies found importing Hoodia products are liable for nes up to $100,000, and
individuals can be ned $50,000 or imprisoned for up to three years.
More information on CITES can be found at www.doc.govt.nz , or www.cites.org .
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If it aint hoodia
Posted on April 28, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

Whats in it? Weve recently been told by sources that many so-called genuine hoodia
gordonii capsules actually contain sawdust, ground leaves, and other debris.
Weve received several email from readers that have become ill after taking hoodia pills they
purchased locally or on the internet. Complaints included stomach pains, rashes, nervousness,
and nausea. We urge you to reconsider buying hoodia products until a legitmate and licensed
source is available. At this point, we are waiting for Unilever to unveil their hoodia products, as
they will probably be the only genuine and safe hoodia gordonii products on the market.
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Unilever/Phytopharm announce success

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

On April 10 2006, Unilever announced they were successfully able to extract the
molecule from hoodia gordonii in an eective form to be used as a weight loss product.
Human trials are underway, and the rst stage has completed. The product is expected
to be for sale in 2008.

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The yet-to-be-named treatment is expected to be launched in 2008, after rst-stage tests showed it
is commercially viable to produce the extract. Phytopharm and Unilever are embarking on clinical
trials in the second stage of the project to make sure it works on humans and is safe to use. At the
same time, Unilever is running a separate agronomy programme to determine whether the cactus,
which takes 50 years to reach maturity, can be grown commercially.
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Consumer Reports Casts Doubts on Hoodia for Weight Loss

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

The February 2006 issue of Consumer Reports On Health contains an article on hoodia
gordonii, calling it long on the exotic and short on the evidence. While we cant reprint
the full article without permission, we will include a quote that may interest you.
We could nd only two studies of hoodia. In one, an unpublished 15-day clinical trial from a
manufacturer, Phytopharm, nine volunteers who took pills containing P57, the supposed active
ingredient, consumed fewer calories and lost more fat than those who took a placebo.
CR concluded:
Consumers have no way of knowing the type of hoodia or the amount of the plant or its active
ingredient in these products, since dietary supplements are virtually unregulated. Given the very
scanty evidence that hoodia works, and the even scantier evidence that its safe, particularly
long-term, we do not recommend taking these supplements.
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PhytoPharm Strikes Deal with Unilever to Market Hoodia Gordonii

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

Phytopharm announced December 15 2004 that it has granted an exclusive global

licence to its Hoodia gordonii extract to Unilever plc, the global consumer products
company and owner of a number of the worlds leading brands.
As part of the agreement, Unilever will commit to initial payments totalling approximately 6.5
million ($12.5 million) out of a potential total of 21 million ($40 million) in payments to
Phytopharm. In addition Phytopharm will receive an undisclosed royalty on sales of all products
containing the extract.
The extract of Hoodia gordonii, a South African plant, was licensed exclusively by Phytopharm
from the South African Council for Scientic and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1997. Phytopharm
has been actively developing the extract for incorporation into weight loss products.
Unilever and Phytopharm will collaborate on a ve stage research and development programme of
safety and ecacy studies with a view to bringing new products to market. Unilever will also
manage a separate agronomy programme and will support the international patent programme for
the products.
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults overweight at
least 300 million of them clinically obese and is a major contributor to the global burden of
chronic disease and disability (Source: World Health Organisation).

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Commenting on todays announcement, Dr. Richard Dixey, Chief Executive Ocer of Phytopharm,
said:
We are delighted to enter into this agreement with the global leader in weight management
products. Our partnership with Unilever supports the development of this product with milestones
and a fully funded programme and we look forward to generating royalty income from our
partners globally recognised brands.

Dixey said the deal with Unilever meant the consumer product company would use its nancial
and legal weight to start prosecuting companies proting from alleged hoodia products.
In an attempt to attract the growing anti-obesity market, several companies claim their products
contain extracts of the rare plant.
It is mainly fraud but there are occasional companies that have hoodia containing products
and we are obviously going to start moving against them, Dixey said.
A very important element of this deal is to have the right partner who will help us enforce the
patent, he added.
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The San People and Hoodia Gordonii

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

Over the centuries, the San, who were the original inhabitants of Southern Africa, were
pushed o their lands and forced to live as hunter-gatherers in the arid and hostile
Kalahari and Namib deserts. They were hunted and killed as vermin by European settlers
but the survivors displayed remarkable powers of adaptability to their harsh
environment.
Their knowledge of the local ora and fauna, weather patterns and use of roots, barks and animal
organs is unsurpassed. They became the subject of countless documentaries, picture books,
postcards and research. But, while the researchers and photographers earned fortunes from the
San, they themselves got nothing. They were reduced to isolated, landless communities on the
fringes of the modern states. San people and hoodia gordonii
In 1996, the existence of the San tribes was recognised when they successfully claimed the return
of some of their ancestral lands in the Kalahari. They formed the Working Group of Indigenous
Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA) to protect their interests. In 1997, WIMSA announced it
would no longer allow free access to the media or researchers and began to draw up payment
contracts.
Over the past four years, the organisation has taken legal action against the unauthorised use of
their name and photographs of them in books, postcards, tourist promotions and so on. Last year,
reports Peter Hawthorne of Time, for the rst time, they negotiated royalty agreements with the
producers of an award-winning documentary. Revenue is ploughed into education and community
development.
A South African lawyer, Roger Chennells, fought two major claims on behalf of the San. The rst

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involved rock art sites which date back 27,000 years. He wants the San to be involved in the
management of the sites and to benet from them,
The second involved their traditional knowledge. To keep hunger and thirst at bay, the San chew
on pieces of the Hoodia cactus which acts like an appetite suppressant. South Africas CSIR
isolated the active ingredients in the cactus and in 1997 patented it, as P57. The CSIR negotiated
the commercial rights to P57 with Britains Phytopharm, which in turn sold them to the US
pharmaceutical giant Pzer for a reported $32m. Pzer hoped to have P57 out as a super
slimming pill within three years. However, Pzer withdrew their participation after determining
that this was not possible.
There is still a chance that a viable hoodia gordonii product can be sold in the future, even though
it is likely several years away. The San people will benet from this, as agreements have been
made to share prots with them. In March, 2003, Southern Africas indigenous San people signed
a landmark deal, securing nancial rights to a diet drug developed from hoodia gordonii.
Under the deal, the San people would receive 8 percent of payments the Council for Scientic and
Industrial Research receives while the drug undergoes trials.
San People
Once the drug is commercially available, the San would be paid 6 percent of all royalties awarded
to the South African lab, which holds the patent for the medication derived from the Sans
traditional knowledge of the hoodia plant.
The San are among the poorest people in the region and the deal could bring in millions of dollars.
The money would be divided among its people living in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and
Angola and would be used communally, mostly for buying land and investing in education and
development projects.
Act responsibly when buying Hoodia on the internet.
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Hoodia Gordonii
Posted on April 8, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

Hoodia Gordonii is a succulent plant that grows in the African Kalahari desert. It thrives
in extremely hot weather, and it takes many years to mature. The plants, which are
native to a narrow region of southern Africas republic of Namibia, on the edge of the
Kalahari Desert, are pollinated by ies and ies regard the sickening smell given o by
the blossoms much as a hungry teen-ager would the aroma of Big Macs while sitting in
the drive-through lane. Hoodia gordonii is very rare and is protected by national
conservation laws in South Africa and Namibia. It can only be collected or grown with a
permit.
Bushmen have used hoodia for several centuries, to help ward o hunger when on long trips in the
desert. They would cut a piece of the plant, which is about the size of a cucumber, and eat it. It
takes a piece of fresh hoodia, about 2 or 3 inches long, to get the appetite suppressing benet.
Scientists have found that one molecule in the plant is responsible for the appetite reducing eect.
This molecule has been named P57.
Phytopharm owns the patent to P57, and no other company or individual can sell hoodia as a

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weight loss aid.

Pharmaceutical giant Pzer entered a deal with Phytopharm and tried to isolate P57 into a form
that could be marketed to the public. After several years of research, they determined that this
was not possible, and they pulled out of the agreement.
Hoodia is currently being sold online by various companies and individuals. They are selling dried,
powdered hoodia. However, the appetite suppressing ability of hoodia gordonii is only found in
large fresh pieces of the plant. The powder that you purchase contains such a small amount of P57
that it cannot produce the desired eect. These products are not regulated or inspected, and the
exact contents are not known.
Phytopharm is still working on developing a viable source of hoodia gordonii that can be marketed
to the public. They expect this to take several years. When this is available, it will only be sold by
companies that are certied by Phytopharm as being authentic and having the correct amount of
P57 to benet the user.
The current supply of genuine hoodia gordonii is very limited, and is considered rare. The South
African government has chosen to protect hoodia gordonii as an endangered plant. In October,
2004, CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
provided added protection. Hoodia gordonii cannot be exported as a weight loss product. Limited
amounts of the plant can be exported, but only as herbarium collections. The extent of illegal
trade is unknown.
According to CITES:
3.4 The potential impact of illegal trade is considered to be very high because of the threat of
over-exploitation after the patenting of compound P57 by the CSIR, in South Africa. Hoodia
products are widely advertised on websites and all the material used to manufacture these
products is thought to be derived from wild-harvested plants. There are at least ten companies
oering Hoodia products for sale on their websites. Very high actual and potential impacts of
trade can be expected, since some pharmaceutical companies require wild material for extraction
of the active compound.
3.5 The plantings in South Africa and Namibia have not yet reached a stage where harvesting is
possible, so all material currently in trade is probably from wild sources.
2.7 All Hoodias have been subject to collecting by succulent collectors, and several taxa have been
impacted by habitat disturbance (e.g. road construction, mining and overgrazing).
Harvesting for medicinal properties has occurred in the past as part of traditional practices, but
harvesting for commercial purposes is becoming a large potential threat. Since the isolation of the
active ingredient in H. gordonii and the extensive press coverage that projected huge nancial
benets to be derived from exploiting this species, there has been an increasing interest in the
harvest of Hoodia spp. Although H. gordonii is abundant and widespread, collectors of plant
material cannot always tell the dierent species apart, and collecting from the wild is likely to
impact a number of Hoodia species. Harvesting requires cutting o the above ground parts of the
plant and it is relatively easy to decimate small populations.
Therefore, the hoodia gordonii products you purchase on the internet may not be actual hoodia
gordonii, may contain little to no P57, and are probably exported illegally and are encouraging the
extinction of this plant.

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New Studies Prove Hoodia Gordonii Dangerous

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Hoodia Advisor

Weve anxiously awaited the release of a Unilever produced hoodia gordonii product that
has been proven safe and eective. Unilever has spent more than $20 Million dollars
over the last four years developing hoodia gordonii into a product that they expected to
market in foods and beverages. Unilever is well known for their Slim-Fast weight loss
product.
Unilever has dropped their hoodia program after their safety and eciency trials proved
disastrous results. The use of hoodia gordonii was shown to have dangerous side eects including
increased blood pressure, and had no signicant eect on the calorie consumption of the
participants.
Its neither safe nor eective.
Phytopharm has also stated that they have tested many products that claim to contain the active
ingredient in hoodia gordonii and found none that could fulll their claims.
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