While CITES certification is required to know that your Hoodia Gordonii was legally harvested and imported, it is also necessary to ensure that the CITES documentation was properly obtained and that the Hoodia that was certified remains pure when it is placed into a supplement. 

More than 100 separate complaints against companies were filed last year in relation to Hoodia Gordonii because of false claims and improperly tested product, often the result of carefully reworded labeling or sometimes just outright lies. This is why Hoodia Prime™ triple tests it’s Hoodia before it goes out to our customers.

There are supposed to be versions of Hoodia Gordonii that are grown in China or even in the United States, but it is believed by many to be a different species of Hoodia that does not provide the appetite suppression of the Hoodia Gordonii grown in South Africa. 

In fact, there are over 20 species of Hoodia that grow in South Africa alone, and only Hoodia “Gordonii” is the species of the plant that has the P57 molecule for appetite suppression.  The other versions of Hoodia do not.  So if you see a product that just states “Hoodia” on the label and not specifically “Hoodia Gordonii”, be aware you may be purchasing a worthless product for weight loss.

To make matter worse, the high demand for Hoodia has caused farmers to use Hoodia Gordonii plants which haven’t yet matured.  These immature plants contain little if any of the P57 molecule which is the portion of Hoodia that gives the fantastic appetite suppression effect.  So while cultivating young plants could technically be pure Hoodia, they could be useless for appetite suppression.

Pure Hoodia Gordonii will often cost as much as $300 per kilogram and that means that any cheap Hoodia that claims to contain very high concentrations of the supplement may be misleading,  perhaps finding ways to get around their CITES certification by falsely claiming they have somehow concentrated down your doses, or one of many popular methods of duping the public. They may not only be lying; they may have included other ingredients and fillers to dilute the overall formula, posing potential health risks and costing you additional money.

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With the increase in the popularity of Hoodia Gordonii’s, there has been an explosion in the amount of companies who mislead customers by selling strains that are either not from African strains of the plant or have been genetically altered. 

Authentic South African Hoodia Gordonii takes as long as 7 years to grow and harvest and is very rare. 

Recently, Hoodia has come under the protection of the United Nations and the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) initiative.

This means Hoodia Gordonii is pure, legally grown and strictly regulated for export to the USA by the South African government and the United Nations. CITES is recognized by all UN countries to protect endangered wildlife and plants.  This agreement makes importing or exporting goods that are not properly certified a criminal activity.

A Hoodia Gordonii product for sale without the required testing certification as proof of authenticity should be highly avoided.  Buyers must be highly aware of the risk of being deceived by these products. 

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Hoodia Gordonii has been shown to work as an appetite suppressant by accessing the part of the brain that controls  hunger.  The hypothalamus receives this signal and believes that food has been received, causing it to turn off its hunger receptors and allows you to continue without combating the incessant thoughts of food that plague you day in and day out. The chemicals in Hoodia in effect fool your brain into thinking you are no longer hungry.

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Hoodia Gordonii is the official scientific botanical name for a species of succulent plant that grows only in the semi-arid regions of the Kalarahi Desert in South Africa.  While there are over a dozen species of Hoodia plants, only one, Hoodia Gordonii has been shown to have merit with weight loss.

Attempts to farm the species Hoodia gordonii outside its normal habitat have typically been  unsuccessful.  Hoodia plants are incredibly difficult to grow, requiring a lot of care and attention to their watering, sunlight exposure, and precise seasonal temperatures. 

The plant, known for its lack of leaves and spiky appearance, has been used by the local inhabitants of the region – the San Bushmen – to keep from feeling the pangs of hunger and thirst while on long hunts in the desert. These tribesmen, who call the plant “Ghaap” or sometimes “Khobab” or “Khoi,” have been using the plant for hundreds of years to preserve their closely held tradition to return to the tribe with the entire hunt, not eating any of it along the way. Only Hoodia Gordonii can waylay these hunger pangs long enough for them to do so.

Recently discovered by scientists, Hoodia Gordonii has enormous implications as an appetite suppressant and weight loss supplement because of its chemical makeup. Having researched the plant for many years, these scientists have uncovered and pinpointed the P57 Compound, a chemical extract found only in this species of Hoodia plant that has been proven 100% safe and effective in stalling the process that signals hunger in the human body. 

Unlike other chemical and natural substances that have performed similarly in the weight loss industry, Hoodia Gordonii contains no stimulants and acts directly on the brain’s hunger receptors, ensuring the negative side effects and anxiety that result because of the use of stimulants does not occur.

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