How Hoodia Gordonii Actually Works
When you eat hoodia, the saying goes, your hunger will simply be gone, gone for around six hours. During those six hours, you won’t crave anything. You really won’t want to eat at all. The food still smells good, as usual, and they taste the same if you eat them, but you don’t want to eat them! At least that’s what the hoodia advocates claim will happen.
To understand how all this works, you have to understand what “hunger” really is in the first place. Hunger is just an illusion. It’s a signal in your brain, a chemical message that causes you to feel certain feelings and, ultimately, act on them.
Your body creates the illusion of hunger even when you’re not really needing calories. And your body, like mine, doesn’t know when to turn it off.
The hunger signal is only turned off when your hypothalamus thinks you’ve eaten enough food. Your hypothalamus, part of your body’s endocrine system, decides this by sensing the rise of sugar (glucose) in your blood. Eat enough carbohydrates, and your blood sugar rises, which convinces your hypothalamus to tell your brain that you’re no longer hungry. This is why eating an apple is such an effective appetite suppressant.
Normally, to get your hypothalamus to turn off the hunger switch, you’d have to eat a moderate amount of food. And your hypothalamus isn’t very quick on the draw either: it takes around 20 minutes to figure out what you’ve eaten, and by that time, you’ve probably eaten another 800 calories. So by the time your hunger signal gets turned off, you’ve already overeaten yet again.
Hoodia, however, contains a chemical that gets picked up by your hypothalamus which thinks it’s glucose. And as it turns out, this chemical is reportedly 10,000 times more potent than glucose in triggering the chemical receptors in your hypothalamus, and so it only takes a tiny bit of this chemical to trigger the cancellation of your hunger signals.
Let me say this another way: eat this chemical, and your hypothalamus thinks you’ve just wolfed down three plates of food at the local buffet. Your hunger is abruptly cancelled. You just don’t feel hungry anymore. Everything else is fine: there are no known side effects. But you simply don’t feel like eating. At least that’s what the hoodia companies explain you should experience.
Consuming hoodia is surprisingly simple: slice off a piece of the succulent, peel off the thorns, and just start chewing on it. You don’t even need to swallow it. The taste is rather bitter by most Americans’ palettes, but after several minutes of chewing, you’ve already started absorbing the chemical. Guess what? Your hunger is vanishing with each passing moment. Of course the Hoodia available to the western consumer is in the preferred from of tablets, capsules or liquid.
The San Tribesmen, the original discovers of the plant, also say it makes you feel stronger, more energetic, and more focused. Nobody complains of any side effects whatsoever, and the plant has been chewed for literally thousand of years by various generations of the San, with no ill effects known whatsoever.
For most people, that’s the whole solution right there. Turn off the hunger and almost anybody can lose weight. If you have absolutely no craving for food, and your body isn’t tricking you into eating another tub of ice cream by creating the illusion of hunger, then you’ve got the problem solved.
If you add in a bit of exercise, say, 30 minutes of walking each day, suddenly you’re boosting your metabolism naturally and you’re not stuffing your face with twice as many calories as you burned during the walk.
If you could turn off your hunger, you could lose weight without needing military discipline. I hate to say the word “automatically,” because I think you still have to be responsible in how you approach your diet, but turning off the hunger is as close to automatic weight loss as you can get.
A Review of Hoodia Ingredients through a Weight Loss Perspective
Hoodia Gordonii Plus is considered to be one of the most sought after weight loss supplements today. It assures dieters an effective and safe way to shed off wanted pounds naturally, without any side effects. If you try to think about it, Hoodia supplements may sound too good to be true.
Hoodia Gordonii supplements are not like weight loss drugs. They are food supplements that do not contain chemical stimulants as most weight loss pills do. You might be aware how these stimulants may possibly give way to harmful effects in the body. In that case, what ingredients does Hoodia Gordonii Plus contain? What about Hoodia makes it a very effective yet natural weight loss pill?
To help us answer these questions, let’s try examining the main components that you can find on labels of Hoodia Gordonia Plus bottles. Each Hoodia Gordonii Plus weight loss pill is made up of the following:
- Hoodia Gordonii (Pure) - 400 mg. Hoodia is the main ingredient that has the ability to control appetite. The compound called P57 has been discovered to be the active ingredient responsible for its weight loss effect. This compound has the ability to trick the brain into believing that you have already eaten a lot. This way, you can take in less food without worrying about feeling hungry soon.
- Garcina Camboga Extract - 50 mg. Commonly called cambooge, this plant also has been found to help in decreasing appetite and hasten fat and calorie buring. It allows faster fat and calorie metabolism mainly because it can speed up the conversion of food into glycogen which in turn sends a nerve impulse to the brain so it can effectively suppress appetite, as in Hoodia Gordonii.
- Extract from Green Tea - 50 mg. Green tea extract is very popular as an anti-oxidant and its ability to fight cancer. Aside from this, it is also seen to increase metabolism and hasten burning of fats and calories.
- Magnesium is a very important mineral which is found in most multivitamin formulations. It helps strengthen the heart and muscles. Furthermore, it also helps your body to properly absorb vitamins and minerals.
- Proprietary Blend. This proprietary blend consists of a number of plant-based enzymes. All these supports your digestive to make sure that it is good condition despite the dieting.
Based on these, you can probably see that Hoodia Gordonii Plus was formulated to help you lose weight in the most natural way. Hoodia helps you cut down on your intake of