Hoodia has been highly publicized as the newest weight loss miracle, suppressing your appetite.  Yes, appetite suppressants are actually the most effective of weight loss supplements, but they have to actually work to have that greater effect.  Hoodia has been credited with being used by the African bushmen, and some have even said that’s why they’re so skinny.  They have protruding bellies that are that way because they are starving and malnourished in general terms.  I mean honestly, if an anorexic person used hoodia, would you say that’s why they are so skinny?

No.  Either way, there are some that have made various claims about clinical studies, etc.  What they don’t mention is the fact that in all of those clinical studies, subjects did not actually lose more weight with hoodia than they did using the placebo.  Moreover, there have been reports from Phytofarm, a company that was trying to engineer a patented form of hoodia but then ran out of funding, that without more research it could actually cause serious liver damage.  Add to that the fact that hoodia is not shipped out of South Africa by law, so you can’t get it, and their story does not look good to say the least.  Either way, it’s one of those hyped up ingredients that should not actually be bought.