CoreHoodia.com
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- Hoodia Gordonii comes from South Africa. Hoodia is a cactus like plant that has an ability to suppress appetite and promote weight loss. CBS 60 Minutes, NBC, ABC, BBC and numerous other broadcasters have done stories on hoodia. Hoodia Gordonii can be foundin the semi-deserts of South Africa. It grows in clumps of green upright stems and is actually a succulent, not a cactus. It takes about 5 years before hoodia's pale purple flowers appear and the cactus can be harvested. Although there are 20 types of hoodia, only the hoodia gordonii variety is believed to contain the natural appetite suppressant. Although hoodia was discovered relatively recently, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert have been eating it for a very long time. The Bushmen, who live off the land, eat it to ward off hunger and thirst during nomadic hunting trips. South African scientists, working with a British company named Phytopharm, isolated the active ingredient in hoodia, a steroidal glycoside, which they named p57. After getting a patent in 1995, the South African government licensed p57 to Phytopharm. In 1998, Phytopharm sub-licensed the rights to develop Hoodia Gordonii with the p57 to Pfizer for $21 million. Pfizer determined that it was not economically viable to turn the product into a pharmaceutical prescription grade product and recently returned the rights to Phytopharm.
