Can The New Hoodia Patch Make You Lose Weight
Doug Smith

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Can a 2 foot tall, cactus like, native plant of South Africa's Kalahari Desert region produce an effective hoodia patch? Perhaps it can. Hoodia's alleged weight loss properties due to appetite suppression have many industries creating many hoodia products, such as a weight loss patch.

Like all new weight loss products, the demand for a hoodia patch is high. Overweight people will buy almost anything promising fast, easy weight loss, especially if no exercise is involved. Worldwide media coverage has bolstered the image of a patch with hoodia as the new miracle weight loss supplement. At this time, hoodia gordonii is in extremely limited supply for making a patch or any other kind of weight loss supplement.

Drug laboratories are having incredible difficulty in creating hoodia's active ingredient to put in a patch. Any company that discovers how to synthesize the hoodia gordonii active ingredient P57 would be worth a fortune. Therefore, the actual hoodia plant of South Africa is the only true source of hoodia appetite suppressant ingredients. The gordonii species grows only in the South African region, and hoodia is protected internationally by import and export laws.

The hoodia P57 chemical appears to hold the secret of this natural appetite suppressant. It seems to tell the brain that the stomach is full and not hungry. Kalahari residents have used the hoodia gordonii plant for centuries to suppress their hunger on long trips. Major news networks have sent reporters to eat raw hoodia, with promising results. However these are not scientific studies, and there are very few hoodia gordonii studies available to study the effects of a patch.

A patch is a method for delivering a controlled, time-release dosage of a substance through the skin. Patches containing hoodia would contain the P57 chemical to be absorbed through the skin. The patch would be replaced when the hoodia gordonii active ingredient was depleted.

More controlled studies are needed on hoodia gordonii to prove the plant's appetite suppressing properties. Once the studies are completed and verified, licensed companies need to solve the problems of mass production of the hoodia main ingredient. Only then can hoodia supplements such as pills, capsules, and a hoodia patch be made available.

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