Hoodia gordonii tabs
Hoodia gordonii tabs are also often referred to as hoodia gordonii pills. In short, any type of hoodia based product that comes in a capsule type form for easy use.
Hoodia gordoni tabs are our personal favorite way to use hoodia.
For more info on why we don't like the other delivery mechanisms, please see examples listed on such pages as hoodia patch and hoodia liquid extract.
However, we'll give you the short version to the answer here on why we prefer hoodia gordoni pills and capsules.
The tribe that first discovered hoodia gordonii, called the Sans Bushmen, have been using it for thousands of years. They cut off a piece of the stalk, remove the tough skin, and then consume what's inside to reduce their appetite.
So, just eating the plant itself would be the best option it seems to us.
However, the only way one could eat the hoodia plant is if one had the option to grow hoodia.
And growing hoodia from hoodia seeds is not an option, unfortunately, because hoodia gordonii is a very rare plant and is protected by international trade regulations via something called a hoodia c.i.t.e.s. certificate.
Even if you resided in South Africa, it requires a permit from the proper regulatory agencies to grow, cultivate and harvest hoodia gordonii.
In short, sourcing seeds, then growing and eating the hoodia plant itself like the Sans Bushmen do is not an option for us who live in the Western world.
Now, when a company makes hoodia gordoni tabs -- assuming they are using authentic hoodia gordonii --whole plant itself is ground up into powder and encapsulated -- or, another method (which we find preferable) is that the plant is placed in an alcohol solution, which pulls out a lot of the useless fillers -- pulply leaves, skin, fibrous material, and so forth, leaving a concentrated form of the good stuff. See our Hoodia extract page for more on this.
Keep in mind that there is an active ingredient in hoodia gordonii that is responsible for its appetite reducing effects. This ingredient is not present in such things as the skin (which the Sans Bushmen do not eat themselves) and other fibrous material.
Now, if you have this ground up powder, whether it be from the whole plant or concentrated, and then placed into hoodia gordoni tabs for use....that seems to us the closest thing one can get to what the Sans Bushmen do because you are actually consuming material from the plant itself.
Keep in mind we're not saying that tabs or pills or capsules are necessarily better than the other delivery forms on the market; we simply don't know.
This is just our opinion, no more and no less. For example, hoodia patches are stuck on some part of your body and then supposedly time release the ingredients, which pass thru your skin and into your bloodstream....not unlike a nicotene patch in theory.
But until and unless studies come out showing such delivery mechanisms actually work, we'll pass. After all, the Sans Bushmen aren't walking around with hoodia patches stuck on their arms in the Desert. No, they just eat the plant, plain and simple.
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