Hoodia Patch

Some also call it the hoodia diet patch.

Whatever you want to call it, our opinion is that these patch products for hoodia are nothing but a desperate attempt to capitalize on the current huge demand and interest in hoodia gordonii.

How's the hood patch allegedly suppose to work?

The short answer is that you're supposed to stick it to your skin and then hoodia will be released from it, passing through your skin and then into your bloodstream. Then it will supposedly diminish your appetite through the course of the day and -- viola! -- like magic you will lose weight as you eat less.

That's all well and good but there is no proof or scientific studies that show the so called hoodia diet patch works whatsoever.

Now we're not saying that the capsule, pill, or supplement hoodia products on the market have been proven to work in scientific studies either.

In fact, up till this date (as of early 2006), only one decent, placebo controlled scientific study has been conducted that we know of and that was done through Phytopharm, the pharmaceutical company that owns the patent to p57, the active ingredient in hoodia gordonii that is responsible for its appetite killing benefits.

And in this study, which was extremely encouraging because the morbidly obese people who were on hoodia gordonii consumed on average a 1,000 less calories per day compared to the placebo group, the subjects ingested hoodia gordonii -- i.e., took it internally.

The subjects didn't use a hoodia patch.

Also, the Sans Bushmen, the primitive tribe who live in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, who have been using hoodia gordonii for thousands of years to reduce their appetite do not use a hoodia diet patch!

No. Rather, they cut off the stem, skin it, and then eat it the flesh.

Now, none of us can do this because none of us are allowed to import this protected and rare plant to grow for our own personal use.

But, in our opinion, the closest thing you could get to what the Sans Bushmen do is to take the hoodia plant, grind it up into powder, and then put it into capsules or supplements to be swallowed. And this is exactly what some companies that sell hoodia gordonii supplements do.

Bottomline: our opinion, and again it's only our opinion, is to avoid the hoodia diet patch -- but if you want to use it, or do more research on it, that's your call to make.

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