What is all the fuss about appetite suppressants? Exactly what happens when you stop taking them?
When it was discovered that the African cactus Hoodia Gordonii had appetite suppressing qualities – an entire industry sprang up overnight. Spam and sales pitches are a dime a dozen – despite there being no assurances that any hoodia product actually does what it claims.
Caralluma Fimbriata
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Now there is the Indian version – an edible succulent called Caralluma Fimbriata – marketed under the brand name Slimaluma.Apparently the Caralluma plant is a vegetable used daily in rural parts of India, and it has a reputation of having appetite suppressing qualities:
Indian tribals chew chunks of Caralluma Fimbriata to suppress hunger when on a day’s hunt. This succulent is used amongst the labor classes in South India to suppress appetite and enhance endurance.
Slimaluma is already being used as an active ingredient in a number of weight loss formulas – based on the results of a few very small clinical trials.
Whether appetite suppressants in a pill form are effective or not – the overall concept is flawed. Any time you take a pill in the hopes of easy results – you fail to learn anything about healthful nutrition, better eating habits, or physical fitness. All of these factors (and more) are required to maintain a healthy lifestyle at an appropriate weight.
Cyndi,
No need to be so harsh…part of the major part of the weight loss game is attitude and mentality…Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right…let them have that if that’s what it will take for someone to be successful…you completely contradicted yourself by shooting darts into the balloon of hope and then saying it’s all in your head…that’s where it needs to be…
I tried Hoodia and that stuff made me eat more than I normally did. Honestly it triggered something in me and I ate everything I could get my hands on. I let two other people try it and they had the same thing happen to them. It’s just too bad there are so many products out there that do not work. I have yo yo dieted so much that now I cannot lose a pound. It’s very depressing. Glad Hoodia worked for you!
While most appetite suppressants are based on crazy drugs or exotic herbs, there is one 100% natural and at best of all… cheap!
Have you heard about Yerba Mate? It containes 196 active compounds, compared to only 144 for green tea.
Researchers at the Pasteur Institute concluded “ yerba mate contains practically all the vitamins necessary to sustain life”.
I drink it everyday especially before meals and it takes that “crazy hunger” feeling away. You definetely eat less and you are still well-fed.
One last thing I´d recommend… if you try it go organic using the traditional way.
Your comment makes no sense. Portion control alone will leave you hungry if you are used to eating more. This is why a lot of people look for appetite suppressants. Only after your stomach shrinks are you satisfied with less food, not the other way around.
having good nutrition while you are on diet will be the healthy way to go .
Regards
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I’m actually working in the industry. While many of the products on the market make excessive claims and don’t really contain the active ingredients like nopal or hoodia powder, my company really does spend enormous amount of money to source for the premium active ingredients from France. I cannot say the name of my company because of business confidentiality, we do business to business activities rather than business to consumers, but let me suggest you to try PROACTOL. It contains 100% opuntia ficus indica extract (cactus) and some excipients to make the pill form. It is all natural and there will be no serious side effects. It is actually a fiber (soluble + insolube) hence you may experience bloating for some people. You can google this up and please do read a lot before you make any decision. Good luck.
Made in india !!!!
That says it all. I would never buy a health product made in India. Why? because I don’t trust them. I would pay more to get more.
One of my brothers had a severe health problem because he had bought a “Made in china” diet product…
Damn Straight Ross!
I too have read that the amounts of Hoodia we are sold are nothing like the real thing. Any more than 800mg and you would feel sick. Because the supplement companies aren’t regualted by the FDA, there are no standards to go by. Kind of scary really.
So I also have to agree about the CITES thing. Check sources and do the research.
I was also wanting to try Hoodia and the other Idnian plant, mostly because my job has us constantly on the move (animal keeper) and we sometimes just don’t have time to stop and even eat/swallow small nutrition bars! The weight loss part for me would only be an added bonus. For now I just can’t stand the gnawing pangs and not being able to do anything about it.
There is actually one suppressant out there that contains the real hoodia gordonii. If it doesn’t say that, then you’re not getting the real thing. It’s called “DEX L10 Hoodia Gordonii – Natural Appetite Suppressant, 60 caps., (Nutralab)”
I have tried a few weight loss products. The ones that claim to fill you up so you don’t feel hungry are full of fiber. They did fill me up but the continual addition of fiber packed in my stomach resulting a very distended stomach and constipation. (Not good!) And even though my stomach was full, very full, MY MOUTH WAS STILL HUNGRY! As I understand it, the caralluma fimbriata is supposed to send signals to the brain that I am not hungry.
However, my opinion about the whole ‘obese’ epidemic is not entirely our fault. The food industry is pressured to produce a lot of food in a short time. Out animals are fed antibiotics and hormones to make them grow fast and big. We, in turn, eat the meat and grown fast and big. Make sense??? Everything we buy off the shelf is filled with that very, very addictive food additive called sugar, even when it’s not needed. A lot of foods would taste much better unsweetened.
And, yes, menopause wreaks havoc on our bodies! Most of the weight loss products speed up metabolism to burn fat. This means it makes our bodies produce heat. After ten years of hot flashes, the last thing I need is more body heat. The only product I’ve found to tame the hot flashes is HRT (hormones), and yes, hormones cause weight gain.
Every person’s body is different, and we each respond to products differently. So we either give up and live with it, OR we hang in there and keep trying till we find the one thing that works.
hi i am wondering where can i purchase hoodithin?
I was a super fat dude forever. Yes I know that exercise is the key but when you are used to eating like a pig all the time it’s hard to change that. It’s a habit. Hoodia helped me by taking away the urges. I’ve stopped taking it now and I haven’t gone back to pigging out because after you stop pigging out for a while guess what…you form new eating habits and then its pretty easy.
No doubt about it though that regular exercise is the best cure for losing weight. The tread mill works wonders if you get on it everyday! Also, and this is a no brainer but eating much less also is key. Your body is like a suit case. The more you put in, the more it bulges.
None-the-less I love hoodia and what it can do for you. It works just like they say and it helps out alot. Coffee or green tea is also good…black coffee that it. Man, I got fat on a diet once just cuz I was drinking too much damn coffee. Tons of sugar and cream…got to be black coffee.
By the way, if you are on a major diet and you have the most horrible case of the munchies try eating celery and salsa! It’s pretty good and there’s like no calories in it. Kind of a weird combination but it’s pretty good.
Great points made on appetite suppressant pills and their limitations. People serious about losing weight have to look at the bigger picture instead of relying on a pill to solve their weight loss issue.
Thanks for all the real comments, I was scared to try Hoodia, but I see now that trying it along with eating right just might get me on the right track to losing weight.
It is unfair to say that appetite suppressants will only cause yo-yo dieting. I eat right, including lots of fiber, and I exercise a lot. The problem is, if I eat light enough to lose weight, I am STARVING and can think of nothing besides food. I tried eating more fiber, more protein, both only helped a little; I was still miserable. Caralluma has been a life saver! Now I can better stick to my calorie goal! Yes, there are no miracle pills. Eating right and exercising MUST be the foundation. But there is nothing wrong with getting a little help.
Folks, P57 belongs to PhytoPharm and is the molecule they want to develop synthetically. Still this initial premise is based on folk medicine of the San tribal bushmen. The problems with this besides the fact that the hoodia gordonii cacti are now an endangered species is that American suburban dieters in no way compare as subjects to San bushmen. What I mean is this, I agree with the initial poster… The San go for days, yes days without food when hunting game. They walk for miles in the desert all this while. They are in extremely good shape compared to the average dieter and in no way could the average dieter go for days without food. The San do this out of necessity. I am unconvinced that suburban dieters who have a pantry full of snack foods will go without snacking even if they had some authentic hoodia. There are more factors to dietary intake than hunger alone. But, we really won’t ever prove this, because the plant is rare. The only note I would add is that P57 does not act as sugar or glucose for the brain, the research compares P57 as a modulator to glucose and finds it to be 10,000 as potent as a modulator signalling the brain of a state of satiety. The other problem I see is that PhytoPharm has isolated a molecule, “a molecule” out of the complex of molecules that make up the plant. This is not to suggest a synthetic molecule works as well as the actual whole plant, just that the original plant cannot be patented as it is found in nature. To sum this all up, most consumer Hoodia products likely contain none of the actual plant. So the debate as to whether hoodia would or could work for suburban dieters is really a null arguement.