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22nd

5 Facts- The Hazards of Buying Counterfeit Hoodia Gordonii

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by James Comer

Question #1- Be Sure to ask yourself if the place that you are getting hoodia from allows ongoing, random, anonymous testing of all of their hoodia products. This should be from an independent lab.

Here is the reason why.

Some unscrupulous vendors will display their lot numbers and results from a lab considered to be very reputable. However, the only way to know that this is undisputable proof of the hoodia product’s potency is if the company permits ongoing, random and anonymous testing of the actual product that the consumer buys from them. This testing should be completely verifiable, and the testing should be done without the vendor knowing the exact place that the products were to be tested, , where purchased and when the products were tested. The results of each of these tests should be displayed right on the testing laboratory’s website.

Question #2 Purity? Is there an easy way to check to see if the hoodia product is made stricly from pure South African Hoodia Gordonii? There should be no additives or fillers.

There is a way. To determine purity, look under the Supplement Facts section of the label. Does it explicitly declare the absence of additives by displaying the word “None” in the “Other Ingredients” block? If it says anything other than “None,” it isn’t pure Hoodia gordonii!

There is a trick known as the “O.I. (Other Ingredients) trick. Unless the manufacturer lists the other ingredients as “None”, then it can list other fillers and additives as “Other Ingredients” and they can legally say that the product’s full gross weight as being true Hoodia Gordonii.

You see, the government allows the diet supplement industry to use certain “flow agents” to help simplify the manufacturing process.

The use of silica, cellulose, magnesium stereate, etc. can be easily avoided. However, scammers know that simply by declaring them on their labels as “Other Ingredients,” they can exploit a gaping loophole in the law at the customer’s expense. Therefore, they continue to do so.

Through the use of the high compression encapsulation techniques on the market these days, it’s not necessary for fillers and additives to be added- yet the “lesser” known companies continue to do this, and still be able to call it “pure”. Do you want “cheap” lesser potency hoodia, or potent and effective hoodia that’s “pure”?

Avoid the bait and switch technique where less than reputable companies give the lab a “special” genuine sample, then then sell you- the public, a fake or watered-down product.

Question #3: Is the hoddia that you are wanting to purchase claim to be Hoodia Gordonii of South African origin, or just plain “hoodia”? There are more than 20 varieties of Hoodia known to man, and the only one that has been proven to reduce calorie intake in humans is the South African hoodia. If you see “Chinese Hoodia” for example, you should consider it counterfeit.

Question #4: Which part of the hoodia plant is the product made from? It should be made from the biologically active part of the Hoodia gordonii Succulent. You’ll also need to know if the vendor uses only the peeled stem of the Hoodia gordonii plant.

Don’t buy hoodia gordonii from a company that’s using the “whole plant” or anything other than purely the “peeled stems”. These would automatically contain atleast 50% less of the hoodia’s active ingredients necessary for the effective suppression of appetite.

The P57-active part of Hoodia gordonii-the peeled stem, NOT the bark, NOT the flowers, and NOT the root. This (peeled stem) is the part that is effective for appetite suppression.

Question #5: How potent is the hoodia that you are planning to buy? Is it made up of the highest potentcy possible? This takes atleast 3 and a half years for the stems to grow before the farmers harvest them.

Hoodia that is milled from immature plants can test positve for hoodia, but yet still have very low levels of P-57 which is the ingredient that suppresses the appetite. Also, hoodia loses strength when it’s kiln dried or in open sunlight. Also, potency is lost when the hoodia is milled above a certain micron level.

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