Problems and Pitfalls with Hoodia

By far the largest potential pitfall with Hoodia Gordonii is the difficulty of finding out whether or not your intended supplier is actually selling genuine Hoodia Gordonii, or an adulterated version with a fraction of the necessary active ingredient, or even a completely counterfeit product containing no Hoodia Gordonii whatsoever.

According to Mike Adams, a top journalist with News Target, as many as 80% of all Hoodia products may be fakes, or at best contain only a fraction of the necessary ingredients. This is a problem even if the website you buy from has a certificate of authenticity on it.

Although there are laboratories which will test the samples given to them, and issue certificates of authenticity, it is always possible for the determined con artist to get around the rules. Many of them will send a sample to the laboratory for certification, and then sell a watered down version of the product to customers.

Phytopharm, who hold the license to the patents on Hoodia, have stated that they believe most of the Hoodia products on the market today have less than 0.1% of the active ingredient that they should have.

These scam sites do offer a money back guarantee, but on what basis could that operate? Weight loss, even with totally effective products, is not quick. By the time a few months have passed, and no lasting improvement has occurred, the company selling the ineffective product has already profited handsomely from doing so.

The best course of action is to do a lot of research, especially on the internet, and find out which journalists have enough of a reputation not to want to ruin them by recommending shoddy products.

The main potential problem with any health related product is obviously side effects. Many, if not most, of the websites selling Hoodia products will claim that Hoodia has absolutely no side effects. That may or may not be true, we simply do not know yet.

Phytopharm, the British company that owns the license to the patents filed on Hoodia, is currently engaged in extensive testing to try and determine what, if any, side effects Hoodia does produce.

All that can be said at the current time is that there are no known side effects of Hoodia Gordonii, and therefore it is very unlikely that the clinical trials will produce evidence of any major problems caused by its regular use. At the moment it looks as though a genuine discovery of far reaching importance has been made.