Q: How can people sell Hoodia over the internet when I heard that Pfizer bought the exclusive rights to market the Hoodia Cactus?
A: First, let's clear up that Hoodia Gordonii is a Succulent and not a cactus.
Second, Pfizer agreed to purchase (for Twenty One Million Dollars) the rights from the UK pharmaceutical company "Phytopharm" to develop the P57 molecule into a drug and not the rights to the Hoodia Gordonii Succulent.
The P57 molecule is the key ingredient that happens to be found in the Hoodia Gordonii Succulent and is responsible for appetite suppression.
Q: How long will it be until Pfizer comes out with their diet drug?
A: Last we heard Pfizer chose to back out of the agreement with Phytopharm. Phytopharm has not released any information as to the direction that they will be taking in regards to the development of the P57 molecule.
Q: Is it better to buy Hoodia from a US Company or a Foreign company.
A: The problem dealing with a Foreign
company is what recourse do you have if the product isn't real? Also when
dealing with foreign exchange rates take a close look to see if they are
charging you in US Dollars or in their local currency.
One UK firm is charging it's customers 39.95 GBP for their Hoodia Diet Pills
which on the surface seems like a pretty good price but when you receive you
credit card statement you are going to be shocked to discover that it actually
cost you $71.77 US per bottle because of current exchange rates.
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DON'T GIVE A FOREIGN
COMPANY YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION WITHOUT AT LEAST KNOWING WHAT THE CURRENT
CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES ARE FIRST! (THIS GOES FOR PAYPAL CUSTOMERS TOO!)
Q: How do I know if the company that I'm buying from has real Hoodia
Gordonii Succulent in their pills or not?
A: If you are wanting to use Hoodia Gordonii Succulent as an appetite suppressant we recommend that you don't buy from recent start up companies who are just getting on the Hoodia bandwagon. These companies will be here today but gone the first time there is any trouble.
Purchase from a company that only uses 100% Hoodia Gordonii Succulent in a refined powder form. The main reason for this is that you have a better chance of it being genuine Hoodia Gordonii Succulent because the refined powder is easier to authenticate. Plus the refined powder is the closest to the Hoodia Gordonii Succulent in it's natural state. (Only the water is removed from the plant before it is ground into a fine powder.) Once you start adding other dietary ingredients with the Hoodia Gordonii refined powder the identification process gets more difficult but not impossible.
Q: I have seen different companies offering different types of Hoodia in their product. What is the difference between Hoodia Gordon refined powder and Hoodia Gordonii 20:1 extract?
A: As stated in the above answer the
Hoodia Gordonii refined powder is the closest you can get to natural Hoodia
Gordonii succulent and it's specific botanical markers are easily identifiable.
However the theory is if you take 20 lbs of Hoodia Gordonii Succulent and you
extract it through an extreme heat and alcohol process you will end up with a
compound that is Twenty times stronger than it's original mass.
Remember I said "In Theory" because it might be Twenty times stronger than the
original but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to have Twenty times
more of the substance that you are wanting i.e. the P57 molecule. Both
lipodrene® and
TrimSpa® found this
out the hard way when both of their products claimed to have Hoodia Gordonii
20:1 Extract in them but when they were independently tested there was no
discernable Hoodia Gordonii found in them let alone the P57 molecule. (Both
companies have since switched over to using all natural Hoodia Gordonii
Succulent refined powder in their products.)
There is a scientific problem as well and that is the natural Hoodia Gordonii Succulents isolated markers that are identifiable in every Hoodia Gordonii Succulent plant in the world is molecularly changed during the extraction process and therefore it is scientifically impossible to identify the original organic material used once it's been through the extraction process.
Q: If that's the case wouldn't Hoodia Gordonii 20:1 extract cost 20 times more than Hoodia Gordonii refined powder?
A: Yes, so if you see Two Hoodia Gordonii products using the exact same amounts of Hoodia Gordonii but one uses Hoodia Gordonii refined powder and the other uses Hoodia Gordonii 20:1 extract the one with the 20:1 extract should theoretically cost 20 times more that the one that uses the refined powder.
Q: Then why would a company chose to use a 20:1 extract if the P57 molecule might not make it through the extraction process and it cost Twenty times more than the refined powder?
A: One would assume that you were purchasing genuine Hoodia Gordonii 20:1 extract from a reputable supplier that would have the P57 molecule in it but as soon as it was discovered that there wasn't any discernable P57 in the 20:1 Hoodia extract many manufactures quickly changed their formula to use the more natural Hoodia Gordonii Succulent refined powder instead.
THE BIG SCAM! When surfing the internet looking for pure Hoodia Gordonii succulent diet products we recommend that you stay away from any websites that try's to switch you from pure Hoodia Gordonii succulent diet products to another one of their other products that they offer. There are many companies out there that are putting the words "Pure Hoodia Gordonii Succulent" on their websites hoping that the search engines will pick them up and you will stumble across them accidentally and buy their product thinking that it has pure Hoodia Gordonii succulent in it. When in doubt look at the list of ingredients.