South African Hoodia Gordonii is the most sought after botanical of the decade. This cactus called hoodia (succulent hoodia gordonii), is cultivated by the tribe of the "San" to some 600 miles away of Johannesburg. Hoodia takes 2 years to grow and is not being grown in sustainable quantities by South African farmers.

It has become widely known as the greatest appetite suppressant of all time. Hoodia works where others have failed. Looking at it you might mistake it for a cactus but it is technically called a succulent as flowers blossom from it. Hoodia Gordonii grows naturally in the desert regions of South Africa. Hoodia Gordonii was relatively unknown until major drug companies discovered it possessed unique properties. It is gaining the reputation as the greatest appetite suppressant of all time. Many people are reporting excellent success when consuming this product.

The CBS 60 Minutes segment followed reporter Lesley Stahl as she traveled to the Kalahari Deserts of South Africa to investigate the wild stories circulating about a Succulent "Cactus" eaten by native Bushmen for hundreds of years. It had been reported that the eating of Hoodia Gordonii could stave off hunger and this discovery was attracting the interest and deep pockets of major pharmaceutical companies and being touted

The Greatest Appetite Suppressant of All Time.

Hoodia Gordonii researcher Dr. Richard Dixey explains how Hoodia Gordonii actually works:

"There is a part of your brain, the hypothalamus. Within that mid-brain there are nerve cells that sense glucose sugar. When you eat, blood sugar goes up because of the food, these cells start firing and now you are full."

"What the Hoodia seems to contain is a molecule that is about 10,000 times as active as glucose. It goes to the mid-brain and actually makes those nerve cells fire as if you were full. But you have not eaten. Nor do you want to.

Hoodia Gordonii is an extremely effective appetite suppressant.

This cactus has an incredible virtue: A molecule "miracle" which is highly active and acts directly on the part of the brain controlling satiety, like glucose does it. This molecule which acts directly with an aim of creating or of inhibiting the feeling of "hunger". Very many tests of laboratory show the capacity of Hoodia Gordonii to reduce caloric intake from 30 to 40% and deprived of side effects.

This molecule resulting from Hoodia "thus misleads" the brain and the body letting one believe that it has just eaten. It works by mimicking the effect that glucose has on nerve cells in the brain in effect fooling the body into thinking it is full, even when it is not, thus curbing the appetite. Furthermore, The people eating Hoodia noted an immediate improvement of their mood.