Today’s Hoodia Diet Pills: An End-Of-Year 2007 Hoodia Update

It’s the last day of 2007 and since I haven’t done an update on the hoodia industry since late summer, I thought I better provide one before the New Year rolls in. In my summer hoodia update, I talked about how the price of raw hoodia gordonii was coming down and (2), how cultivated hoodia dominated the industry. Surprisingly, nothing has changed since that report.

The price of raw hoodia gordonii still continues to fluctuate somewhere between $200-$250/kilo and the prices of hoodia supplements have reflected this decrease in price. Desert Burn Hoodia, the market leaders in providing high-quality hoodia diet pills, lowered their prices in late summer and hasn’t raised them since. When they reduced their prices, I expected it to be temporary but it appears the new lower prices are permanent – at least for the time being.

If you make a 3-bottle purchase of Desert Burn and apply the $10 instant coupon found in my free hoodia report, you’ll pay just a little over $43/bottle. That’s more than 13% less than just six months ago. That might not seem like a significant price drop, but considering the prices of hoodia supplements have gone up every year and a bottle was approaching $60 just six months ago, it’s very significant.

In addition to the downward trend of prices in hoodia supplements, there is a downward trend for the demand in hoodia as well. If you take a look at Google trends, you’ll see that hoodia’s popularity fell dramatically in 2007. In fact, it’s at the lowest point it’s been since the beginning of 2005. While I expect there to be a slight up tick in its popularity in the first few months of 2008, the busiest months for diet supplements sales, I expect the overall downward trend to continue.

The other thing I mentioned in the summer hoodia update was the fact that most hoodia supplements sold today contained cultivated hoodia and not wild hoodia gordonii. This still holds true. The only company that has confirmed that they are making hoodia supplements with 100% wild-grown hoodia gordonii (the type of hoodia believed to be the most potent) is Hoodia Hoodia. I asked the companies behind the brands listed on my best rated hoodia page and they either didn’t respond or they confirmed that they are using cultivated hoodia.

There still seems to be a debate over which type of hoodia is the most potent. Based on my conversation with some hoodia insiders, there may be a valid argument for wild hoodia gordonii being the most potent. That does not mean, however, that brands using cultivated hoodia are worthless. It simply means that it might take more for it to work. You’ll have to monitor your response and adjust your hoodia dosage accordingly. The dosage that might have been effective several months ago may not be as effective today.

There you have it - your end-of-year 2007 hoodia update. Hopefully the prices of hoodia diet pills will continue to remain low and drop even more in 2008. And we’ll have to see how the whole cultivated vs. wild-grown hoodia debate shakes out. I don’t expect much to change there either, but hopefully we’ll get some conclusive evidence one way or another over which is most potent and if there really is any real differences. Until we know for sure, the best thing to do to address this issue is to monitor your response and adjust your dosage accordingly.