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Hoodia Patch: Effective Weight Loss Aid or Scam?

Hoodia PatchThe hoodia patch has gained in popularity recently due to its affordable price and convincing claims made by those who sell them. What dieter could resist all those free trials and claims that they’ll “get a slow release of hoodia gordonii throughout the day to suppress appetite?”

It sounds like the perfect weight loss solution - it’s cheap and it works better than any other hoodia product. Not so fast. The first red flag is the price. As I’ve mentioned on this website, authentic hoodia gordonii is scarce and as a result, isn’t cheap. A bottle of hoodia gordonii diet pills will cost around $60 per bottle and will only last a few weeks. Do you think you’re getting authentic hoodia gordonii in hoodia patches that are being offered for free or practically given away?

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Another red flag is how the hoodia patch is being marketed. The sellers of hoodia patches will claim that a patch is more effective than diet pills because you’ll get a slow release of hoodia gordonii into the bloodstream throughout the day. The end result is your appetite will be suppressed throughout the day! How great that would be if it were actually true.

The theory behind the hoodia patch is that the hoodia gordonii bypasses the stomach and reaches the bloodstream directly through the skin, resulting in quicker and more effective appetite suppression. The reality is it doesn’t work.

There hasn’t been one scientific or clinical study
that shows hoodia patches work.

What about nicotine and birth control patches? There is a big difference between the hoodia patch and those products. Nicotine patches once required a prescription and birth control patches can only be obtained through a prescription. Hoodia patches have never required a prescription.

Why is this important? When a product requires a prescription, it has been studied extensively and has passed rigorous governmental regulations to prove that it works as advertised. Otherwise, it wouldn’t require a prescription.

Even if you believe that argument doesn’t prove anything, think about the history of the hoodia plant for a moment. I think once you do, you’ll see that the hoodia patch can’t be as effective as hoodia diet pills. Stick with me on this.

Hoodia gordonii is a cactus-like plant that is found primarily in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. Is has been used for centuries by the Bushmen to stave off hunger during long hunting trips. They cut off a 2-3 inch piece of the plant and eat it. When a small piece of the hoodia plant is eaten raw, it suppresses appetite for hours.

Since obtaining raw hoodia gordonii isn’t convenient (or cheap), what do you think is the next best thing? Getting it from a capsule that contains the powdered form of it, or from a small patch that sticks to your skin and supposedly contains enough extract of it? I think you’d agree that the capsule is the closest thing to eating the plant raw.

I’m not suggesting that every hoodia diet pill
on the market is effective - quite the contrary.
Sadly, the majority of the hoodia supplements sold today are fake.

Only a handful of hoodia products contain authentic hoodia gordonii. Hoodoba and Desert Burn hoodia diet pills are two products that come to mind that contain the real deal. My point is that at least with hoodia capsules there are some that actually contain authentic hoodia gordonii and are said to be effective by dieters across the globe.

Hoodia patches, on the other hand, are another story. Not only has there not been a single independent lab test that shows any of them contain hoodia gordonii, but there is very little evidence by dieters that they actually work.

You can tell I’m not a big fan of the hoodia patch. To be completely frank, I think they’re a total rip off and I hope you avoid them at all costs. It would be great if someday they were proven to be equally effective as a capsule because they’d be so convenient. Until that day comes, however, I encourage you to stick with traditional hoodia diet pills.