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It is impossible for all the sellers of Hoodia to be selling real Hoodia Gordonii. The plant grows extremely slowly, and takes usually about four or five years but even up to seven years for real Hoodia Gordonii to reach its peak for harvesting. It also will only grow properly in the deserts of South Africa, though efforts were made to grow Hoodia in the Southern United States and in Mexico the differences in soil and rainfall and other factors resulted in plants that were extremely low in the active ingredient, P-57. To add to the problems of the availability there is only one company in the world licensed to produce real Hoodia for weight loss purposes. Real Hoodia Gordonii is also listed as a protected species, adding to difficulties. When you are searching for your supplement or spray it is important to look for a CITES certificate, or inquire about it. This is the best way to ensure you are buying real Hoodia, it shows not only that the plant came from South Africa, but that it was grown and harvested legally in a farm rather than taken from the wild where it is protected.

Pure Hoodia is actually a lot harder to find than you might think. There are a lot of companies which at first appear to be offering pure hoodia, but upon closer examination have diluted the extract with filler or other appetite suppressants. To add another appetite suppressant to pure hoodia will take away one of its best features, the fact that pure hoodia has no side effects. To add filler to pure hoodia sometimes means that your body does not get enough of it at a time to have a strong impact on appetite. A lot of the time this tainting and diluting is done by the manufacturer who receives pure hoodia but decides to mix it with something else, and other times the farmers who sell it to the supplement manufacturers will start out with pure hoodia but then choose to add Hoodia roots, or leaves or any other number of plant materials to get more product and make higher profits. To ensure you are getting pure hoodia gordonii always check the ingredient page of a retailer of “pure Hoodia”; although some companies are deceptive in their marketing they rarely blatantly lie if you read the fine print, and this will tell you the strength and if the supplement is pure Hoodia.

Although Hoodia can be found in some health food stores and grocery store chains, buying Hoodia online is by far the most popular method of obtaining it. Getting your supplements of Hoodia online is also the way that you are going to locate the most powerful extracts of the plant. Because it is an all natural and safe substance free of side effects, you can buy Hoodia online without any sort of prescription and not worry about violating any laws. However this does not mean you should not be a little bit wary about buying Hoodia online. First of all, while it is not technically a cactus it does grow like one: very slowly. This unfortunately makes it rather expensive. If a site will let you buy Hoodia online for less than about $40 for a month's supply there are two potential reasons for this. The first is they have diluted the extract substantially and usually to the point where it will have very little effect on the human body or they are selling a type of Hoodia plant that does not contain the appetite suppressing substance P-57. In either case you should not buy Hoodia online from these sites. You can be sure that you are getting pure Hoodia online from simply looking at the ingredients; while companies that dilute the extract are sometimes misleading the customer they will almost never outright lie about the ingredients. To make sure you are getting the right type of Hoodia online you should make sure that it is South African Hoodia gordonii, the only type with the molecule P-57.

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