Side Effects With Hoodia Gordonii

Health foods are the entire craze now. Exercising and having a
healthy body is a top priority for many people these days. With
this comes a plethora of different forms of exercises and diets.
One of the fast up and coming health food lifestyle is the
Hoodia Gordonii.

The benefits of using Hoodia Gordonii are by far more striking
than what has been available in the past. Compared to health
foods right now it has more health benefits and is more
understood. With this method, you have no diets to stick to, it
decreases appetite so you don’t feel starved, gives a great
feeling of general good health and energy, completely natural
and safe to use, won’t keep you awake at night, no specialty
food and most of all no stimulants and harmful side effects.

Being classified in South Africa as a food and not a drug,
Hoodia Gordonii’s only side effect will cause your brain to
believe that you are “full” which only lasts for 24 hours even
without the sufficient amount of food ingested. This could be
aproblem if you need the energy and power to do strenuous
activities.

Local SAN bushmen whose ancestors have been using the plant for
thousand years, confirms that there are no negative side effects
with Hoodia.Gordonii.

The great worry associated with Hoodia is if it is abused by
individuals with eating disorders that wants rapid weight lose,
individuals with distorted body images who want to have intense
weight lose in a short period of time, often having a disorder
called “anorexia nervosa ” with or without bulimia, is becoming
more common and it is a life threatening disorder when not acted
upon.

A proposed warning for use with Hoodia Gordonii as a dietary
supplement would be: – not to be used in childhood, pregnancy,
or lactating mothers – not to be used by individuals with eating
disorder – or those who are underweight or within a normal
weight range.

Some comments have already been made in the media about the
dangers of Hoodia Gordonii use in the extreme “dieter ” with an
eating disorder.

No serious or harmful side effects of Goodia Gordonii have been
reported; in fact it has been in the African food chain for many
years. SAN Bushmen of the Kalahi, one of the worlds most oldest
and most primitive tribes, had been eating Hoodia for thousand
of years to starve off hunger during long hunting trips.

Although there are no published long term studies on the safety
of Hoodia, it has have been used for thousand of years. But the
SAN Bushmen tribe of hunter-gatherers do not take pills for
blood pressures, diabetes, cholesterol, depression and other
diseases like we do, yet they have been able to gain their
energy during hunting times. They say that it can even cure
their hung-overs and upset stomach.

Hoodia simply has not reached a wide enough market yet or
undergone safety testing to know what the side effects, drug
interaction and safety concerns are, if there is any. But the
main dangers have been tested for and it is shown that it is not
dangerous.

To make sure, supplement companies put a standard recommended
dose on bottles. There are people though who self regulate and
take more than the stated amount. Some would say that they
should double the dosage to feel the effect. It really depends
on a person’s weight, diet, lifestyle and metabolism. The best
way to feel its effect is to follow the exact dosage and to be
patient.

Since Hoodia Gordonii is an organic with no synthetic or
artificial appetite control agents it is also a natural
substance that works on suppressing your appetite. It is not a
stimulant and has no side effect. Hoodia Gordonii acts as an
appetite suppressant and is said to have a feel-good aphrodisiac
quality felt mainly by men.

Of course there is always someone who would experience a
reaction even to the safest supplement, so, if you feel anything
different and uncomfortable, you must quickly relay this
information to your doctor or your dietary consultant.

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