3 Reasons to Not Use the Hoodia Diet Patch
3 Big Reasons to Not Use the Hoodia Diet Patch
You might disagree, but hear me out on this....
The so called hoodia diet patch is one product to avoid if you
want to try hoodia, the amazing weight loss plant that is
garnering a great deal of media attention for its ability to
reduce the amount you eat and help you lose weight.
Why do we not like the hoodia patch?
For three simple reasons:
1. Most of the hoodia diet patch products we've seen claim their
product will work more effectively than hoodia pills or capsules
because it will enter your bloodstream quicker, bypassing your
stomach and, therefore, give you faster and better results.
The hoodia patch is supposed to work by placing it directly on
your skin and then the hoodia will be time-released from it,
passing through your skin and into your bloodstream.
The end result is that you'll supposedly be less hungry
throughout the day and lose weight as you consume less calories.
This is a great theory....but a speculative theory is all it is.
There is no proof whatsoever that the hoodia diet patch works,
let alone works better than hoodia pills and capsules despite
what some of these patch sellers try to claim.
We have yet to find one real, scientific, clinical study showing
the hoodia patch works better than other hoodia products on the
market.
It's rather unethical to suggest in an underlying way -- as some
of these sellers try to do -- that the hoodia patch is going to
be as effective as similar patches on the market, such as the
famous nicotine patch or birth control patch.
What's important to know is that these other patches are
prescription based (although nicotine patches can now by
purchased OTC, but they started off prescription).
What this means is that they had to undergo rigorous scientific,
clinical studies before they could hit the market and claim they
are effective.
To the contrary, no hoodia patch on the market is prescription
based, and none had to undergo efficacy studies....so there is
just no way they can claim that they work better than hoodia
pills and capsules.
2. The Sans Bushmen, the tribe in South Africa that has been
using hoodia for thousands of years and first discovered its
properties, do not use the hoodia diet patch. This may sound
like I'm trying to be cute or sarcastic, but I'm actually making
a very important point.
If you think about it, they cut off a piece of the plant, skin
it, and eat the core to derive its appetite suppressing benefits.
Now, ask yourself the simple question: what would be more closer
to what the Sans Bushmen do: stick a patch on the body allegedly
transferring the hoodia benefits or swallow a capsule that is
made up of whole hoodia plant that has been ground up and put
into a pill? Exactly.
3. Phytopharm, the company that owns the patent rights to the
active ingredient in hoodia gordonii, called P57 conducted a
clinical double-blind, placebo-controlled study using the active
ingredient (P57) that is a hoodia gordonii extract -- NOT some
new fangled hoodia patch.
In fact, if you look at Phytopharm's website, you will see the
statement: "Only Phytopharm's patented Hoodia gordonii product
is botanically verified to contain pure Hoodia gordonii and has
quantified levels of the chemical constituents that produce the
anti-obesity effects."
Trust us, they would not be saying that if it weren't true since
they would face serious legal consequences as an established
pharmaceutical company.
So, what does that fact tell you? It tells you no seller of
hoodia diet patch can even say their product conclusively works
for weight loss, much less claim it works better than hoodia
capsules or pills!
Now don't get me wrong...I'm not saying every hoodia pill or
capsule product on the market is going to be good either. On the
contrary, many of the products floating around have been found
to be fraudulent -- that is, not even contain any real hoodia
gordonii in it.
But, if given the choice to use a hoodia capsule made with
genuine South African hoodia gordonii or a hoodia patch, we'd
much rather opt for the capsules.
Perhaps there will come a day in the future where there will be
a hoodia diet patch proven to work effectively in real, clinical
studies...but until that day, we'll pass on the patch.