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submitted: Sep 29th 2008 | by: ReaganMiers | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 497 | |

Read any literature or visit any website that sells hoodia patches and you'll see their biggest claim is that their products work more effectively than capsules. The idea behind the patch is that you'll get a slow release of hoodia gordonii throughout the day as it passes through your skin and into your bloodstream.

Companies selling the hoodia patch will claim that since it bypasses your stomach and enters the bloodstream through the skin, it will suppress your appetite quicker and more effectively than capsules or liquids.

Unfortunately while these claims sound genuine enough, there is actually very little evidence to back them up. In fact, there are very few studies on how effective hoodia gordonii is to start with, never mind any studies into hoodia patches.

The companies who sell hoodia patches often compare them to other patches with a proven track record, such as nicotine patches and birth control patches. People know these products work, so they presume that a hoodia patch will work just as well. Don't be fooled! There are many differences in these products.

Both nicotine patches and birth control patches required the person to have a prescription. This is still the case for birth control patches, however, nicotine patches have just become available over the counter without a prescription. That being the case, it is important to bear in mind that you have never needed a prescription for a hoodia patch.

Before a product that required a prescription can go on sale to the public it must go through a lot of stringent testing to ensure that it is safe and effective. None of the hoodia patches available on the market today have ever required a prescription and so have never gone through this testing.

If you don't buy the clinical studies argument, what about the commonsense argument? Let me explain. Hoodia gordonii is a cactus-like plant grown in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. It has been used for centuries by the San tribe to stave off hunger during long hunting trips.

They cut off about 2-3 inches of the plant, peel it, and then eat it. This small piece of the plant suppresses their appetite for hours. What more closely resembles eating the actual plant - swallowing a pill that contains the powder of the ground up plant, or sticking a patch on your skin? I think you would agree that a pill would be more effective than a patch.

It is the case that I believe that all hoodia patches are a useless waste of money, however I'm not trying to say that all of the hoodia diet pills are excellent. Far from it, it's actually the case that the majority of hoodia products on the market today are actually fakes, which contain little to no actual hoodia gordonii at all.

While there are no hoodia patches that work, in my opinion, I would highly recommend that you spend your money on the established and reliable hoodia gordonii diet pills which have been proven to work effectively.

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