Hoodia Pills, Tabs, Capsules, Slimming Tea
Consumer alert: con artists sell counterfeit hoodia gordonii as bogus weight loss pills
When there's money to be made fooling people, you can bet someone will step up to the plate and start selling counterfeit hoodia at a premium. One hoodia source, I've been told, is selling ground up tree bark as hoodia powder. Another is selling plants that aren't even the right species!
If you're on the internet, searching for hoodia, it's almost impossible to know you're buying the real deal. There are simply far too many con artists on the loose, and they know that people are desperate for hoodia. Everybody wants to lose weight, right?
But beware! If I were you, I wouldn't buy from just anybody. It's hard to know who to trust in this emerging, high-profit business. Anybody can throw powder into a capsule and claim it's hoodia, but can they prove it?
Hoodia shortage?
If you want some hoodia, by the way, you'd better get it now. If you're reading this report, that means the word about hoodia is probably spreading. That means a whole lot of people are going to be ordering hoodia, and I expect short-term supplies to be hammered hard.
The long term picture isn't much better for the supply of hoodia. It takes six years to grow adult hoodia plants from seed, so there's a six-year gap between demand for the product and the supply that manufacturers can provide.
Even now, there are only a few hundred acres of hoodia growing on commercial farms, and the plant is highly susceptible to being wiped out by rather mysterious conditions. One grower told me, "We lose acre after acre of hoodia for no apparent reason, and we still don't know what's causing it."
To make matters even more challenging, Hoodia grown in South Africa under the San tribe's influence is required to be grown under organic conditions. That means they can't use pesticides. Entire crops have been known to vanish virtually overnight thanks to the ravages of various insects.
All this means that if hoodia really catches on with the public -- and I think it will -- the supply will be even tighter for many years. Prices are going to go up, and eventually, only the wealthy may be able to afford the pills necessary to lose weight.
How to know who to trust
Since the news documentary was shown on US television last November, we have noticed a dramatic increase in new hoodia sellers.
This was only to be expected. The worrying thing we've noticed, is the large number of new hoodia manufacturers that have suddenly sprung up.
Being so difficult to grow and cultivate, genuine, pure hoodia extract is only available to a few select manufacturers, who in turn, pay large royalties to the San people.
This is why genuine hoodia is so expensive to buy.
Where these new manufacturers are getting their, so called, hoodia from, is to be honest...beyond us.