Hoodia has been changing lives left and right, but what do we really know about where it comes from? All real Hoodia products are created from the extract that comes from the Hoodia Gordonii plant, which is able to grow in only one place – the Kalahari Desert. The Kalahari desert is a very unusual desert that resides in southern Africa. Scientists do not consider it to be a true desert, for the simple fact that it does get around 3 to 7 inches of rain a year. Because of this there are animals and plants that are able to grow in the desert that can not grow anywhere else in the world.

The San Bushmen have been living in the Kalahari desert for over 20,000 years. They lived off of the land, gathering the food that was around them, such as nuts and berries, and hunting wild game to get their meat. They used the Hoodia Gordonii plant to be able to stave off hunger whenever they had to go on a long hunting journey. The Kalahari Desert is a place like no other in the world, with amazing people, animals, and plants like Hoodia Gordonii.

It was an amazing day when the scientists who traveled to South Africa to study the San Bushmen discovered the Hoodia Gordonii plant. This spiny plant that resembles a cactus had been used by their tribe for centuries as a way to stave off hunger and thirst when they had to travel long distances, especially during hunting. They took pieces of the plant back to their labs and did some testing to discover the P57 molecule.

This molecule, which has so far been discovered to come only from the Hoodia Gordonii plant, tricks our body into believing that it is full. It speaks to the hypothalamus, which is the part of the brain that says if you need to eat or not, and makes it believe that you are full. All of the studies on Hoodia have proven that it works as well as the San Bushmen said it does, stopping hunger from occurring in almost all cases and helping people to achieve dramatic weight loss, even those who have been referred to a surgeon for weight loss surgery. Hoodia is not magic, but is science, and fortunately for the world, it was discovered in the heart of the South African desert.