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Although internet marketers and EBay merchants love to use the tag line "Cheap Hoodia", the estimated price for one ounce of Hoodia Gordonii is about $40. This begs the question "How can there be cheap Hoodia?" The one legitimate way to get cheap Hoodia is to buy large quantities and get a discount for buying so much. More commonly, people get cheap Hoodia by not buying Hoodia at all but some capsule filled with god-knows-what. Other times they are buying a tiny amount of the plant in multiple capsules which makes it seem like they have gotten a lot of cheap hoodia but in reality they have too small an amount to have an effect on them. Any serving which is less than 400mg of pure extract is not enough to efficiently suppress appetite. Though it may be cheap Hoodia in price it is worthless Hoodia for dieting purposes.

Weight loss drugs actually go back further than you might think. Of course most of us would believe that the first weight loss drugs (amphetamines) were developed in the fifties because these were the first to gain popularity. Actually the first weight loss drugs were developed in the thirties and were not appetite suppressants, they were "thermogenic weight loss drugs". This means that they increased body temperature so that food was spent as heat energy rather than stored as fat. These weight loss drugs worked to a degree (no pun intended) but were also quite dangerous. People taking this weight loss drug, DNP as it was called, sometimes developed fatally high fevers. Other times the extreme body heat caused injuries like blindness. The next development in weight loss drugs was amphetamines that I was speaking about earlier. This was a completely different idea of course, helping people lose weight by suppressing appetite. Unfortunately these weight loss drugs have their share of negative side effects, and occasionally can cause death by overdose. The newest weight loss drug isn't actually a drug at all, but an all natural supplement that can suppress appetite with no risks or side effects. If you haven't guessed it's [s]hoodia[s], the newest and greatest innovation in weight loss drugs.

Cheap Hoodia, while it is something we would all like to find, is rarely real or effective Hoodia. You should first of all realize that the demand for hoodia is absolutely huge right now but the supply is extremely limited; the fact is that there is not nearly enough of the plant in the entire world to fill all of the orders being placed for it. For this reason it is a rather expensive product, and companies offering cheap Hoodia are using one or more of a couple tricks to do this. First of all, the cheap Hoodia may not be Hoodia Gordonii, but another variation of the plant. Only Hoodia Gordonii has the appetite suppressing effects, so the cheap Hoodia is overpriced no matter how much they are charging for it. The other way to offer cheap Hoodia to the masses is to use a very tiny amount of Hoodia and mix it in with either a bunch of filler or another appetite suppressant. This is not what most people pay for or expect to get, because these supplements are not effective and/or they will have side effects; and the fact that pure Hoodia Gordonii has no side effects is one of the best things about it. Though it may cost you a bit more, ordering pure Hoodia Gordonii extract is worth the extra money.

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