Healthcare, Health Insurance, Vitamins, Nutrition

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.

Another claim they have is that because the hoodia enters your bloodstream directly, without having to work it’s way through your stomach, the patch will start having an effect much quicker compared to pills or liquid products.

On the surface, this makes total sense but unfortunately there is no scientific evidence to back this theory. There isn’t one scientific or clinical study to date on the effectiveness of hoodia patches. In fact, there are very little studies on the effectiveness of hoodia gordonii itself!

One trick people fall into is believing that a hoodia patch is effective because they have seen other patches. Yes, nicotine patches and birth control patches seem to work, so people assume that hoodia patches are the same. But there are a lot of differences between these products.

In order to buy a birth control patch you must be issued a prescription, and until recently you needed a prescription to be able to get a nicotine patch too. They have only just become available over the counter. However, you don’t need a prescription for a hoodia patch, and this is an important factor to remember.

Any product that requires a prescription or once did has had to undergo rigorous testing and be subjected to governmental regulations before it can be marketed to the public as being effective. None of the hoodia patches sold today require a prescription. Doesn’t that tell you something?

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.

While I firmly believe that hoodia patches are worthless, I don’t want to leave you with the impression that every hoodia capsule on the market is effective. In fact, according to a recent study a majority of the hoodia supplements on the market today are fake so they’re as worthless as the patch. That same study concluded that only a handful of hoodia diet pills contain authentic hoodia gordonii.

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.