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Obesity And Hoodia
Imagine this: an organic pill that kills the
appetite and attacks obesity.
It has no known side-effects, and contains a molecule that fools your brain into
believing you are full.
Deep inside the African Kalahari desert, grows an ugly cactus-like plant called
the Hoodia. It thrives in extremely high temperatures, and takes years to
mature.
The San Bushmen of the Kalahari, one of the world's oldest and most primitive
tribes, had been eating the Hoodia for thousands of years, to stave off hunger
during long hunting trips.
When South African scientists were routinely testing it, they discovered the
plant contained a previously unknown molecule, which has since been christened P
57.
Phytopharm's Dr Richard Dixey explained how
P.57 actually works:
"There is a part of your brain, the hypothalamus. Within that mid-brain there
are nerve cells that sense glucose sugar.
"When you eat, blood sugar goes up because of the food, these cells start firing
and now you are full.
"What the Hoodia seems to contain is a molecule that is about 10,000 times as
active as glucose.
"It goes to the mid-brain and actually makes those nerve cells fire as if you
were full. But you have not eaten. Nor do you want to."
Clinical trials
Dixey organized the first animal trials for Hoodia. Rats, a species that will
eat literally anything, stopped eating completely.
When the first human clinical trial was conducted, a morbidly obese group of
people were placed in a "phase 1 unit", a place as close to prison as it gets.
All the volunteers could do all day was read papers, watch television, and eat.
Half were given Hoodia, half placebo. Fifteen days later, the Hoodia group had
reduced their calorie intake by 1000 a day.
It was a stunning success.
(source: Tom Mangold-BBC Correspondent)
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