Hoodia Gordonii ? The Scientific Intervention

The first scientific study of hoodia was really sparked by chance, as is often the case in scientific ?discoveries?. What started it all was not, in fact, an exclusive study into the hoodia gordonii, a succulent that looks like a cactus. South Africa?s national laboratory was conducting a much broader study. It was only because the San tribesman were known to eat hoodia gordonii that it was included in a study of indigenous foods.
It is not surprising that the interest of the national laboratory was aroused, and they started to focus seriously on the hoodia gordonii?s properties. It was tested on animals by including it in their food. The animals ate it, and then lost weight. It was then a question of isolating the ingredient that was behind this phenomenon. Or w View the rest of this article