Are you trying to shed stubborn pounds but unable to lose weight with diet and exercise alone? Several weight loss supplements on the market today claim they will help you slim down, but quite a bit of evidence proves that Hoodia Gordonii will deliver you results.

Hoodia Gordonii is an exotic plant found in South Africa and Namibia. It is a leafy succulent plant with foul smelling flowers that are often compared in odor to rotten meat. Its blooms are pollinated mostly by flies.

South African tribes have long used the plant for its medicinal purposes. While it is sometimes used to treat infections and digestive ailments, it is mainly ingested to suppress appetite during long hunting trips made by tribesmen across the Kalahari Desert.

Once weight loss supplement companies found out about the appetite suppressing power of the Hoodia Gordonii plant, the demand for the ingredient skyrocketed. The South African government realized the scientific and economic potential of the plant. A group called the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research isolated the active compound in the plant, called P57, and patented it in 1996.