Hoodia's Effect On Your Metabolism Rate

Before you take your Hoodia, your body becomes used to a certain level of calories that you take on a daily basis. These calories are basically made up of the calories in the food you take, less the calories your body burns throughout the day, whether it is from running its natural processes, or from any sort of exercise you do.


When you suddenly decrease the amount of calories you consume, your body notes it. Initially it may not react, thinking it is just a one-off. That's why you will start to lose weight in the first few weeks.


But your body is smart. It starts to adapt to the circumstances it faces. Because the circumstances for its survival have changed, it starts to change with it. When your body finds itself deprived of nutrients for an extended period of time, it slows down the burning of the nutrients and calories that it does have. It does this to give yourself the greatest chance of survival, until your next meal.



The rate at which your body burns calories is commonly called your metabolism rate. The slower your metabolism rate, the slower your body burns the stored calories you have (including fat). As your metabolism rate decreases, your body utilizes less of the calories you do take in, and stores more of it as fat.



So the lower your metabolism, the more calories you will store(including more fat cells), and the fewer calories you'll burn off, no matter what activity you do.



Hoodia causes you to feel full, and so, you will most probably decrease the amount of calories you eat on a daily basis.