Joseph A Varallo, MD, FACOG
303 Central Ave, Suite  #2
Egg Harbor Twp. NJ 08234    Email: joeyant@mac.com

Tel:  609-601-2800  Fax: 609-601-2282

www.josephvarallomd.com

We now have 1 1/2 years of clinical experience with the use of Desert Burn Hoodia in our weight management program.

Our database now has over 400 men and women that we have carefully monitored over time. The age range is from 18 to 70.

The response rate is definitely dose related. The purity of the Desert Burn product gives the best results (not cut with other ingredients). As with any other medication or supplements, there is a certain placebo effect, which in fact is a good thing.

Clinical Impressions:

• Drop out rate 15% (monetary constraints or failure to Respond) Satisfaction rate 85%.

• Ave. wt. Loss 2 lbs. /wk. Wt. Loss is even and gradual. Keep your eye on the goal rather then wk. To wk. fluctuations. Max. Wt. Loss to date 50 lbs. Do not weigh yourself every day. The first thing noticed is a decrease in pants or dress size. Waist size: Men < 40 in. Women < 35 in. Any size above this and you become an increase risk for cardiovascular disease. Cut the calories and lose the weight.

• 20% decrease in LDL and total cholesterol without the use of statins.. Some increase in HDL. Fish oil (omega-3 fatty acids) - no trans fats in the diet -exercise and Desert Burn is our natural approach to hyperlipidemia.

• Adult onset diabetics on oral hypoglycemic agents have noticed an improvement in their blood glucose and less need for medication. Their weight loss response appears to be more dramatic. It appears to be a metformin and Desert Burn synergistic response.

• The other leg of the dreadful Metabolic Syndrome -Hypertension, has shown a gradual response to the weight loss program, as expected.

• 60% of patients demonstrate an increase in energy and feeling of well being. Studies at Brown University Medical School, demonstrated that the compound (P57), extracted from the pure hoodia gordonii, increase the content of ATP by 50-150% in the hypothalamic neurons of the mid brain. This may send a signal for energy sensing which in turn causes an anorexic response in individuals.

• 20% increase in libido -add natural progesterone creme and my female patients noticed a 30% improvement. All related to that neuro-modulator, the hypothalamus. Very interesting clinical findings that need further study.

• Improvement in menstrual irregularities, especially in PCOS (polycystic ovaries syndrome). Very useful in the "estrogen dominant" individual with excessive body fat.Genestein (soy isoflavone), natural progesterone creme, and Desert Burn appears to be a great combination. This weight loss theory has been substantiated in other clinical studies.

• Liquid hoodia (Desert Juice) has recently shown some promise. There is a high rate of absorption and rapid onset of action. It appears that the 500mg liquid is having the same effect as the 750mg ZA. The dosage is adjusted according to the response. Most people require 3-4 caps. /day one hour prior to meals.

• I have seen no adverse side effects to date. It can be taken with most medications. I would be very careful with insulin dependent diabetics.

All weight loss programs should be monitored by a healthcare professional. It’s all about behavior modification and getting your body moving. Our greatest response has been with the “weight watchers" program and Desert Burn. Desert Burn Hoodia makes one pause before eating to ask the question, "Do I really need to eat that much?" Most patients tell me "I’m just not hungry."

These are exciting times in our fight against the Metabolic Syndrome and Desert Burn Hoodia is certainly going to help us wage this war.

Please understand that these are my opinions and clinical findings and not necessarily those of Desert Burn Industries. 

Joseph A Varallo, MD, FACOG

APRIL 2006

Topic:   Clinical Impressions of Dr. Joseph Varallo, M.D., F.A.C.O.G

For the past 11 months, I have followed and studied approximately 350 women from the ages of 18 to 70 that were using Desert Burn Hoodia ZA 750™ in their weight loss program. The following are "my clinical impressions."

• The drop out rate is 20%. This is due to either monetary constraints or failure to respond. The overall satisfaction rate is 80%.

•  The ave. wt. loss is 2 lbs./wk. Wt. loss is even and gradual. Keep your eye on the goal rather then wk. to wk. fluctuations. The maximum wt. loss to date has been 40 lbs. Do not weigh yourself every day. The first thing noticed  is a decrease in dress or pants size. We concentrate on waist size and certainly in all women our goal would be less then 35 in. Anything above this, you become an increase risk for cardiovascular disease. Cut the calories and lose the weight.

• 10% decrease in the in LDL,triglycerides,and total cholesterol without the use of statins.

•  Adult onset diabetics on oral hypoglycemic agents have noticed an improvement in their blood glucose and less need for medications. Their weight loss response appears to be more dramatic. I feel it is related to the metformin and Desert Burn combination.

•  The other leg of the dreadful Metabolic Syndrome -- Hypertension, has shown a gradual response to the wt. loss program, as expected.

•  50% of patients demonstrate increase in energy and feeling of well being. Studies at Brown University Medical School, demonstrated that the compound (P57),extracted from pure hoodia gordonii, increases the content of ATP by 50-150% in the hypothalamic neurons of the mid brain. This may send a signal for energy sensing which in turn causes an anorexic response in individuals.

• 15 % increase in Libido -- although this is not it's primary use. Add natural progesterone creme and you might get a 25 % increase. Too early to say and not enough patients. All related to that neuro- modulator, the hypothalamus.

• Improvement in menstrual irregularities especially in PCOS (polycystic ovaries syndrome). Very useful in the "estrogen dominate" individual with excessive body fat. Soy isoflavone (genestein)   natural progesterone and Desert Burn appears to be a great combination.

• Best dose is 750mg in divided dosages. All 1 hr prior to meals -- take two at you worse times. The dose is adjusted according to the response. 3-4 caps./day is the ave. dose.

• I have seen no adverse side effects  and can it be used with most medications. I would be very careful with insulin dependent diabetics.

All weight loss programs should be monitored by a health care professional.

The combination with south beach diet or weight watchers has had a very interesting and great response. Its all about behavior modification and getting your body moving. Desert Burn Hoodia makes one pause before meal time to ask the question "do I really need to eat that much?" Most patients tell me "I'm just not hungry."

These are exciting times in our fight against the metabolic syndrome and Desert Burn Hoodia is certainly going to help us wage this war.

Please understand that these our my opinions and clinical findings and not necessarily those of Desert Burn Industries.

Joseph A Varallo, MD, FACOG

303 Central Ave, Suite  #2
Egg Harbor Twp. NJ 08234   

Email: joeyant@mac.com

Tel:  609-601-2800  Fax: 609-601-2282

www.josephvarallomd.com

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:25:57 -0700

If you feel the following testimony is accurate feel free to place it
on your webpage.

  I started taking Hoodia Gordonii about two weeks ago.  For the first
couple of days I would get real hungry about fifteen minutes after I
took my dose.  This hunger would last about fifteen minutes and then it
would subside and I would feel like I didn't need to eat.

  Hoodia never makes me feel fuller when I take it.  It just keeps me
from feeling hungry.  When I do eat, I eat less because I feel fuller
faster.  I feel fine and natural and I have experienced absolutely no side
affects.  When I haven't eaten for a long time and finally do feel
hungry, it is a fading out feeling in my head.  My stomach no longer
experiences that knife piercing hunger.

  I eat breakfast around 06:30, lunch between 11:00 and 12:00 and
dinner around 19:30.  I take two pills about an hour before each meal.  The
not caring that much about food feeling lasts until it is time to eat the
next meal.  Sometimes when I stay up real late I start to get hungry around
23:00 and I can either resist the urge to eat, go to bed, or take two
more pills.  Sometimes, I do get a little hungry between meals if I have
eaten to little but I notice that if I drink about sixteen ounces of water, I
feel real full.  I feel fuller drinking this water with Hoodia than I
do if I drink this water without Hoodia.  I didn't expect this effect.  I
wouldlike someone to explain why this happens.  I thought that Hoodia
allowed someone to eat and drink less and that is why it is so effective when
crossing the desert.  It almost seems that water increases Hoodia's
effectiveness.

  Now, I eat to live instead of live to eat!  For the first time in my
life, I can mentally put food on the back burner even when barraged
with all those late night food commercials on TV.

  Sincerely;

  Joe Renzi

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Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:31:50 EDT

BRUCE, YOUR PRODUCT IS AWESOME. IT REALLY, REALLY WORKS. I AM RECOMMENDING A LOT OF PEOPLE TO ORDER DIRECT FROM YOUR WEB SITE. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME A HEAD START ON MY LONG JOURNEY TO LOSE WEIGHT. I HAVE TO LOSE ABOUT 80 POUNDS. THANKS AGAIN. JOAN

J. Maier

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17 JUNE 2005

 I can't believe the change Desert Burn has made in my life.

This product is simply a miracle and there are no side effects!!  Initially I was very skeptical because I had tried many diet pills and different appetite suppressants that made me nauseous, nervous, or sick. However with Hoodia I have lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks effortlessly, I also have more energy and my appetite has decreased dramatically. Most amazing is that Hoodia has also curbed my eternal cravings for sweets and chocolate which I have always loved.  

I have now become a distributor and I am looking forward to helping my family and friends feel better and lose weight without feeling hungry.

Karen Curley

Chicago IL

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:46:52 -0700

Hi. My name is Jim Cruce. I  have been on Desert Burn for about 2 weeks now. I must say that I was very pleased to see how great this product works. I noticed immediately that my appetite was gone. I wasn't hungry all the time. I am a big guy. Eating is something I love to do. For example: My breakfast was 3 sausage biscuits, 4 eggs with cheese, and 3 packages of instant grits. With Desert Burn , I now am lucky if I can eat 1 sausage biscuit, 1 egg with cheese and 1 package of instant grits. Most mornings my little Shish-Tzu dog finishes what I can't. I highly recommend this product to any one that wants to lose weight and not have to give up food that tastes good. I've lost about 10 pounds and look forward to loosing a lot more.

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:41:53 -0700

Subject: My cousin's wife Story
Bruce, this is one of the people I gave Desert Burn to lose weight.  She will send a picture soon. 
Thanks,
T

I am a nineteen year old stay home mother. Before I had my son it was
easy to keep the weight off. Right after I had my son I keep dieting and
trying different ways to loose weight everything I tried was not working. So a friend of mine told me about the Desert Burn with Hoodia in it. I was very interested in trying it so I started taking them. My eating habits have decreased alot and have lost ten pounds in the last two weeks since I began taking them.

Shelby Cleghorn

Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:48:33 -0800

Got my package three days ago. Started taking the caps immediately. After a day with no apparent drop in hunger, I thought for sure I had been ripped off. Kept taking them, though...  just in case. Last night, at the end of a long, stressful nightshift as a nurse, I stopped short and realized that I hadn't eaten all night. Not only that, but I had bypassed all of the sweet goodies laid out from a co-workers birthday party, without even thinking about taking a nibble! 

I am amazed. No jitters. No highs and lows. No light-headedness. Just a total disinterest in food. I made a very healthy vegetarian stir-fry this evening for dinner, with no urge to snack during prep, and I could not finish more than 1/2 of what was on my plate. Wow. This stuff is really awesome. I am sending one of my bottles of Hoodia to my Mom. She has GOT to try this stuff!

Maureen Howard, LPN
Anchorage, AK

Friday, April 08, 2005 11:47 AM

Hi,

I ordered your product in March of 2005 and I am almost done w/ my first bottle. I have been extremely overweight for about 4 years now and I was seeing no hope of becoming thin without some drastic measure. My Father had told me about the Hoodia plant back in November of 2004, I was glad I had somewhat listened to his story. Sure enough in March I started seeing the product available, after carefully researching all Hoodia products I choose Desert Burn. I was so glad I did. I was tipping the scale at a whopping 265 pounds. I am happy to report that I am now at 242 lbs. I took your directions on the bottle and altered them just a WEE bit. I only eat dinner, I drink about a 130 oz of water a day and I included to my daily ritual an hour to an hour and a half of workout. I walk at least 1 mile everyday and use weights and the cross-country machine. I have a hard time believing that losing weight could be this easy. I am so anxious to see the results after my second bottle. I am holding of on purchasing all those nice new clothes, because at this rate the SKY is the limit. Right now my goal is to reach 200. I will keep you updated.

Thanks so much,

Angie S.
Southgate, Mi.

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:10:47 -0600

Hey Bruce:

I weighed myself a few days ago and I am now down to 239.5 so that is almost 30 lbs. lighter from when I started on Jan. 1 of this year. My pants are getting too loose and I am almost ready to get into a size 38" waist down from 46" so that will be about 8" off the waist! It is nice here today and I am off work so I went for a long walk at a park nearby. It is 1 1\2 miles around the trail at this park and I walkedaround it and it felt so good that I did it again so I walked about 3 miles today. I am off tomorrow also so I will do it again.

Here are a few pictures of me now. The one with the pants are a size 44" I could not find the 46" ones, I think the wife might of done something with them because I can not find them anywhere. There are 2 that I had to buy and after looking at how big they were I decided that it was time to do something. I am attaching the pictures and also putting them in the body of this email. Let me know if you see them.

Well have a good one and I will write later.

Thanks,

Douglas W.

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0500

This product is wonderful. I have been using it for 2 days and already see a tremendous decrease in my appetite. I don't eat half of what I was and feel completely full. I also have increased energy. The only side effect is a dry cottony mouth. This is actually good because although I drink water throughout the day it makes me drink even more. I would recommend this product to anyone!

T.H. from Gates, NC

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:17:34 -0500

What a great company AND and a superb product!

When it was on 60 Minutes in November, I watched with amazement the story about 'hoodia' being grown in the deserts of Africa and the benefits for those hoping to curb their appetites. A while later a very progressive friend from California sent me a link to

http://www.desertburnindustries.com/

I was surprised to find that particular 60 Minutes clip. Not only that, I was able to order the Ultimate Appetite Suppressant on the planet!

I just started taking it and have already lost more than 6 pounds in the first week. More importantly, my appetite is significantly reduced just by following the simple directions on the bottle. For anyone who has 'tried them all' and found nothing to work [on reducing appetites with NO side effects] I want you to try DESERT BURN...it works for me!

Sincerely,

Robert L. Lapp

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:47:31 -0500

Here is my testimonial:

In 2004 I tried every product around - Trimspa (with hoodia), Glycolean, Xenadrine 40+, Hydroxicut, and many others, to absolutely no avail. The only thing that had slimmed down in 2004 was my wallet!

2004 was the last year of my Menopau! sal phase. My hormones flew the coop and in left in their place, an additional 30 pounds over period of about two years. I had blossomed from 135 to 165 lbs -- -- I was at my wits end and totally depressed...and still, ever HUNGRY!

Frankly, I about fell over when I went to the doctor in January and discovered I had actually crossed the line to obesity for the first time in my life. I weighed as much as I did when I had my first child! Adding insult to injury, a friend kindly emailed a holiday picture of me with my husband - I was shocked at what I saw...double chin, gut, flabby arms and all!

I hate to call myself desperate, but I was...

I had been reading about Desert Burn and the hoodia gordinii story. Read all about the 750mg needed and the warnings to avoid the lower mg.content - and am glad I paid attention.

After educating myself, I decided to try yet another product - your Desert Burn, ....and this time I hit paydirt! The shock of the doctors visit and the photo left me motivated - I am serious about getting fit. I posted that photo at my desk as a motivational tool, next to a photo of slimmer days, and ordered your product. Along with your product, I have started with baby steps....adding about 600 steps a day to my routine, drinking green tea and lots of water, eating a yogurt in the morning and something very light at lunch. Not very hungry, I have been able to cut back on my portions at dinner time - something I felt helpless to do before the hoodia product.

With the help of Desert Burn, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel, and it is exhilarating and bright!

Your records will show that I received my first order from you around February 2. It is March 4, and I have dropped at least 10 pounds already. It is a noticeable loss. I have 15-20 more to go, and am totally confident that I will be successful and a lot healthier as well. Desert Burn dramatically diminishes the desire to munch, and I feel much more satisfied with much less food.

Losing ten pounds so quickly has dramatically improved my self image, energy and enthusiasm. More importantly, I recognize that I have the ability to my life and my figure back!

Thank you Desert Burn - I will be a great and loyal customer forever!!!

Valerie Russell, Irving, Texas

Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:29:48 -0500

I am a Family Physician in Newmarket , Ontario , Canada just outside of Toronto . I have a private family practice and a cosmetic practice. I am very impressed with your product. I am 43 years old and have been practicing medicine since 1989. I graduated from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario in 1987.

Sincerely,

Dr. N.J. Kalyniuk

Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:02:24 -0500

Dear Sirs:

I have tried your Desert Burn Hoodia Gordonii and like it. As a massage therapist I would like to offer it to friends and clients, so I'd liketo be a distributor and order a case.

Thank you.

J.Z. L.M.T. Yulee , FL

Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:03:23 -0600

When I first read about your product, I was skeptical because it sounded like another fad diet that wouldn't work (sounded too good to be true). BUT, I thought I would give it a shot anyway, and it was my best decision of the year. My appetite is cut in half, and I don't get jittery or anything like with other diet pills. I have lost 7 lbs in the past month, and can't wait to get my next order. I have recommended your product to all of my friends. Thanks so much.

B. Webster

Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:29:55 -0500

OK, we tried your product and liked it better than the others. We'd like to start by getting 3 cases. How do we go about this?

Dr. Kalyniuk

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:16:00 -0700

Thanks so much for the free samples.  It seems to be a great product, I have tried it myself for the last week and it made me almost anorexic.  I will be calling to set up an account with you soon and ordering a case of it to start with. 

Dr. T.W

Pueblo , Colorado