Maca, Wonder Herb For Fertility…

Andes Mountains - where maca is grownMaca (Lepidium meyenii) is a root-like vegetable shaped like a turnip that grows at 12,000 feet and is only found in the high Andes of Peru and Ecuador.

For more than two millennia, native Peruvians have used maca root as food and medicine, to promote fertility, endurance, improve energy, vitality, and sexual virility.

How was this natural fertility enhancer discovered?

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As the story goes Spaniards conquered the area of the Andes mountains and soon after living there they to began to lose there sex drive. The women and men suffer from sterility and total lack of libido at that altitude. So they were not able to conceive or when they did carry those pregnancies to term.

If that was not bad enough their horses, dogs and mules
stopped reproducing. Well they finally began to notice that the local’s llamas and other animals all reproduced and had no trouble with libido.

The difference was that the locals ate a root that only grew in the high mountains. There animals also would dig it up and eat it, the people would cook with it, dry it ,
mash it up into a powder and eat it all the time.

The Spaniards began to feed this maca to there livestock and themselves and soon discovered the Indians were right.
Libido came back to the men dramatically, there animals were frisky and the females became pregnant and carried to term. And they all lived happily ever after…

How does Maca work?

Maca is great for both men and women!

MACA is great for both women and men!

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Maca is a nourishing food for the endocrine system, aiding both the pituitary, adrenal, and thyroid glands (all involved in hormonal balance.) Maca has the ability to affect key hormones in both women and men without containing hormones itself.

Maca helps to stimulate and nourish the pituitary gland, acting as a tonic for the hormone system. When the pituitary gland functions optimally, the entire endocrine system becomes balanced, because the pituitary gland controls the hormone output of the other three glands.

In women maca works by controlling estrogen in the body. Estrogen levels that are high or low at the wrong time can keep a woman from becoming pregnant or keep her from carrying to term. Excess estrogen levels also cause progesterone levels to become too low. Taking maca may help to increase the progesterone levels which are essential to carrying a healhty pregnancy.

Estrogen in men produces erectile dysfunction, low/lack libido, low sperm count, and lowered production of seminal fluid. Men who use maca have been shown to have an increase in libido and healthy sperm.

Maca may help to

  • Balance hormonal levels in women.
  • Increase libido in both men and women.
  • Increase egg health.
  • Increase seminal volume, sperm count per ejaculation, and sperm motility.

    • Who should use Maca?

    Maca would really be good for anyone preparing or trying to become pregnant. It is a food, so it is healthy to take daily. But it can specificly help women who are experiencing:

    -Poor egg health
    -Endometriosis
    -PCOS
    -Recurrent miscarriages
    -Preparing for IVF
    -Infertility due to stress
    -In addition, hormonal stability sharpens the mind and generates a sense of well-being.

    “I do have to tell you I have had two in-vitros. During the first in-vitro the quality of my eggs was average. At the start of my second in-vitro I began taking one tablespoon of maca powder on a daily basis without of course telling my MD (I stopped when I found out I was pregnant). However, what my MD does have in writing is the blood tests results as well as the results on the quality of my eggs.

    During the second in-vitro the quality of my eggs was much better and as I said before, I did get pregnant. Unfortunately, I miscarried after five weeks (empty sac pregnancy). A friend recently had her second in-vitro. She too took lots of maca… and she had the same improvement in the quality of her eggs…”

    How do you use Maca?

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    Maca comes in powder, capsule, tincture or pills. I personally love to use the powder of the root in my fertility smoothies and take the capsules when I do not have a smoothie so I can make sure I am getting maca in my diet daily.

    When you are purchasing maca, make sure it is organically grown. SOme of the growing areas in the Andes are affected by contaminated water from mines, so if you buy non-organic maca, you may end up with mercury or lead contamination. And also make sure your MACA root is not diluted with fillers or aditives.

    Our MACA is 100% organic and pure.

    Dosage: Recommended dosage is 2000-3000 mg a day. To obtain desired results maca needs to be taken regularly.

    There are no side effects from taking maca, remember it is a food. If you are taking our capsules you will want to take 3 - 6 capsules a day. With our powder start with 1/2 t. of powder and work up to 1 T.

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    Studies on Maca

    Study #1: Effects of Maca on the Endocrine Glands

    Dr. Gloria Chacon isolated four alkaloids from the maca root and carried out animal studies with male and female rats given either powdered maca root or alkaloids isolated from the roots. In comparison with the animal control groups, those receiving either root powder or alkaloids showed multiple egg follicle maturation in females and, in males, significantly higher sperm production and motility rates than control groups. Dr. Chacon established that it was the alkaloids in the maca root, not its plant hormones, that produced fertility effects on the ovaries and testes of the rats. These effects are measurable within 72 hours of dosing the animals,’ she offered in a recent telephone interview from Lima, Peru.

    Through the experiments, she deduced that the alkaloids were acting on the hypothalamus-pituitary gland, which explains why both male and female rats were afflicted in a gender-appropriate manner. This also explains why the effects in humans are not limited to ovaries and testes, but also act on the adrenals, giving a feeling of greater energy and vitality, and on the pancreas and thyroid as well.

    Implications of Dr. Chacon’s discovery of the pituitary stimulating effects of maca are enormous. What it appears to mean is that hormone replacement therapy, even the natural varieties, will no longer be the gold standard for optimising a holistic point of view.

    -(© Dr. Gloria Chacon, Lima- Peru)

    Study #2: Maca study reveals increase in sperm production and libido
    Researchers at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Lima, Peru, performed a 12-week double blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial in which active treatment with different doses of maca was compared with placebo.

    Men aged 21-56 years received 3 g of maca. An improvement in sexual desire was observed with maca at 8 weeks of treatment. Serum testosterone and estradiol levels were not different in men treated with maca than in those treated with placebo.

    Study #3: Another Maca study reveals increase in sperm production and libido
    Another study was designed to determine the benefit of a 4-month oral treatment with tablets of maca on seminal analysis in adult normal men aged 24-44 years old.

    Nine men received tablets of maca (1500 or 3000 mg/day) for 4 months. Serum luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, prolactin, testosterone and estradiol levels were measured before and after treatment.

    Treatment with maca resulted in increased seminal volume, sperm count per ejaculation, and sperm motility. Serum hormone levels were not altered.