Maca, Wonder Herb For Fertility…

Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is a root-like vegetable shaped like a turnip. It grows at 12,000 feet above sea level 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, energy, vitality, and sexual virility.

How was this natural fertility enhancer discovered?

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

If that was not bad enough, their horses, dogs and mules stopped reproducing. They noticed, however, that the local people, llamas and other animals reproduced well and had no trouble with their libido.

The reason was that the local people and their animals ate a root that grew only in the high mountains. The people dried it, ground it to a powder, cooked and ate it regularly.

The Spaniards began to eat and feed this maca to their livestock and soon discovered what the Indians had already known for ages.
Libido came back to the men dramatically; their animals became energetic, the females conceived with ease and carried to full term. And they all lived happily ever after…

How does Maca work?

MACA is great for both women and men!

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 healthy pregnancy.

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

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Who should use Maca?

Maca would really be good for anyone preparing or trying to become pregnant. It is a healthy food which can be taken daily. It can specially 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.

How do you use Maca?

Maca is available in powder, capsule, pills or liquid forms. I 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.

Dosage: General suggested usage is 2000-3000 mg a day. To obtain desired results, maca needs to be taken regularly. There have been no side effects found from taking maca.

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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.

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