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Peruvian Maca
Root
(Lepidium
meyenii)
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For centuries, the Maca root has grown wild in the Peruvian
Andes just below the glacial icecap. The only area where this
particular species of maca is found is a region of extreme
weather conditions such as freezing, high winds, and intensive
sunlight.
No other food
plant exists in the world which will grow at so high an
altitude and survive.
Native shepherds
soon learned that as they grazed their herds in higher
elevations, where Maca grows naturally, the herds became
healthier, with more stamina and became much more sexually
active. Soon, the Andean Herd People included Maca in their
diets, and found Maca could help promote increased energy and
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The rich soil located at these high
plateaus of Peru where it is very cold and oxygen poor may
account for the high levels of trace minerals found in maca
root. Some Peruvian Indians of today still grow it in the same
traditional way without pesticides or
chemicals.
The healing
qualities of maca have helped the local native population
thrive in this oxygen-poor plateau where they live. Maca root
contains significant amounts of amino acids, complex
carbohydrates, vitamins B1, B2, B12, C and E and minerals,
including calcium, phosphorus, zinc, magnesium and iron.
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This herb has been traditionally used as an aphrodisiac
for both men and women, to increase energy, vitality, stamina
and endurance in athletes, promote mental clarity, for
fertility and to increase male seminal fluid volume, sperm
count and sperm motility, for treating male impotence and
erectile dysfunction, and for female
menstrual irregularities and hormone imbalances, including
menopause and perimenopause. Women with
menstrual irregularities have experienced greater consistency,
while women with hot flashes, mood swings and most associated
perimenopause and menopause symptoms have diminished
dramatically. Due to the number
of steroidal glycosides present in Maca root it is gaining
popularity among weight lifters and body builders as a natural
alternative to anabolic steroids.
The popularity of maca worldwide is growing at an
enormous rate.. In August of 2001, results of the first major
clinical trial conducted on the effects of maca consumption
were released. The maca used in the study was a very
concentrated, powerful version created through a process
called gelatinization .
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Phase I data showed that MacaSource® gelatinized
maca:
- has a reducing effect on diastolic
arterial pressure (lowered blood
pressure)
- has an anti-anemic effect (balanced blood
iron levels)
- has an important effect as energizer,
possibly due to it's effect of causing an increase in the
serum levels of human growth hormone (HGH)
- effects blood sugar energy reserves
(hemoglucose) acting over body fat (promotes the use of
glucose in the bloodstream for energy
rather than being processed into fat
storage)
- gelatinized maca was found to produce a "general
sense of well-being"
- DHEA level increases significantly in a
majority of the males treated with gelatinized
maca
- decreases anxiety within the first two weeks
of treatment
- treatment with gelatinized maca decreases
stress
- gelatinized maca improves the level of
sexual desire (libido) by an average of
180%
- increases seminal volume, count of mobile
spermatozoids and mobility of spermatozoids
(average sperm count increase in the maca group vs. the
placebo control group was 200%)
- gelatinized maca increases adrenal androgens
(adrenalin)
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THE HISTORY OF MACA
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