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Maca Root (Powder)
What Is Maca Root?
Maca (Lepidium Meyenii) is a dehydrated vegetable plant which produces a radish-like root in a multitude of colors, ranging from white to black and purple. The area where the Macafem root grows is probably one of the most difficult places in the world to grow vegetables, with an extremely inhospitable soil and climate, but Maca root has somehow thrived where nothing else could.
Maca Root's Begining's
While maca thrives in the most rugged terrain above 12,000 feet, political uprisings and a change in the popular diet pushed maca plants close to extinction by the late 1970's. Careful seed harvesting and the resourcefulness of dedicated native people have protected it from extinction. Families in the vicinity of Lake Junin (Condor, Maqque, Vicuna and more), and generations before, are owed insurmountable debt for their dedication to the preservation of this astounding, health giving crop.
Today, there is a huge upswing in maca farming in the highlands of Peru, with more than 1,000 acres planted annually. Once again, maca is eaten up to 3 times a day by Peruvians, from professional athletes to the elderly, to give them energy, increase emotional stability, highten sexual ability, and build immune function.
Maca Powder Balances Female Hormones:
“What makes Maca Powder so effective is that rather than introducing hormones from outside the body, Maca Powder encourages the ovaries and other glands to produce the needed hormones naturally. Maca Powder regulates the organs of internal secretion, such as the pituitary, and the adrenal glands. There are many female users of this amazing herbal supplement whose premenopausal and postmenopausal symptoms are alleviated by taking Maca Powder.
The Maca Root Cultivation Grounds:
The Maca Root is grown at altitudes as high as 12,000 - 14,500 feet above sea level. The volcanically enriched soils, the unpolluted atmosphere, and the extremely cold and oxygen-poor climate may be the main reasons for Macafem's extraordinary properties.
In fact, no other plant in the world can grow at such high altitudes and in such extreme weather. Freezing cold, intense sunlight and strong winds are just some of the conditions in which Maca Root grows. This herb can survive because it has the ability to absorb all surrounding nutrients.
This is why the Maca Root contains so many minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, etc. The conditions in which it grows are not suitable for growing any vegetation, but the Maca root has the reputation of being the strongest and highest-growing food plant in the world.
The Maca Root And Hormonal Balance:
The menstrual cycle is an intricate balance between body, mind and emotions. Governed by hormones and the moon - your menstrual cycle can either be a source of great health ( helping you balance body and emotions and acting as a compass for your life) or a source of major discomfort and distress.
Some of the symptoms of distress and hormonal imbalance include:
These irregularities can also contribute to other fertility problems when you want to conceive, and can affect your ability to maintain a healthy pregnancy. If your hormones are imbalanced then all these areas of fertility can be affected.
Many of these problems are caused by a lack in our diet, lack of health, too much stress and too little understanding of the way the female body works.
Medically these irregularities are otfen treated by introducing (often artificial) hormones into the delicate female system. These hormones regulate your menstrual cycle by overriding your bodies natural rhythm.
For example - when you take the Pill, these artificial hormones effectively trick your body into thinking it is already pregnant. (So if you are on the pill for 2 or 5 or 10 years - your body thinks it is pregnant all that time.) So at mid-cycle when you would normally ovulate, nothing happens. No egg is released from your ovaries and pregnancy cannot occur. The glands that normally run your menstrual cycle are temporarily shut down while you are on the Pill - they do not function in the same way as they would naturally and you do not have a normal natural menstrual cycle. You still have a period of sorts - the correct term is "hormone withdrawal bleed" - because when the input of artificial hormones stops (that is, when you take the sugar pills) the uterine lining is shed. This lining is thinner than normal, resulting in lighter bleeding.
As stated earlier the menstrual cycle isn't just about physical responses. The cycle is also a emotional and often spiritual experince if we allow it to be so. There are many natural products and superfoods that can nutritionally support and assist your body to function optimally. Maca Powder is one.
Some women choose to eat Maca Powder as an alternative to taking artificial hormones. What makes Maca so effective is that rather than introducing hormones from outside (whether chemical or natural) Maca nutritionally supports the glands in the body to optimal function according to the individuals unique requirements.
By taking Maca Powder your body will adjust its hormones levels naturally.
In Peru and the USA, Maca is considered beneficial for:
Low Libido - Maca's aphrodisiac qualities increase sex drive and may relieve other low libido effects like decreased vaginal lubrication.
General menstrual irregularity - it is well known that menstrual irregularity, like short and long cycles, too little or too much bleeding, spotting, pain etc. can stem from poor nutritional absorption ie, Vit B6, magnesium, EFA's, which in turn upsets the body's delicate hormonal system. As Maca is a whole food organically grown it retains maximum nutritional value, unlike many of the foods on the supermarket or green grocers shelf.
Healthy Fertility - Pregnancy demands extra nutrients for a healthy baby. Unfortunately, many of today's women are overworked, stressed and/or have a long history of taking the Birth Control Pill find that their fertility is compromised. Using Maca Powder can be an affordable, excellent nutritional addition to every woman's diet.
Peruvian women start to take maca at the age of three, then gradually include it as a staple part of their diet. They are fertile well into later life... "Laboratory studies of rats have found that they had improved fertility after eating maca - females increased egg follicle development and males have increased their sperm count. In Peru maca is given to livestock to improve fertility a well as strength." From Good Medicine Magazine Australia
How long does it take to work?
Maca's nutrients affects the body at a cellular level and gives it a chance to re-adjust. It is important to take enough, to take it regularly, and to be patient allowing your body to re-vitalise at its own rate. Some people notice Maca's beneficial effects within two weeks, others might take a little longer, perhaps up to 3 months.
If you haven't tried Maca then you need to consider your personal tastes. Maca does have a nutty kind of flavour - some poeple like the taste and others prefer to take it in capsule form. If you are used to taking supplements - herbs and the like, then the powder is for you. If you are sensitive to the way things taste then you are probably better off with the VegeCapsules.
The beauty of Maca is that it is a whole food - unadulterated and pure just as nature intended food to be. With this in mind - when you buy your Maca - use these guidelines below to ensure you are getting the best quality product available
Conclusion:
Maca Powder Does Work!
What it does is simple: The Maca powder nutrients stimulate the endocrine system (in charge of regulating hormones) to keep the body's hormones balanced in a safe and natural way. But to truly understand how it works, let’s first see how your endocrine system functions, and then how Maca powder stimulates it in a healthy way.
Hormones and Endocrine System
Hormones are chemical messengers that course through the bloodstream and regulate the metabolism. All the body's processes are basically “ordered” and “commanded” by hormones. At the same time, the endocrine system controls and regulates hormonal levels and keeps them in a healthy balance according to what the body needs.
However, the endocrine system may begin to show deficiencies as a result of environmental influences, the natural process of aging, or from other causes.
The entire metabolism is affected with any sudden fluctuation in hormone levels. The whole body goes off balance, triggering the most common health problems for women, such as PMS, decreased libido, hot flashes, infertility, mood swings, depression, and menopause symptoms. This is why it is so important to keep hormonal levels in balance.
Maca Powder, The Natural Hormonal Balancer
Rather than taking risky drugs to supply hormones in your body, Maca Powder acts naturally, nourishing your glands inducing proper production of your own estrogen, progesterone and testosterone hormones. But this occurs naturally, not with time-bomb drugs, which throw the entire body into a dangerous state of confusion.
How Maca Powder Improves the Endocrine System
As a natural product, The nutrients in Maca powder help to improve your endocrine system by inducing the optimal functioning of the pituitary and endocrine glands, thus nourishing and stimulating your own hormone production.As opposed to risky hormone drugs, Maca powder acts naturally to nourish your glands in a completely safe and natural way, stimulating the production of your own estrogen, progesterone and testosterone hormones.
Macafem supplements promote the body’s natural ability to maintain hormones at healthy levels. As a result, the body works in a much more efficient way, to the benefit of your overall health.
User Comments
"Yes the Maca seems to work for me. I am a 54 year old Male Carpenter, twice a day morning and night 1/4tsp . the Maca seems to have helped with my stamina and recovery after a heavy day at work, I had not been bouncing back. My appetite also seems to have improved as well. Cheers" -Chris
"Good morning Nadia and thank you for your email. Yes I am taking the maca powder regularly - 1 tsp each morning. I believe it is helping the hot flushes as I am gettting them less frequently - they haven't completely stopped, but they are definitely better. Cheers" - Helen
"I use your product daily, have between a quarter to a half teaspoon on either my breakfast or in a small glass of water. I combine this with 1 tablet of the 'Promensil' Brand. Before I started your product and the Promensil I was having 18-20 hot flushes per day - rather exhausting. With each passing week I felt my symptoms easing. You can't imagine how wonderful it is to sleep through the night without the hot flashes. It has done wonders for me and my general outlook on life. Your product is worth its weight in gold. In time I want to give up the Promensil and only use the Maca - perhaps another month or so! Regards" -Colleen
"Hi Nadia I find the Maca powder good. I have PCOS and I have a period this term. The maca powder seamed t slow the bleeding so it is not so heavy but I really want it to stop...thank you" -Joanne
"Thank you for your email, I am very happy with the Maca Powder. It helps keep my painful periods in check. Thanks again" -Terri
Where To Order Maca Root (Powder)
Click here for more details
What Is Maca Root?
Maca (Lepidium Meyenii) is a dehydrated vegetable plant which produces a radish-like root in a multitude of colors, ranging from white to black and purple. The area where the Macafem root grows is probably one of the most difficult places in the world to grow vegetables, with an extremely inhospitable soil and climate, but Maca root has somehow thrived where nothing else could.
Maca Root's Begining's
While maca thrives in the most rugged terrain above 12,000 feet, political uprisings and a change in the popular diet pushed maca plants close to extinction by the late 1970's. Careful seed harvesting and the resourcefulness of dedicated native people have protected it from extinction. Families in the vicinity of Lake Junin (Condor, Maqque, Vicuna and more), and generations before, are owed insurmountable debt for their dedication to the preservation of this astounding, health giving crop.
Today, there is a huge upswing in maca farming in the highlands of Peru, with more than 1,000 acres planted annually. Once again, maca is eaten up to 3 times a day by Peruvians, from professional athletes to the elderly, to give them energy, increase emotional stability, highten sexual ability, and build immune function.
Maca Powder Balances Female Hormones:
“What makes Maca Powder so effective is that rather than introducing hormones from outside the body, Maca Powder encourages the ovaries and other glands to produce the needed hormones naturally. Maca Powder regulates the organs of internal secretion, such as the pituitary, and the adrenal glands. There are many female users of this amazing herbal supplement whose premenopausal and postmenopausal symptoms are alleviated by taking Maca Powder.
The Maca Root Cultivation Grounds:
The Maca Root is grown at altitudes as high as 12,000 - 14,500 feet above sea level. The volcanically enriched soils, the unpolluted atmosphere, and the extremely cold and oxygen-poor climate may be the main reasons for Macafem's extraordinary properties.
In fact, no other plant in the world can grow at such high altitudes and in such extreme weather. Freezing cold, intense sunlight and strong winds are just some of the conditions in which Maca Root grows. This herb can survive because it has the ability to absorb all surrounding nutrients.
This is why the Maca Root contains so many minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, etc. The conditions in which it grows are not suitable for growing any vegetation, but the Maca root has the reputation of being the strongest and highest-growing food plant in the world.
The Maca Root And Hormonal Balance:
The menstrual cycle is an intricate balance between body, mind and emotions. Governed by hormones and the moon - your menstrual cycle can either be a source of great health ( helping you balance body and emotions and acting as a compass for your life) or a source of major discomfort and distress.
Some of the symptoms of distress and hormonal imbalance include:
- too little bleeding or too few periods,
- too much bleeding,
- short cycles,
- long cycles
- pain including PMS and menstrual cramping, headaches
- mood swings,
- depression and loss of self worth and self esteem.
These irregularities can also contribute to other fertility problems when you want to conceive, and can affect your ability to maintain a healthy pregnancy. If your hormones are imbalanced then all these areas of fertility can be affected.
Many of these problems are caused by a lack in our diet, lack of health, too much stress and too little understanding of the way the female body works.
Medically these irregularities are otfen treated by introducing (often artificial) hormones into the delicate female system. These hormones regulate your menstrual cycle by overriding your bodies natural rhythm.
For example - when you take the Pill, these artificial hormones effectively trick your body into thinking it is already pregnant. (So if you are on the pill for 2 or 5 or 10 years - your body thinks it is pregnant all that time.) So at mid-cycle when you would normally ovulate, nothing happens. No egg is released from your ovaries and pregnancy cannot occur. The glands that normally run your menstrual cycle are temporarily shut down while you are on the Pill - they do not function in the same way as they would naturally and you do not have a normal natural menstrual cycle. You still have a period of sorts - the correct term is "hormone withdrawal bleed" - because when the input of artificial hormones stops (that is, when you take the sugar pills) the uterine lining is shed. This lining is thinner than normal, resulting in lighter bleeding.
As stated earlier the menstrual cycle isn't just about physical responses. The cycle is also a emotional and often spiritual experince if we allow it to be so. There are many natural products and superfoods that can nutritionally support and assist your body to function optimally. Maca Powder is one.
Some women choose to eat Maca Powder as an alternative to taking artificial hormones. What makes Maca so effective is that rather than introducing hormones from outside (whether chemical or natural) Maca nutritionally supports the glands in the body to optimal function according to the individuals unique requirements.
By taking Maca Powder your body will adjust its hormones levels naturally.
In Peru and the USA, Maca is considered beneficial for:
- Energy - by balancing the endocrine system - thyroid, pituitary, pancreas and adrenal glands
- Wellbeing, vitality, emotional balance and stamina
- Change of life discomfort such as hot flushes, breast tenderness, sleeplessness, mood swings and brain fog
Low Libido - Maca's aphrodisiac qualities increase sex drive and may relieve other low libido effects like decreased vaginal lubrication.
General menstrual irregularity - it is well known that menstrual irregularity, like short and long cycles, too little or too much bleeding, spotting, pain etc. can stem from poor nutritional absorption ie, Vit B6, magnesium, EFA's, which in turn upsets the body's delicate hormonal system. As Maca is a whole food organically grown it retains maximum nutritional value, unlike many of the foods on the supermarket or green grocers shelf.
Healthy Fertility - Pregnancy demands extra nutrients for a healthy baby. Unfortunately, many of today's women are overworked, stressed and/or have a long history of taking the Birth Control Pill find that their fertility is compromised. Using Maca Powder can be an affordable, excellent nutritional addition to every woman's diet.
Peruvian women start to take maca at the age of three, then gradually include it as a staple part of their diet. They are fertile well into later life... "Laboratory studies of rats have found that they had improved fertility after eating maca - females increased egg follicle development and males have increased their sperm count. In Peru maca is given to livestock to improve fertility a well as strength." From Good Medicine Magazine Australia
How long does it take to work?
Maca's nutrients affects the body at a cellular level and gives it a chance to re-adjust. It is important to take enough, to take it regularly, and to be patient allowing your body to re-vitalise at its own rate. Some people notice Maca's beneficial effects within two weeks, others might take a little longer, perhaps up to 3 months.
If you haven't tried Maca then you need to consider your personal tastes. Maca does have a nutty kind of flavour - some poeple like the taste and others prefer to take it in capsule form. If you are used to taking supplements - herbs and the like, then the powder is for you. If you are sensitive to the way things taste then you are probably better off with the VegeCapsules.
The beauty of Maca is that it is a whole food - unadulterated and pure just as nature intended food to be. With this in mind - when you buy your Maca - use these guidelines below to ensure you are getting the best quality product available
Conclusion:
Maca Powder Does Work!
What it does is simple: The Maca powder nutrients stimulate the endocrine system (in charge of regulating hormones) to keep the body's hormones balanced in a safe and natural way. But to truly understand how it works, let’s first see how your endocrine system functions, and then how Maca powder stimulates it in a healthy way.
Hormones and Endocrine System
Hormones are chemical messengers that course through the bloodstream and regulate the metabolism. All the body's processes are basically “ordered” and “commanded” by hormones. At the same time, the endocrine system controls and regulates hormonal levels and keeps them in a healthy balance according to what the body needs.
However, the endocrine system may begin to show deficiencies as a result of environmental influences, the natural process of aging, or from other causes.
The entire metabolism is affected with any sudden fluctuation in hormone levels. The whole body goes off balance, triggering the most common health problems for women, such as PMS, decreased libido, hot flashes, infertility, mood swings, depression, and menopause symptoms. This is why it is so important to keep hormonal levels in balance.
Maca Powder, The Natural Hormonal Balancer
Rather than taking risky drugs to supply hormones in your body, Maca Powder acts naturally, nourishing your glands inducing proper production of your own estrogen, progesterone and testosterone hormones. But this occurs naturally, not with time-bomb drugs, which throw the entire body into a dangerous state of confusion.
How Maca Powder Improves the Endocrine System
As a natural product, The nutrients in Maca powder help to improve your endocrine system by inducing the optimal functioning of the pituitary and endocrine glands, thus nourishing and stimulating your own hormone production.As opposed to risky hormone drugs, Maca powder acts naturally to nourish your glands in a completely safe and natural way, stimulating the production of your own estrogen, progesterone and testosterone hormones.
Macafem supplements promote the body’s natural ability to maintain hormones at healthy levels. As a result, the body works in a much more efficient way, to the benefit of your overall health.
User Comments
"Yes the Maca seems to work for me. I am a 54 year old Male Carpenter, twice a day morning and night 1/4tsp . the Maca seems to have helped with my stamina and recovery after a heavy day at work, I had not been bouncing back. My appetite also seems to have improved as well. Cheers" -Chris
"Good morning Nadia and thank you for your email. Yes I am taking the maca powder regularly - 1 tsp each morning. I believe it is helping the hot flushes as I am gettting them less frequently - they haven't completely stopped, but they are definitely better. Cheers" - Helen
"I use your product daily, have between a quarter to a half teaspoon on either my breakfast or in a small glass of water. I combine this with 1 tablet of the 'Promensil' Brand. Before I started your product and the Promensil I was having 18-20 hot flushes per day - rather exhausting. With each passing week I felt my symptoms easing. You can't imagine how wonderful it is to sleep through the night without the hot flashes. It has done wonders for me and my general outlook on life. Your product is worth its weight in gold. In time I want to give up the Promensil and only use the Maca - perhaps another month or so! Regards" -Colleen
"Hi Nadia I find the Maca powder good. I have PCOS and I have a period this term. The maca powder seamed t slow the bleeding so it is not so heavy but I really want it to stop...thank you" -Joanne
"Thank you for your email, I am very happy with the Maca Powder. It helps keep my painful periods in check. Thanks again" -Terri
Where To Order Maca Root (Powder)
Click here for more details
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