Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is a vegetable shaped like a turnip, and is somewhat like a root. This plant is unique in that it is only grown in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador and Peru above 12,000 feet.
Maca root has been used by the indigenous peoples of Peru as a medicine and food source for over 2000 years. They also use it to support and turns infertility, enhance energy, sexual really and vitality.
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How was maca discovered?
History tells us that the Spaniards overtook the Andes Mountains and took control. They began to suffer a loss of sex drive soon after they arrived. Both women and men alike suffered from sterility and their libido, too, suffered at that altitude. Therefore, they could often not conceive and if they did, they could often not carry their pregnancies to term.
In addition, their animals, too, began to suffer reproductive difficulties. Horses, mules and dogs stopped having offspring. Even so, Spaniards soon realized that llamas, as well as other local animals, did not have any problems with their libido levels and reproduced successfully.
How did they differ? The native people ate a root that could only be found high on the mountains. Animals, too, dug this root up and ate it. Once cooked, it will be mashed into a powder, then consumed continuously.
The Spaniards began to take note of this and began to feed this root, maca, to their animals, and they began to consume it themselves, too. They learnt that native Peruvians are the experts in it.
The Spaniards' sex drive came back dramatically; animals, too, began to engage in reproductive activities once again, and the women could both conceive and carry their infants to term. In short, they lived happily ever after, as the story goes.
How does this seemingly magical root operate?
This food is beneficial to the endocrine and granular systems, which include glands involved in hormonal balance (e.g. thyroid, adrenal, and pituitary). Maca can impact key hormones in both the men and women to their advantage, but it doesn't contain hormones itself.
Maca helps nourish and stimulate the pituitary gland. It behaves like a tonic for hormonal regulation. When the pituitary gland is functioning optimally, the entire endocrine system, too, regains its balance, because pituitary gland is in control of the hormonal output of the other three glands involved.
In the female body, estrogen is affected by maca. If a woman's estrogen levels are too high or too low, this can affect a woman's ability to become pregnant or to carry a fetus to term. If the body's estrogen levels are too high, the levels of progesterone may become too low. If a woman takes maca, it can increase her progesterone levels, which in turn helps a woman maintain a pregnancy to a safe term.
If men have too much estrogen in their bodies, they can suffer from erectile dysfunction and a diminished or absent libido. It can also lower sperm count as well as the quantity of seminal fluid in general. If you take maca and you are a man, your libido will increase as well as your sperm count.
Maca may help:
- Reestablish hormonal balance in women.
- Increase sex drive in both women and men.
- Defend eggs' fitness.
- Raise sperm count, increase overall seminal volume, and increase the motility of sperm.
Who Should Use Maca?
Maca is especially beneficial to you if you are trying to become pregnant or if you are getting ready to become pregnant relatively soon. Since it is a type of food, you are able to take it whenever you want. However, if you are a woman who is experiencing any of the following, it may be especially beneficial to you:
· Substandard egg health
· Stress-induced infertility
· Hormonal payments for ultimate in vitro fertilization
· Miscarriage
· Polycystic ovarian syndrome
· Endometriosis
Maca also helps you incur a sense of well being and have a sharper mind because hormonal balance can improve these things.
How to Use maca
Maca comes in tincture, pills, capsules or powder. The powder is great to include in smoothies, while the capsules are convenient to make sure you get maca in your diet every day.
If you wish to purchase maca, make sure it's organically grown. Today, some of the areas in the Andes are contaminated by water from the mines, so if the maca you buy is nonorganic, you may be putting yourself in danger of lead or mercury contamination. Your maca root should also not be diluted with additives or fillers.
It is recommended that the daily dose of maca root be between 2000 and 3000 mg per day. You also need to make sure you take it every day, for optimal results.
Remember that there will be no side effects when you take maca, because it's a food. If you take it in capsule format, three to six capsules a day will provide you an optimal dose. If you use the powder form, start with half a teaspoon of powder and work up to one tablespoon.
How to Use Fertility Herb Maca to Boost Your Fertility
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Hethir is a Holistic Health Practitioner who specializes in natural fertility and helps women boost there fertility naturally through her website http://www.natural-fertility-info.com