hello all,
i had been researching something “natural” to take for hormone imbalance because my doctor wanted to put me on birth control pills. After much research, I had found maca. I bought it at a health food store. Each capsule is 750mg. The supplemental facts state “organic gelatinized maca powder(root). Then it states “other ingredients” Microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate.
I started taking it on Tuesday, 1/29/13 and took one in morning and one in afternoon (by the suggestion of the herbalist? at the store) and felt nothing but actually more tired. Thursday, 1/30, I could hardly get out of bed in the morning, today I feel the same, kind of tired. Should these capsules not have these extra ingredients in them? It seems I shouldnt be feeling more tired. Any suggestions? Thank you. And where did TImothy disappear to?
By: meleelee
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By: Christine Deverell
Sometimes taking a new supplement can make symptoms worse, or make you a bit uncomfortable, but never forget the healing process can be painful. This is useful information about Maca which I have just started taking again, as I love the benefits, but I will be exercising caution, as you should with anything like this.
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By: Pete
hello,
I have been on Maca for 4 weeks now, but as it seems, Maca will take a long time to boost my T level to normal again, if at all: on a scale of 3-10 my Testosterone is below 2…
So I am thinking about the next step: TRT – however there seem to be many possible side effects, especially in my case I have to be very careful, because of extremely high Liver values (gamma GT is 970), making me hesitate to try TRT at all – and then my urologist will not give me a prescription, as he also is afraid of the effects for the liver…
But what else can I do to feel better? – I am pretty nervous all day long, and I refer it to the low T level. I also heard, that men with low T levels get health problems anyway and do not live very long…
My endokrinologist supports the view, that there is a connection between the Low T and my Liver problem….
So, should I try TRT ???
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By: Nick
Hi Pete, Maca has no affect on Testosterone levels.
What exercise do you do?
What is your alcohol intake?
How does Testosterone affect your liver?
I ask these as you can raise your levels by reducing/cutting alcohol and simply hitting the heavy weights and doing squats/deadlifts..these movements increase free test. Combined with the right foods: lots of lean meat and lots of vegetables, and lots of sleep (8hrs) will do it. Add Zinc/ZMA and you will feel a lot better.
I ask about the liver as only oral Test tablets like Dianabol will affect your liver..injectable/transdermal will not.
Cheers, Nick
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By: Charity
After the birth of my son, I was experiencing depression, mood swings, no libido, excessive fatigue, and anxiety. I had these symptoms for 9 months. I have been taking Maca Magic for about 2 weeks now and I feel amazing. I have my life back. It’s like the fog is lifted and I have energy and I can think clearly. It is nothing short of a miracle. I did not have any hormone testing before, which would have been optimal. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is any medical dr who would be on board with this supplement, and I won’t take antidepressants which I could only guess would be the recommendation. I take 1 teaspoon per day. The only side effect I have had has been gas, but It’s nothing to deal with compared to what I was experiencing before. I feel like it might just be my body adjusting, like when you increase fiber intake. Also, I have been trying to eliminate sugar from my diet (it’s my drug of choice). I have never been successful for more than a day of so before. I have now been sugar free for almost two weeks. I haven’t even had any real cravings.
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By: Peter
hi Nick,
Maca seems to have been very successful in improving my liver values: the Gamma-GT went down from 969 to incredibly low 240 within 5 or 6 weeks. Unfortunately my testosterone values will be ready in a week, so I cannot tell, if they improved as well, but the liver shows a great improvement.
I reduced alcohol to almost Zero, but long before Maca, and there was little change…
I´m performing power-sports, but started long before Maca, too (since 1 year)….
And I changed my diet before Maca, too, eating more meat, fish, vegetables and salad, avoiding sugar, fat and carbon-hydrates…
so Maca seems to have done it, or the combination of Maca, sports, food and low alcohol….
how the Testosterone level changed, I can tell you in a week or two…
thank you for the hint with the Zinc…!
Cheers, Pete
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By: Jan
Hi, I have been taking Maca Power certified organic powder in Australia. I am 51 and tried it due to menopause symptoms, mainly lack of energy and mild depression. The first 2 weeks were inconsistent with energy levels and symptoms, but since then have mainly had amazing improvement in energy. I started with half a teaspoon in juice and built up to a heaped tsp per day. I only take it before lunchtime otherwise the high energy keeps me awake at night. I think it would be better with food but although I eat generally healthy food I have trouble eating in the morning. In the first 2 weeks I did notice some little heart palpitations and random little possible symptoms. I think 1 use a quality product 2 start slow 3 take food 4 listen to Your body. I only take it in morning, but it has changed my life for the better like no other product more energy more happy. Good luck.
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By: Paola
Hello
Maca has been around for centuries and from what I know It is taken regularly in Peru. I myself was born there but I was raised in Canada. When my oldest son got sick and started getting a headache that lasted him 2 weeks and the doctors here said they had to do more studies because they had ruled out migraines, a friend of the family recommended I speak to his uncle a renown naturalist in Peru. One of his recommendations was that I give my son Maca but not by itself he told me to make a drink of oats and quinua and add a little maca. That drink is how they have it back home.
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By: Paola
From what I understand there are lots of variation of the drink that include different ingredients that do different things.
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By: Maria
Hello
I as advised by my Naturopath to take maca powder because of low libido. After reading all of this I am a little scared to try it. Can you recommend other natural remedies to help with low libido, I say a comment above where you said there were safer aphrodisiacs to use for low libido? .. Can you recommend other that won’t have such bad side effects?
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By: PhillyGuy
Well Maria, as a guy, I commented on this many months ago, and I can say this much to you. I did try a GNC bottle of just pure Maca powder capsule well over a year ago. But I didn’t take the recommended dosage on the bottle, which I think if I remember was something like 2 – 3 capsules a day. Instead, I just took 1 a day.
With just that 1, I certainly noticed a difference with my libido, I mean a “definite” difference in regard to my libido and physical “readiness”, if you catch my drift. I think 1 bottle would last you a month if you take the recommended dosage on the bottle. Since I took about 1/3 of the dosage, the bottle lasted me almost 5 – 6 months.
However, I’m always from the school of thought that I don’t just bombard my body with an unfamiliar substance all at once. I would much rather have my body “gradually” acclimate to a new herb to see how “my body” reacts. Besides, I would much rather take something natural like Maca, or Gensing, or any other herb BEFORE I would EVER ask for a prescription for Viagara, Cialis, or whatever that has a list of side effects as long as my arm! I wasn’t necessarily trying Maca solely for sexual performance, but it certainly was a reason to consider taking it, just for knowledge.
Another thing that may be a little different for me than some other people, is that I think the Maca acted very successfully for me, mostly because I’ve also maintained a pretty good diet, and at least moderate levels of exercise weekly. So, maybe someone who is overweight, maybe has some health issues with blood pressure, cholesterol, sugar, and etc. may have a different reaction to taking Maca than I have had.
But, if they don’t have as healthy a body as myself, I couldn’t imagine the side effects of Maca being worse off for that person, verses if that same person were to take a prescribed pharmaceutical equivalent.
No matter what, check with your doctor if you’re not sure about what is right for you. But I can assure you, more than half of the time, your doctor doesn’t have a clue about anything homeopathic. It’s not a requirement for most of them in med school. Prescription drugs are however. Oh, they know those drugs like the back of their hand.
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By: Peter
Hi Nick,
News: Maca seems to have improved my testosterone level as well, so it is at 4.78 ng right now, after being low in December at 1.56 ng….
The only thing, I have to fight with, is nervosity without a reason, especially in the morning…?
Cheers, Pete
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By: John
I have been getting really bad nose bleeds after taking about 3 weeks 1 tablet morning and one at night.
I stopped taking them just in case they were the cause.
I never suffered with nose bleeds in my life before.
There was complications requiring a 3 day stay in hospital.
I also got upset stomach which lasted a week after I stopped taking them.
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By: Cosi
Hmmm…. your PMT sounds more like winter blues, aka seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.).
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By: Dar
Hi all, I am a 52 year old woman and last summer started having TERRIBLE anxiety along with TERRIBLE insomnia. The anxiety caused me to not be able to eat and I lost 20 pounds in about 8 weeks, very scarey to not have control of that. I had a saliva test and turns out I had next to nothing for estrogen and my progesterone was also low. Periods were sporadic. I was close to going over the edge from no sleep and anxieity and had tried every herbal combination in the book, so chose bioidentical hormones. Shortly before I started taking the BHRT, I started using some chinese herbs designed the ‘balance the body’ along with a greens product that contained 1000mg of maca (I assume raw). The first month I was taking all 3 products and had my period (very small) but right on schedule and I was sleeping great and anxiety was gone. At the end of that first month, I ran out of the chinese herbs but though the BHRT was really the thing that was working. Then the next month, the greens formula with the maca ran out, so I was down to just the BHRT. I started not being able to sleep again, so ordered what I now know (from this blog) is raw yellow maca. Started with 1/4 teas and worked up to 1/2 teaspoon, started sleeping again. Then decided to have my hormones tested, they came back really high with didn’t make any sense, so I decided to titrate them down and transfer to maca. Then found out I did the test wrong. I’m still committed to getting off the BHRT for many reasons and onto gelantanized black maca as recommended by Tim. He seemed to be quite an authority on maca. I used his link and bought the maca last night. As soon as it arrives I will begin the weaning process of the BHRT along with changing macas and increasing that does to compensate for the lowered BHRT. I hope this works. I was a crazy person on the edge before BHRT. I will keep you all posed as to my results. I spoke with the owner of the company I bought the maca from and he said there are slight differences between the different colors of maca, but it’s really splitting hairs. He said they are all basically the same, although the black maca seems to be a little higher in alkaloids. So we’ll see how this works out. If the black maca doesn’t work, I may try the Femmenessence. Wish me luck :)
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By: Dar
Correction: ‘increasing that dose’
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By: Dar
Stephanie, you should be taking the gelanitized maca and it sounds like you may be taking a bit too much. Rather than stopping it altogether, you might consider just cutting the dose a bit.
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By: Dar
An update on my progress of changing over from my bioidentical hormones to just maca to manage my perimenopause symptoms. So far, so good. I’ve managed to cut my hormones in halve and increasing the maca at the same time. In the next couple of days, I’ll decease the hormones further and increase the maca a bit. Hopefully before long I’ll be off the bioidentials altogther an on just plain maca. Much healthier alternative all the way around.
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By: Lisa
Fran reading your symptoms, I was just wondering, a very personal question, have you had a Tubal Ligation. If so or anyone else reading this or any men that may have had a vasectomy, please research side effects. These two surgeries have ruined some people’s lives & some marriages. I am in the process of saving for a Tubal reversal, but have been looking at maca powder to help with the constant fatigue, but at the same time a little worried about the weakness of my body due to this surgery that it may be too strong as I struggle with chilli, garlic etc.
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