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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