Posted by bleauberry on March 31, 2011, at 16:41:21
In reply to alternatives?, posted by Cydnie on March 31, 2011, at 8:37:10
My perspective....there is amazing potency in many herbs, with dozens of active ingredients in each working in concert to get a lot of good things accomplished that none of them isolated on their own could do.
Maca...it is very potent in my experience. Rapid antidepressant but rapid poop out as well, for me anyway. I probably took it wrong because Maca is one of those plants, like most actually, that needs to be taken continuously for months for all its benefits to overcome the disease and symptoms. If I had kept taking it for months maybe it would have gone better but I stopped it after a few days.
For sure it did one amazing thing....my hands which are always cold, well, they became warm to the touch. That was really nice. Plants have such wide ranging actions it is hard to know what Maca was doing to warm up my hands....microcirculation?....adrenal?....thyroid?....other?...unknown?...or what it did to immediately lift the mood. Dunno. I just know that for me it is potent stuff. My doses were only maybe the tip of a teaspoon or less...enough to fill maybe 1/4 of a capsule.
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