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Maca Antioxidants and its Effects on Men and Women!To improve libido, both men and women benefit from Maca, and women also find improvement with menopause symptoms.It is a herbaceous plant, similar to a radish.
It is rich in essential minerals, fatty acids, and 19 amino acids, which are protein building blocks. People looking to achieve hormonal balance ask is it safe? We can be assured that it is not an experimental drug; but a nutritious food, and people in Peru have been using it every day finding that it also enhances strength and endurance. It is ground into flour, roasted, boiled and even made into beer! The discovery of nutritional fats along with proteins and vital nutrients make this plant a nutritional health book on it's own!
As in the article below, maca has been shown to increase fertility. 
used traditionally to increase fertility
Increase Female Fertility Effect on learning and depression Nutrients This plant grows well only in cold climates with relatively poor soil, and although it has been cultivated outside the Andes, it does not have the same potency.
Natural products have played a significant role in drug discovery and development; especially for help against pain, cancer and infectious disease.
It is difficult for science to measure the increase in libido in our human race, but many research articles have been published on the marked increase of libido in rats!
There have been studies done that report improvement in erectile dysfunction, and an immediate improvement in both sperm count and motility, and it is stated that there is an increase in sexual desire.
Other research reports a lowering of blood pressure and also a lowering of blood glucose. The Pubmed article listed here showed;
Pubmed article on improved semen in men
Because of this balancing effect, both men and women appear to benefit from these nutrients, and from the anecdotal evidence, where the general population use this plant as a food staple, there appears to be no evidence of negative affects on anyone.
Many women, myself included want safe effective, cost-effective, natural alternatives that give relief, rather than conventional HRT. I personally have found that I had a lifting of mood after about one week of use, and improvement sleeping also, with a little longer for hot flushes. I found an interesting supplement that has Maca included in a liquid mineral drink, but I personally found it helpful with my symptoms!
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