O/T---Maca

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Maca was great for a short trial, ended feeling bad, but I cannot

say for sure it was Maca or something else. Seems like every few

days I just have a severe slump maybe due to something I ate or some

biological thing mercury/lead do or something. In psychiatry they

would call it double depression...a dip into depression from an

ongoing dysthymia. In chronic fatigue symdrome they would call it a

flare up. In the hormonal arena it would be a fluctuating cycle

thing. Maybe it's just the moon. Who knows.

Back to Maca. First day...nice smooth energy, not jittery energy;

brightened mood, not nearly as depressed as usual; more social, not

so quiet and withdrawn; felt warm instead cold. After 3 days people

who know me and who shook my hand said my hands felt warm and that

they were always cold before. After 3 days though I was feeling

blah, depressed, a bit irritable, and just out of sorts. Like I

said, I don't know if it was Maca or not. But I do know for sure,

Maca has some amazing potential in the

hormonal/adrenal/thyroid/brain axis.

At the time I was taking the raw powder. Since then I have tried

tablets. Even though the tablets were from a top quality company and

the herb was top stuff, somehow it was different and inferior to the

raw powder to where it was actually a bad herb instead of a good one.

As a sidenote, even though my normally cold hands were quite warm

with Maca, my temperature was still hovering around its usual 97.8-

98.0 degrees. Very few supplements that I've tried before will I try

again. But Maca is high on my list to try again. High quality powder

only. For me, 1/4 teaspoon was nice.

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> > Of all the adrenal treatments, the only one I have found

beneficial

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> > unsung hero for treating adrenal fatigue, but not well known. It

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> > usually known for boosting libido, which it did not do for me.

In a

> > 3 day trial it did take my lifelong cold hands and make them

warm.

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