Maca is a cruciferous root (same botanical family as the turnip and broccoli) which grows at 12,500 - 14,500 feet above sea level--the highest growing food plant in the world--in the high Andean plateaus of central Peru. It is believed to be one of the earliest domesticated food plants of Peru, right along with the potato. It almost became extinct because first the Incas restricted its use to the royal court, including their warriors. Then the Spanish who conquered Peru eventually forbid anyone to plant it, along with several other Andean food plants such as quinoa, since these plants were used in native religious ceremonies, and the Spanish were trying to stamp out native religion.

The pioneering work done by Peruvian researchers suggests that the alkaloids in the maca root stimulate the hypothalamus and pituitary to produce more precursor hormones which then impact on all of the endocrine glands--the pineal, the adrenals, ovaries, testes, pancreas, and the thyroid gland. So maca appears to be stimulating the body to produce its own hormones more adequately rather than supplying hormones from an outside source. Men need to be taking a daily zinc supplement since the prostate needs a lot of zinc to function adequately. And maca will work better for them if they have enough zinc.

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As men age, like women, their output of precursor hormones from the hypothalamus and pituitary slows down, and they go through something which has been called 'andropause.' This process is considered more gradual than is menopause in women, taking about ten years of gradually declining hormone levels and will eventually leave a man unable to function sexually or with greatly impaired sexual functioning (i.e. premature ejaculation, infrequent and weak erections, loss of sexual desire).

In a recent study published in the professional journal, Urology, a series of rat studies involving feeding some groups of rats maca and others a normal diet (the control groups), the groups of rats getting the maca had many more 'penile intromissions' (erections) than the control groups and in the groups of rats suffering from erectile dysfunction who were fed maca, a much quicker erection response was noticed as compared with the control groups. This experiment confirmed what most men taking maca have noticed, more frequent erections, stronger erections which lasted longer, and more sexual desire.

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That's why we have decided to recommend all of our patients to take 1 capsule with 500 mg. of MACA every eight hours as a basic treatment, regardless of the other therapeutic measures that are advisable according to their particular profile.

Now in addition, we are able to refer you to a reliable supplier of MACA directly from it's origin, in other words it will be Maca from Peru of the highest quality. Our supplier of Maca guarantee that the MACA is from Peru, grown at high altitude and according to the "Inca's standards".

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