Menopause
Traditionally, Maca is known as women liberator when it comes to a treatment for menopause symptoms. To find out whether these claims are true a research in 14 postmenopausal women was carried out in order to examine the estrogenic and androgenic activity of Maca and its effect on the hormonal profile and symptoms.
Each woman received 3.5 g/day of powered Maca for 6 weeks. “Findings showed that Maca reduces psychological symptoms, including anxiety and depression, and lowers measures of sexual dysfunction in postmenopausal women independent of estrogenic and androgenic activity”.
It has been also revealed that sterols (Maca has natural sterols) in Maca help the body to produce its own natural hormones (rather than adding hormones to the system) according to its needs. Maca increases successfully libido in both sexes and enhances women’s ability to conceive.
Traditionally, Maca is known as a menopausal rescuer when it comes to a treatment for menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness.
How Maca helps with hormone replacement therapy (HRT)?
Unlike other HRT remedies, Maca does not supply the body with hormones (it does not supply plant hormones like phytoestrogens) and it does not cause ovaries to atrophy. Rather, Maca acts on the hypothalamus-pituitary gland thus stimulate (acts in a regulatory manner) the body to produce its own hormones. So, whether your body is producing too much or too little of a particular hormone, using Maca your system will get balanced. By balancing hormones, Maca root is believed to help to reduce symptoms of menopause such as night sweats, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, sleeplessness.