Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So when we're talking about maca, what "gelatinized" means is that some of the complex sugars have been converted to glucose or more simple sugars so that it's more readily available for the body. There's a lot of talk about it right now. People are saying that it's stronger, but I think it's just more readily available biologically. It doesn't really differentiate it so much.
Mike: Do you have a good website to recommend if people want to find out more about maca?
Rumery: Sure, there's macaroot.com.
Mike: Really? How does the powder taste?
Rumery: It tastes delicious. |
| Our second largest clientele to whom we sell maca are men who are looking for sexual energy. maca is known to increase sperm count and motility in males, and egg follicle maturation in females. One of our other largest target market groups is the elderly. This is because, it being an endocrine adaptogen, maca is beneficial for osteoporosis. It contains all that potassium and calcium in a biologically available form for the hair, skin, nails and bones.
Mike: What form is it in? Is it in a tablet? What's the most popular form? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We go inspect the facilities and the farms once a year, and we go to a lot of places where the maca, which is our flagship product, grows. Our maca powder is grown up at about 14,000 feet, but you have to go up over an 18,000-foot pass to get there. It's quite an adventure. Not many people actually do this trip, and they're beautiful people up there. They could have excellent farms and excellent conditions for growing the product on surprisingly barren land with very harsh conditions. It's one of the hardiest plants in the world.
Mike: Oh, wow. |
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| We hear on an almost daily basis women saying things to us like, "Thank you, I haven't had a hot flash since I started taking maca."
Mike: Can you explain perimenopausal?
Rumery: Perimenopausal. "Peri" means "around," so it's pre-menopausal, during menopause and after menopause. There are even reports of benefits after hysterectomy, because maca is working on all of the glands, the adrenal glands, the ovaries. So it's the new premier herb as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy. |
| We basically have five different target market groups, but our most valuable customers right now are women, to whom we sell more maca than any other clientele for perimenopausal reasons. We hear on an almost daily basis women saying things to us like, "Thank you, I haven't had a hot flash since I started taking maca."
Mike: Can you explain perimenopausal?
Rumery: Perimenopausal. "Peri" means "around," so it's pre-menopausal, during menopause and after menopause. |
| Mike: Do you have a good website to recommend if people want to find out more about maca?
Rumery: Sure, there's macaroot.com.
Mike: Really? How does the powder taste?
Rumery: It tastes delicious. It has a very complex taste. It's kind of like a liquorish extract, but it's also radishy; or it tastes kind of turnipy, malty -- it's really excellent. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 They are also used to make a sweet fermented drink called maca chicha. maca powder is often added to smoothies and "superfood" confections.
The leaves are also edible and can be eaten raw or cooked.
Other Uses
The Inca cultivated maca over two thousand years ago. Legend has it that Incan warriors would consume it before battle as a strengthening tonic. During the Spanish colonialization of Peru, maca was used as a currency. There are chronicles of Spanish conquistadors finding that their horses and pigs became infertile at the high altitude (a common phenomenon). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Navitas Naturals offers maca powder, cacao powder, golden power Incan berries and Goji berries, which are all some of the best superfoods available in the world today. Zach Adelman with Navitas Naturals is going to give you an introduction to some of these products.
Zach Adelman: Hello everyone. We've got an excellent group of products here, and we'll start with the goji berry -- which is one of the hottest products here today at the show. The goji berry is a very nutritious dried berry that grows up in Tibet and Mongolia. We like to call ours an authentic Tibetan berry. |
Mike Adams
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 A lot of people also report the same benefits from eating the maca herb. maca is also from South America, and it's an energizing, mood-stabilizing herb that is now gaining popularity. There are some great products that use maca, in particular Ruth's Hemp Foods, which offers a hemp-protein-plus-maca product that is simply outstanding. I highly recommend it.
In terms of raw cacao, I recommend David Wolf's company, Nature's First Law, which is found at www.RawFood.com. |
Andreas Moritz
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 For those who still don't find relief, maca root may be the answer; it jogs the pituitary and hypothalamus and balances hormones in the body. maca root has helped to reduce hot flashes by 80 percent. Start taking two teaspoons per day, one in the morning and one in the late afternoon. Since maca has an energizing effect, you should avoid it too close to bedtime. When symptoms die down, reduce your intake to a 3A teaspoon twice daily. Mix it with juice or take it in capsule form, as its taste is somewhat unpleasant. |
Mike Adams
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| A lot of people also report the same benefits from eating the maca herb. maca is also from South America, and it's an energizing, mood-stabilizing herb that is now gaining popularity. There are some great products that use maca, in particular Ruth's Hemp Foods, which offers a hemp-protein-plus-maca product that is simply outstanding. I highly recommend it.
In terms of raw cacao, I recommend David Wolf's company, Nature's First Law, which is found at www.RawFood.com. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Our partner company in Peru is led by an agricultural engineer that was trained in England -- he's Peruvian -- and he's become instrumental in going around to these agricultural families in all the different regions of Peru and helping them convert their lands into organic farms so they can produce cacao, maca and other products for us. But, they own their own land, and we pay them a fair wage. Some companies will go in there and buy the land from people and then control the people more. We're into educating them and helping them develop the products and providing an economic source for them. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Other Uses
The Inca cultivated maca over two thousand years ago. Legend has it that Incan warriors would consume it before battle as a strengthening tonic. During the Spanish colonialization of Peru, maca was used as a currency. There are chronicles of Spanish conquistadors finding that their horses and pigs became infertile at the high altitude (a common phenomenon). Incan farmers recommended that the Spaniards feed the animals maca, as they had found that it increased reproduction in their own llamas and alpacas. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| To complement this product, we also work directly with our partner company in Peru that produces our maca and our cacao products. We offer several forms of cacao, starting with the very popular nib -- and that's where we take the cacao bean, remove the shell and grind it into a nib for ease of consumption. We also sell the very nutritious and potent raw powder, as well as the whole bean. Cacao is a very rich source of magnesium as well as being the base of all chocolate products -- and we know how everybody likes to eat chocolate. Well, this is a very nutritious form. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Their Ancient Wisdom Bar is sweetened with raw organic yacon syrup (which has a glycemic index of about 12, making it the ideal sweetener for anyone watching their blood sugar) and contains maca, lucuma powder and raw cacao. And when you're ready for the ultimate nutritional adventure in superior chocolate products, order their Superfood Chocolate Bar and get ready for a taste explosion of spirulina, chlorella, maca, burdock root, nettles, probiotics, icelandic kelp, dulse, enzymes and much more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But maybe that's because I'm high on raw cacao and maca the whole time, too. Superfoods really do work, and I found a chocolate bar made of 92% cacao. Plus, I munched on Incan Berries the whole time, and brought my own organic macadamia nuts from www.SouthKonaMacs.com (which wasn't at the show). I drank an egg protein breakfast by snarfing down cups of Jay Robb's new egg protein product (www.JayRobb.com) and even ate some dried yacon tuber over at Navitas Naturals (www.NavitasNaturals.com).
So I can't complain, actually. I still had a good time, and I'm glad the show exists. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 These results would seem to suggest that maca, depending on the length of use, could act as a hormonal toner and stimulate the production of estrogen and progesterone.
Maca
Four 500-mg capsules (2,000 mg) per day
Traditional Herbs
Uterine Stimulants. Uterine stimulants or emmenagogues increase tone or muscular activity and serve to initiate the onset of menses and stimulate reproductive function. Most important are the herbs that cause shedding of the endometrium and stimulate normal menstrual cycles in the absence of pregnancy. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| During the Spanish colonialization of Peru, maca was used as a currency. There are chronicles of Spanish conquistadors finding that their horses and pigs became infertile at the high altitude (a common phenomenon). Incan farmers recommended that the Spaniards feed the animals maca, as they had found that it increased reproduction in their own llamas and alpacas. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Rhodiola (3% Rosavin)
200 mg per day (or 100 mg twice daily)
Maca (Lepidium Peruvianum). maca is a root vegetable, in the same family as turnips and broccoli, which grows at high elevations, native to the high Andean plateaus of Peru. It has been used traditionally by native Peruvians as both a food and medicine. It has historically been used for a variety of purposes, including hormone balancing, thyroid function, sexual function, PMS, menopause, and as a tonic for healthy aging. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Kilham, investigating maca in Peru on one of his frequent "Medicine Hunter" expeditions, asked a number of people why they used maca. "One woman stands out in my mind," he says. "She smiled at my question and replied, 'Well, for the sex, of course.'"
Then there's L-arginine. While no cure for impotence, L-arginine has a documented role in the body as a vasodilator, benefiting circulation and helping with endothelial dysfunction, a dysfunction of cells that line the inner surface of blood vessels. |
| According to the Tropical Plant Database website, a prohistamine like maca might have exactly the opposite effect of an tfTzr/histamine. It might make it easier for men and women who have trouble reaching orgasm to achieve it.
Natural Prescription for Impotence (Libido)
Horny goat weed, standardized to
10 percent icarlin: 2-4 500 mg capsules
Maca: 1,800-2,500 mg
L-arginine: 1,000-2,000 mg
Zinc: 25 mg
Note: All dosages are daily dosages and come in pill or capsule form unless otherwise noted.
Regardless of the science, the proof is in the pudding. |
| An interesting theory on maca and sexual activity has to do with the fact that maca contains high amounts of an amino acid called histidine. Histidine plays an often-overlooked role in both ejaculation and orgasm. It gets tricky here, but stay with me. The body uses histidine to produce histamine. High levels of histamine are often found in men who have premature ejaculation. (That's one reason why a side effect of antihistamines is difficulty in achieving orgasm. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Maca root has helped to reduce hot flashes by 80 percent. Start taking two teaspoons per day, one in the morning and one in the late afternoon. Since maca has an energizing effect, you should avoid it too close to bedtime. When symptoms die down, reduce your intake to a 3A teaspoon twice daily. Mix it with juice or take it in capsule form, as its taste is somewhat unpleasant.
Still, the best preventive action for reducing or avoiding menopausal symptoms is cleansing the liver, colon and kidneys. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| A recent study proved maca's effectiveness in treating women with amenorrhea due to hypoestrogenic states, and especially premature ovarian failure. In a study of 20 healthy menopausal women in the early phase of their menopause, maca (2,000 mg per day) was given for up to eight months and was shown to lower follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) (higher levels of FSH are a measure of low estrogen production from the ovaries) and increase luteinizing hormone (LH) (elevated LH is necessary to stimulate ovulation), resulting in increases in both estrogen levels and progesterone levels. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cacao beans, goji berries, Incan berries -- which are one of the sacred foods of the Andes mountains -- maca, which is a root from the Andes mountains -- another sacred food -- yacon root syrup, agave, a sweetener from cactus that grows out in the desert. We also do a lot of different olive varieties. I'm really into exotic olives and Mediterranean background, so I really love olives and olive oil. We do hemp seeds and hemp seed oil. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Other Liquizon products include Warrior, Sumacazon (based on suma and maca), Recovazon (for recovery from injury or physical exertion), Calmazon (reduces stress, calms the mind and body), Arcozon and others.
Departing from the typical plastic bottles used for most nutritional supplements, the Liquizon line of products is packaged in eco-friendly recycled paper boxes that are both stylish and convenient. Inside, ten individual envelopes each contain three capsules, making thirty capsules total per box. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The maca energy -- we don't exactly know which constituent in maca is responsible for that -- is for the hormonal balance. But that is the effect: The hormonal balancing. So you're working with different parts of the body to produce an overall well-being.
Mike: What are the most popular uses your customers are putting these products to? Are they blending them with protein shakes? How are they using the product?
Shamai: They're using it as a base for protein shakes. I have met people who are stirring it into yogurt and eating it like that. I know people who bake with it. |
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