Maca's efficacy and effects

Because maca contains a variety of balanced and reasonable nutritional components and a variety of biologically active secondary metabolites, maca has a variety of health and therapeutic effects and functions, traditionally used to enhance energy, improve fertility, treatment of menopausal syndrome, rheumatism, depression, anemia, in addition, it also has anti-cancer and anti-leukemia and other effects. Let's take a look at the specific effects of maca and how to eat it.

Aphrodisiac

Maca is rich in nutritional elements (such as: amino acids, polysaccharides, minerals, etc.) and its unique bioactive substances, macaene and macaamide, which can help male reproductive organs to erect quickly and enhance hardness, mainly for male friends with impotence and premature ejaculation.

Anti-fatigue

Maca contains higher amounts of iron, protein, amino acids, the mineral zinc, taurine and other components can significantly fight fatigue, enhance muscle endurance, resist athletic fatigue, help strengthen the immune system, enhance the body's resistance to disease, fight fatigue, enhance energy and stamina, and improve the symptoms of anemia. It makes the complexion look younger and more energetic.

Replenish physical strength

Because maca is born in the barren plateau, it must have high energy to grow. Because of its growth environment and characteristics, maca can quickly replenish physical strength to eliminate fatigue and restore energy, and is one of the very few qualified rapid physical strength enhancers through drug testing.

Improve the quality of sleep

More than 90% of modern people are under stress, maca can effectively improve the stress caused by anxiety and neurasthenia. In Peru, maca is used as a natural herbal remedy to relieve stress and anxiety, and it is also a good product to improve insomnia and dreaminess.

Anti-menopause

Regulate endocrine and fight against menopause syndrome - Maca's various alkaloids can regulate the functions of adrenal glands, pancreas and ovaries, balance the hormone levels in the body, and the rich taurine and protein can regulate and repair physiological functions, improve blood and qi and relieve menopausal symptoms, thus promoting female estrogen and facial appearance.

Improve fertility

Maca is rich in alkaloids, arginine and fructose. The alkaloids can stimulate the reproductive system and increase the number of egg cells and sperm exponentially; arginine is an important part of the amino acids in sperm and can improve the activity of sperm; fructose is an energy substance that gives impetus to the movement of sperm; these rich nutrients in maca can effectively enhance sperm activity, promote the combination of sperm and egg, increase the vitality of reproductive cells and improve the success rate of conception.

Enhance memory

Maca can also make the mind clear and flexible, improve work efficiency, students' learning progress, middle-aged and old people's memory ability to maintain, make people's mind clear and think clearly.

Lower blood lipids

The linoleic acid in maca combines with cholesterol in the body, which can easily transfer cholesterol to extravascular tissues, reduce the deposition of cholesterol in blood vessels, and promote the conversion of cholesterol into bile acids and discharge.

Anti-viral

Maca contains tyrosol, polysaccharide, mustard oil and benzyl isothiocyanate. Tyrosol has a protective effect on virus-infected cells; polysaccharide has an inhibitory effect on virus replication; mustard oleoresin and benzyl isothiocyanate both have anti-cancer and anti-tumor effects.

The way to eat maca

Maca in wine

Of all the traditional ways to eat, with thousands of years of wine culture of ancient civilization, maca infusion wine is bound to be one of the most popular ways to eat! Soak in white wine, the number of maca according to your bubble wine easy container to determine, the number needs to reach the container of 1/2, and then less if the nutrients leaching enough, the effect is not good! A soaking to five pounds of wine is appropriate. Soak on 30-60 days can be taken, twice a day, each drink 30-40 ml!

Maca infusion tea and infusion of water

Maca infusion of water, tea, etc. is the way the Chinese commonly used maca, but by heart, because the maca itself has a pungent spicy taste, so basically difficult to swallow, but Lamorila maca experts suggest that this effect tonic effect is not ideal, time-consuming, complex process, the body absorbs less, more wasteful. If when the tea bubble, it is really a waste. And absorption is very little very little. Maca stew (soup) Maca can be made with chicken, duck, beef, sheep, ribs together, each time take 20-30 grams of maca, to chicken, duck, beef, sheep, ribs stew after adding maca, slow stew for 5 minutes. Often drink the soup made of maca, the dosage is small, it is difficult to play the real role of maca, so, drink more soup. Remember, high temperature is easy to destroy the effective nutritional active ingredients within the maca, the consumption effect is not ideal! For the time being, it is called warming maca soup!

Maca infused with honey

First of all, mash the dried maca fruit (piece) into powder, take 4-6g, put it into a cup, boil water, put in 2 spoons of honey, stir well and then you can take it. Honey regulates the taste of maca itself, and the two together can bring a more pleasant taste, but the absorption rate is not so good!

Maca Slices

Time is the best friend of food, and time is also the mortal enemy of food. In order to preserve food, the Incas used the method of slicing maca to preserve it so that it would not rot and go bad, and dried maca slices were usually used to cook and eat.

Other ways to eat maca

Eating method 1: directly take maca, maca capsules and other professional maca products, this is currently the most convenient way to use maca. Generally taken every day in accordance with meal times, that is, three times in the morning, in the evening, before meals with warm water on an empty stomach. You can take it 3 times a day, 1-2 tablets each time. Eating method 2: when stewing chicken, duck, meat, ribs, soup, etc., add 10 grams of maca slices / 2000 ml of soup 30 minutes before the ceasefire and drink 50 ml / day. Eating method 3: sliced maca and white wine, according to the weight (g):volume (ml) of 1:20 soak 42-56 degrees of white wine for 2 weeks, drinking 25ml / day; after soaking maca can continue to eat according to usage 1. eating method 4: maca slices 2-4 grams (2-3 tablets) with boiling water (insulation cup each time about 300-500 ml) bubble 20 minutes to drink, bubble 4 times after the maca can be directly consumed. Eating method 5: The health consultant of Yuexie Red and Blue will teach you another practice of maca millet porridge, cut the concealed pork into shreds, cook the porridge with yam, dates and millet, and add the dried maca tablets 25 minutes before the porridge is cooked until the porridge is ready. Eating method 6: 30g of dried maca tablets, 10 dates, remove the core of the dates, wash and set aside. pot on the fire, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, add red dates, dried maca tablets, pot with a lid and cook for 30 minutes. Eating method 7: the maca slices, along with the spices at the same time into the pot, slow cooking over moderate heat, so that the nutrients in the maca, spread in the soup at the bottom of the pot, in general, 2-3 people to eat, you can put a complete maca slices. Eating method 8: Mix 1 or more bananas, sesame paste, honey, peanut butter/almond or nut paste juice, with maca powder and milk to eventually make a maca banana shake. This is relatively easy to do and is a way of eating maca that Joyful Red and Blue will often recommend to their clients. How to eat 9: Maca roots are soaked in a vat of water and mixed with many different ingredients, including a pinch of fresh papaya, some condensed milk, and eggs, honey and vanilla, which are stirred continuously to make a delicious maca drink. Eat 10: Maca slices, put into the pure high grain brewed strong white wine, a long time concoction, the active ingredients of Maca fully diffused into the alcohol, a month later, you can directly pour out the white wine that drink (a pound of white wine can be put into 7-10 slices), which is Maca health wine.

Which groups of people are not suitable for eating maca

Infants and children

Although maca can be used as an energy supplement, but the other role of maca, improve human libido and sexuality, this is not suitable for infants and young children to eat, because it may lead to premature maturity of children, from the plant point of view to consider infants and young children can eat maca fresh fruit, but maca essence tablets such health food is not recommended for infants and young children.

Lactating women

Maga has the role of regulating the balance of endocrine, and endocrine disorders will lead to a series of consequences, such as skin roughness, pigmentation, etc., and many women in order to regulate endocrine, the consumption of maga or maga tablets, can effectively regulate the human endocrine to maintain a balance, so as to achieve the role of beauty and beauty. The role of maca indeed, but in the breastfeeding mother is not recommended to eat maca, because maca can enhance libido, and whether the nutritional composition of the maca will have an impact on the breastfeeding mother's milk composition, there is no definitive research to prove that the breastfeeding mother to eat maca its milk has an impact on the fetus, in this case, for insurance purposes, it is not recommended to eat maca.

Pregnant women

During pregnancy, due to the protection of the child, generally stop intercourse, and maca can enhance libido, improve sexual performance, which is not conducive to pregnant women to protect the fetus, on the other hand, there is no clinical evidence that the nutritional composition of maca will not have a bad impact on the fetus, but for insurance purposes, pregnant women are not recommended to eat maca.

Thyroid disease patients

There is a compound called thioglucoside in maca, because there is more or less iodine intake in the diet, and thioglucoside combined with iodine may lead to swelling of the thyroid gland, which will have a series of effects on patients with thyroid disease.

Minors

Experts believe that maca is not suitable for minors to eat, minors in the developmental period, is growing body, it is recommended to eat more nutritious vegetables, fruits, so as to meet the growth needs, in the health sense, as long as the nutrition to keep up, generally can be healthy growth. Maca face the crowd is mainly endocrine disorders, physical decline, easy fatigue of the adult population.