Organic Red Maca Powder

Name: Organic Red Maca Powder. Fertility. Thyroid. Menopause. Hormone support. Energy. Skin. Health
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Energy
Mood
Libido
Menopause
Caffeine free

$39.00250 g

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What red maca is

Maca is a root vegetable that grows on the high plateau around Lake Junin in the Peruvian Andes, between 3,800 and 4,400 metres, in ground where almost nothing else survives.

It comes out of the soil in a range of colours. They do not do the same things. Red, black and yellow are the three that are traded and studied. Black is the one studied for sperm production and memory. Red is the one with a human trial behind it for mood and energy.

Ours is certified organic, grown in Peru and gelatinised, which means the starch has been broken down so it sits easier on the stomach. It tastes malty and earthy with a caramel edge. It belongs in yoghurt, in smoothies and in anything with cacao in it.

Worth knowing

The colour of maca matters

Maca comes out of the ground red, black or yellow. The research gives each of them a different job. Black is the one studied for sperm production and for memory. Red is the one for mood, female hormones and energy.

In a twelve week randomised trial in Peru, more than 90% of the people taking red maca reported more energy by week twelve and more than 80% reported better mood.

So pick the colour for the job.

What it helps with

Energy, without the caffeine

Maca is not a stimulant. No caffeine, nothing to spike and nothing to crash off.

It works by building you back up over weeks, which is why people take it every morning as a habit rather than reaching for it on a flat afternoon. This is the benefit people report most.

Around twenty amino acids

Maca carries around twenty amino acids, including all nine the body cannot make for itself, alongside plant sterols and the B vitamins.

This is a root vegetable. It has fed people living at four thousand metres for three thousand years.

Mood

For the flatness that sits underneath everything else. Maca is taken for steadier mood and less of the edge, for feeling like yourself again rather than feeling switched on.

Red is the colour studied for this one.

Libido, for women and men

Maca's oldest reputation and the one it is known for worldwide. It is taken for desire that has gone quiet, in women and men both. It does that without putting a hormone into your system.

Menopause and perimenopause

For the energy that drops away, the mood that swings and the libido that vanishes once hormones start shifting.

Maca has been studied in postmenopausal women for exactly that cluster. It changes how women feel without changing their hormones.

It does this without touching your hormones

This is the part most people get wrong about maca. Trials have measured oestrogen, testosterone, LH and FSH before and after. Maca does not move any of them.

Women feel better on it regardless. That makes maca a different proposition from soy or flax. It is why it suits people who want nothing hormonal near them.

Feeling run down and depleted

For the stretch where you are doing too much and running on empty. Maca is a tonic taken through a hard season rather than aimed at one symptom. That is exactly how the Andes have always used it.

Fertility, the traditional use

Maca has been the fertility food of the Peruvian Andes for thousands of years, for women and for men. It is still the first thing a Peruvian will tell you it is for.

That reputation rests on centuries of use rather than on a clinical trial. We would rather say so than dress it up.

How to use

Two ways, one tablespoon a day.

01

In yoghurt
Stir one tablespoon through plain Greek yoghurt.
Add honey and fruit if you like.
Morning or before noon.
02

In a smoothie
Blend one tablespoon into your smoothie.
Banana, cacao, dates, nut butter, oats, any milk you like. Cacao is the best match for it.

Why this maca

Certified organic, grown in Peru at 3,800 to 4,400 metres. That high plateau is the only place maca has ever really grown. The cold and the frost are part of why it works.

Gelatinised, not raw. Raw maca is hard on the stomach. Gelatinising is a heat and pressure step that makes it gentle and lets it dissolve properly instead of sitting on top of your drink. Nothing to do with gelatine, no animal product in it.

One ingredient. No fillers, no sweeteners, nothing added. In a kraft pouch that keeps the light out.

Macamides, found in no other plant

Maca makes a family of compounds called macamides that exist nowhere else in nature. They are built like anandamide, one of the body's own signalling molecules. They are the leading explanation for what maca does to mood and energy.

All nine essential amino acids

There are nine amino acids your body runs on and cannot make. They have to come from food. Maca carries all nine, plus plant sterols and B vitamins.

Glucotropaeolin

Maca is a brassica, related to broccoli and cabbage. It carries the same family of compounds. It carries far more of one of them, glucotropaeolin, than almost any other flowering plant on earth. This is the compound behind the prostate research.

How long before you notice anything

Maca is not a hit. It builds. In the trial the biggest change came between weeks eight and twelve, so give it two months before you decide either way.

The tradition

A root that survived where almost nothing else could

High in the Peruvian Andes, more than 4,000 metres above sea level, the ground is cold, windswept and difficult to farm. Very few crops thrive there. Maca does.

For more than 2,000 years, Andean communities have eaten maca as food and valued it for strength, stamina, energy and fertility.

Its reputation became so established that early historical accounts recorded maca being used for human fertility and for livestock struggling to reproduce at high altitude.

The roots were boiled, made into porridge and dried under the intense Andean sun and freezing nights so they could be stored for long periods.

Modern research later found something remarkable: that traditional drying process changes maca's chemistry and helps create macamides, some of the compounds that make maca chemically distinctive.

People valued maca for strength and vitality centuries before science could explain what was inside it.

The research

What the research shows

Mood and energyTwelve weeks, randomised, placebo controlled, run in Peru at two altitudes. Red maca, black maca or a dummy powder at three grams a day. By week twelve more than 90% of the red maca group reported more energy and more than 80% better mood. Red led on both, which is why it is the colour we point people to for this.
HormonesMeasured again and again, then left alone. Oestradiol, testosterone, LH, FSH and prolactin do not move on maca, in men or in postmenopausal women. Whatever maca is doing, it is not doing it hormonally.
MenopauseIn postmenopausal women, six weeks of maca improved anxiety, depression and sexual function against placebo, with no change to their hormones and no oestrogenic activity found in the laboratory.
LibidoStudied in men and in women. Several trials report higher sexual desire, again with no change in testosterone.
Prostate, in ratsRed maca reduced prostate enlargement dose dependently. In that study it outperformed finasteride. Unlike finasteride it left the rest of the reproductive tract untouched. Rats, not men.
Bone, in ratsRed and black maca both protected bone structure in rats that had lost their oestrogen. They did it without the changes to the uterus that oestrogen itself caused.

What you receive

Ingredients: 100% pure gelatinised red maca powder
Weight: 250 g
Origin: Peru, grown between 3,800 and 4,400 m
Certification: Certified organic, ethically harvested
Processing: Gelatinised, easier to digest than raw
Packaging: Recyclable kraft pouch with freshness window
Additives: No fillers, no sweeteners, no additives

Before you start

Do not take maca if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. There is no safety data either way. Speak to your doctor first if you have a hormone sensitive condition, including breast, ovarian or uterine cancer. Maca is a brassica and carries the same compounds as broccoli and cabbage, in higher amounts. If you have a thyroid condition, check with your doctor before taking it daily.

Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Sold as a food, not a medicine.