Hormonal balancer: Lepidium meyenii helps the individual in long term by assisting the endocrine system to maintain steroid hormones in healthy levels.
In fact, Lepidium meyenii’s stimulates the glands in charge of regulating hormones, the pituitary, which controls the ovaries and testes, but also act on the adrenals and on the pancreas and thyroid as well.
By doing so, Lepidium meyenii nourishes the body and promotes its natural ability to normalize the levels of steroid hormones such as estrogen, progesterone & testosterone.
When these hormones are correctly balanced, the whole body reaches in optimal functioning leading to a sensation of wellness.
The most impressive property of Lepidium meyenii is that it does not contain hormones itself. Instead it provides a unique set of nutrients that directly fuel the endocrine and help the glands to produce vital hormones in precise dosages predetermined by one's own body.
Scientists and doctors are now finding Lepidium meyenii to be one of the best natural ways to regulated and support endocrine health. This action regulates metabolism, energy levels, growth, sexual development and the sense of well being and attitude.
The scientist responsible for most of the current knowledge of the maca plant is Dr. Glioria Chacon de Popivici Ph.D , a Peruvian biologist trained at the University of San Marcos, in Lima, Peru. Dr. Chacon wrote her dissertation in the early l960's on the maca root, and did groundbreaking work on the plant by discovering a new species. By analyzing its chemical actives, she pinpointed their hormonal effects, Dr. Chacon also authored a book describing the root's nourishing micronutrients: La importancia de Lepidium peruvianum Chacon (Maca) en la Alimentacion y Salud del ser Humano y Animal 2,000 Ados Antes y Despues de Cristo y en el Siglo. Published in Lima, in 1997, the book is a definitive study on maca and discusses its use from 8000 BC to the present and into the 21st century.
Dr. Chacon says that Lepidium meyenii works in a fundamentally different way that HRT promoting optimal functioning of the hypothalamus and the pituitary, thereby improving the functioning of all the endocrine glands responsible of producing your own human hormones.
But this occurs naturally, not with time-bomb drugs, which throw the entire body into a dangerous state of confusion. "Rather than hormone replacement therapy (HRT), millions of women are putting their faith in a remedy which has been used for 2,000 years, which is safe and amazingly effective: a cruciferous herb from Peru, called Lepidium meyenii".
Dr. Chacon discovered Lepidium meyenii’s properties for stimulating endocrine system through several studies which helped her deduce that its herbal components were acting on the hypothalamus-pituitary glands. This also explains why the effects in humans are not limited to ovaries and testes, but also act on the adrenals, giving a feeling of greater energy and vitality, and on the pancreas and thyroid as well.
Dr. Chacon de Popovici, Ph.D., Reprinted from Nature & Health magazine. |
