17-03-2012, 05:25 AM
No problem Sarah,
Don't break. Just take the milk thistle along with the rest, just don't take more than 250 mg. If you're worried about your liver, consider FG.
Meanwhile, I'm in doubt about the double dose of maca.
I'm amazed by how quick the results of my maca experiment were to disappear into thin air. True, I lost weight fast. But I'm doubting whether my high maca dose adds anything to breast or butt size at the moment. The maca is doing something: libido is embarrassingly high, my otherwise regular sleep pattern is completely disturbed, and each time I go for a walk, I'm tempted to make it two hours instead of twenty minutes. For some reason, I also tend to adopt a revisionist view on just about anything in my life, which may of course be the very reason why I doubt the value of this maca experiment.
So what does maca really do?
I used to be skeptical about the amount of evidence that supports maca meeting the criteria for being called an adaptogen:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=11015&pid=43660#pid43660
but more evidence has been added since then. Maca is a hot topic in scientific literature right now.
The wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maca
suggests maca restores hormone deficiencies because of its nutritional qualities. So it must either increase cholesterol, or increase Luteinizing Hormone (LH) so more pregnenolone is made from cholestrol, or increase pregnenolone in another way. I've never read anything about maca increasing pregnenolone, though.
Maca does increase estrogen in ovariectomized rats, but not testosterone or cholesterol:
http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOT...824011.htm
In studies that find effects of maca and include measuring LH, no effect on LH is found:
http://journals.lww.com/menopausejournal...on.24.aspx
http://content.karger.com/produktedb/pro...doi=264618
So I'm thinking of finishing this experiment, then finishing the maca stock, and then quitting maca altogether. In my program, it does nothing that oats couldn't do, or maybe soy.
Don't break. Just take the milk thistle along with the rest, just don't take more than 250 mg. If you're worried about your liver, consider FG.
Meanwhile, I'm in doubt about the double dose of maca.
I'm amazed by how quick the results of my maca experiment were to disappear into thin air. True, I lost weight fast. But I'm doubting whether my high maca dose adds anything to breast or butt size at the moment. The maca is doing something: libido is embarrassingly high, my otherwise regular sleep pattern is completely disturbed, and each time I go for a walk, I'm tempted to make it two hours instead of twenty minutes. For some reason, I also tend to adopt a revisionist view on just about anything in my life, which may of course be the very reason why I doubt the value of this maca experiment.
So what does maca really do?
I used to be skeptical about the amount of evidence that supports maca meeting the criteria for being called an adaptogen:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=11015&pid=43660#pid43660
but more evidence has been added since then. Maca is a hot topic in scientific literature right now.
The wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maca
suggests maca restores hormone deficiencies because of its nutritional qualities. So it must either increase cholesterol, or increase Luteinizing Hormone (LH) so more pregnenolone is made from cholestrol, or increase pregnenolone in another way. I've never read anything about maca increasing pregnenolone, though.
Maca does increase estrogen in ovariectomized rats, but not testosterone or cholesterol:
http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOT...824011.htm
In studies that find effects of maca and include measuring LH, no effect on LH is found:
http://journals.lww.com/menopausejournal...on.24.aspx
http://content.karger.com/produktedb/pro...doi=264618
So I'm thinking of finishing this experiment, then finishing the maca stock, and then quitting maca altogether. In my program, it does nothing that oats couldn't do, or maybe soy.