Maca Super
Natural Vitality and Energy with Peruvian Maca
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What is Maca..?
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Maca (Lepidium meyenii ) grows at higher altitudes and has a higher frost tolerance than any other cultivated crop in the world. The tuberous roots of the maca plant can be eaten fresh or dried and stored for later consumption. Maca is a highly nutritious food source that survives at altitudes (up to 4,300 meters) where even potatoes cannot grow. ( Source photo: www.docentes.up.edu.pe)
The powerful plant, cultivated for more than two millennia in the harsh high Andes at altitudes of more than 13,200 feet, is the basis of a nutritional supplement often dubbed Peruvian ginseng which, a study found, can also cut stress, boost energy and well-being and increase fertility.
Twenty years ago agricultural experts declared that maca was in danger of extinction as a domesticated plant... In 1989 the National Research Council of the U.S. labeled maca as one of the "lost crops of the Incas." But recent years have seen a "maca boom" due to pharmaceutical interest in the plant and growing demand for maca in Japan, the U.S. and Europe.
In Peru, dried maca roots are ground to a powder and commonly sold in drugstores as a medicine and food supplement to increase stamina and fertility; maca is also mixed with hard liquor to make a popular "coctel de maca." While increased demand for maca has created new markets and income for Peruvian farmers, US patents may ultimately foreclose opportunity for farmers and indigenous people who are the true innovators of the Andean crop.