America's National Health Institute has found that using HRT doubles the risk of developing Alzheimers Disease. The same body last year found HRT increases the risk of heart attack, breast cancer and stroke.
Not good news for the 55 million women now entering or already in menopause. But read on.
Consider that the HRT's are an extreme answer to an extreme problem. This "problem" is the constellation of health issues that surround menopause - hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue and low libido. And of course a woman's risk of heart disease and osteoporosis. Consider now that these health issues, including hot flashes, are NOT NORMAL! Women have accepted them as ordinary and usual ...but they are not normal or even necessary.
Women live out their lives from childhood on under extreme stress. By the time they enter perimenopause their hormone production is wheezing under the strain of having to produce gallons of cortisol, adrenalin and insulin - just to name a few of her hormones other than estrogen and progesterone. Her reproductive hormones have always been considered last - both by women and by Mother Nature. Afterall - why would Mother Nature, in all her wisdom, want a stressed out, overworked, fatigued, moody woman to bear children? And so nature puts reproductive processes on a back burner and takes care of the immediate problems women face everyday. That is when women begin suffering form "Hormonal Malnutition". This state of diminished reproductive hormone production can cause PMS, hot flashes, night sweats, low libido, fatigue and even infertility Our reproductive hormones are paying the price for all our stress expenditures!
Is there an answer? Is it too late? Do we have to risk our health and use HRT? The answers are "yes", "no" and "no".
While there is no one simple answer for hormonal problems we do have one major answer to the problem of hot flashes, night sweats and the other symptoms of "Hormonal Malnutrition."
Maca is an ordinary enough looking plant that grows under extraordinary conditions at 13,500 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains. Not only does this hearty little plant grow but it thrives on thousands of acres of fields in Junin.
When maca was first used for fertility in the high altitudes of the Andes Mountains it was an accident. It just so happened that maca was the only food around in one of the mountainous regions. It was noted that the people who lived there, and their livestock, were able to reproduce without problems. Other Andeans soon began buying maca and using it to conceive and to increase their herds. Why did this herb work? The maca plant is densely nutritious. It tells the body to produce it's own hormones rather than trying to replace them with an outside source (such as a phytoestrogen like Black cohosh, or medication like HRT). So the body produces healthy levels of its' own hormones because it thinks it's eating right -and it is! Maybe for the first time!
It wasn't until 1960 that the active ingredients in maca were studied. It was discovered that the maca plant contained some very unique properties. Soon MD's in Lima were giving it to women for infertility and menopause hot flashes. The results were wonderful. In the 1990's maca was brought to the United States and in 1997 Stephanie Sulger began introducing it to the medical community here. Since then, through the efforts of Medicine Plants, maca has been presented at the United Nations and the American Psychiatric Association for consideration as an alternative to medications.
Maca is now sold around the world. Medicine Plants manufactures MACA750 in their GMP facility, as a pure ground, organic root in a 750mg. vegetable capsule. Their product is grown only where the land is fallow for at least five years. The growers honor their farming techniques and never use pesticides, or chemicals in the cultivation of this great plant. The Peruvians call maca, "the best plant in the world."
Feeding your hormonal system correctly is not just about taking an herb. While most women feel the beneficial effects of MACA750 immediately we encourage you to examine your other health practices. Avoid stimulating foods such as chocolate and caffeine. Foods that are low on the Glycemic Index (go to www.GlycemicIndex.com) will reduce the amount of insulin and adrenalin your body produces and will allow your reproductive hormones to become stable and balanced.
It is well - known that stress can trigger a hot flash. Deep breathing, yoga, Tai Chi and meditation can help to stabilize fluctuating hormone levels.
So, while MACA750 will go a long way in reducing the effects of stress on your body you need to also take responsibility for your own health behaviors. You may always contact us at HealthSupport@medicine-plants.com for more information about "Hormonal Malnutrition" and ask us to design a hormonal health program for you.
You may order MACA750 from our website: www.medicine-plants.com. Medicine Plants has online health support 24/7.
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