Lepidium Meyenii Extract
Lepidium meyenii, also called maca, is a vegetable belonging to the broccoli family. It resembles a turnip and has a history of being used as an aphrodisiac.
Maca is an herbaceous biennial plant of the crucifer family native to the high Andes of Peru around Lake Junin, It is used as a root vegetable, a medicinal herb, and a supposed aphrodisiac. Its Spanish and Quechua names include maca-maca, maino, ayak chichira, and ayak willku. Introduced to other parts of Peru or foreign countries, it did not obtain satisfactory results caused by stunted growth. In china, the main planting area of maca is located at Yunnan Province.
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Specification: 1% Macamide; Gelatinized Maca powder; Ratio extracted maca(4:1)
Botanical Name: Lepidium meyenii Walp.
Characters: Powder
Color: Yellow brown powder
Odour: Characteristic
Mesh: 80
Loss on drying %: ≤5.0%
The noncaloric bioactives found in Maca:
Macaridine and Maca alkaloids that are exclusive to Maca
Macaenes which are Maca-exclusive unsaturated fatty acids and include
Macamides, which are amine derivatives of the Macaenes; some include n-benzylhexadecanamide and n-benzyloctadecanamide and range from 0.0016 to 0.0123% dry weight (low content)
Lepidine A and B, two imidazole alkaloids with the names 1,3-dibenzyl-4,5-dimethylimidazolium chloride and 1,3-dibenzyl-2,4,5-trimethylimidazolium chloride; respectively
Glucosinolates such as glucoalyssin (0.6-0.9% total glucosinolates), glucosinalbin (0.02-0.028% total glucosinolates), glucobrassicanapin, glucobrassicin, glucoaubrietin (aka. glucolimnathin; 6-6.2% total glucosinolates), 4-methoxyglucobrassicin, glucotropaeolin (80-90% total glucosinolates), and Benzyl glucosinolate (7.01-17.5mg/100g dry weight of Red Maca) with aromatic glucosinolates consisting of up to 99% of total glucosinolates by weight with no significant differences between ecotypes.
7 alkamides
Methyltetrahydro-β-Carboline molecules such as MTCA in the butanolic fraction
Beta-Sitosterol
Recommended dosage, active amounts, other details
The standard dose for maca is 1,500-3,000mg.
Maca can be supplemented by eating maca root, or through a maca extract. Extracts should be water or ethyl acetate-based.
Maca should be taken daily, alongside food.
Traditionally, maca is treated as a food product, rather than a dietary supplement. Animal studies use 1,000-2,200mg/kg bodyweight doses of maca, which translates into:
10.9-24g of the maca vegetable for a 150lb person
14.5-32g of the maca vegetable for a 200lb person
18.1-40g of the maca vegetable for a 250lb person
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