What are the side effects of maca?

The health benefits of maca are very high, and it is recognized that it can effectively help us improve our body's immunity, relieve the problems of kidney deficiency and mental weakness, and also help relieve male impotence and premature ejaculation. However, the use of maca by the following groups of people is not good for their health and will bring side effects. Therefore, before using maca, everyone should pay attention to these issues, especially for infants and young children.

Infants and young children: Although maca is a superfood that can quickly replenish a person's energy, another function of maca is to increase a person's sexual desire and sexual ability, which is not suitable for infants and young children because it may cause precocious puberty in children. From a plant perspective, infants and young children can eat fresh maca fruit, but health foods such as maca essence tablets are not recommended for infants and young children.

Breastfeeding women: Maca can regulate and balance the endocrine system. Endocrine disorders can lead to a series of consequences, such as rough skin, pigmentation, etc. In order to regulate the endocrine system, many women consume maca or maca essence tablets, which can effectively regulate the human endocrine system to keep it balanced, thereby achieving the effect of beauty and skin care. Maca does have this effect, but it is not recommended for breastfeeding mothers to eat maca because maca can enhance sexual desire, and whether the nutrients in maca will affect the composition of breastfeeding mothers' milk, there is currently no definite research to prove whether breastfeeding mothers eating maca will have an effect on the fetus. In this case, to be on the safe side, it is not recommended to eat maca.

Pregnant women: refers to women who are pregnant. During pregnancy, they generally stop having sex for the protection of the child. Maca can enhance sexual desire and improve sexual ability, which is not conducive to pregnant women to protect the fetus. On the other hand, there is currently no clinical proof that the nutritional components of maca will not have a bad effect on the fetus, but to be on the safe side, pregnant women are not recommended to eat maca or giant green maca essence tablets.

Maca is not suitable for infants and young children, because it can effectively increase a person's sexual desire and sexual ability. For infants and young children, it can easily lead to precocious puberty. Pregnant or breastfeeding mothers should not consume it indiscriminately, because it may affect the composition of the mother's milk during breastfeeding, which will also have adverse effects on the baby.