Is eating maca regularly harmful to the body?

If you take maca frequently, it will definitely be harmful to your body. In most cases, you should not take it for more than three months. This will cause some toxic side effects of maca in your body, thus affecting your original health. Pregnant women should not eat it as it will cause threatened miscarriage.

1. Maca should not be used in high doses for more than three consecutive months. No research has pointed out any possible dangers in the use of maca. Currently, some research experts have conducted research on the side effects and contraindications of maca.

2. Friends who are suffering from internal heat are not recommended to eat maca. Maca contains 55 nutrients needed by the human body and can effectively balance the human dietary nutrition. At the same time, due to its very complete nutritional ingredients, maca may aggravate the symptoms of friends who are suffering from internal heat. However, it is worth noting that as long as the daily intake of maca does not exceed 25 grams, it will not cause internal heat.

3. Patients with hyperthyroidism cannot consume maca. Maca can only be consumed six months after hyperthyroidism is cured.

4. Pregnant women should use with caution. There is currently no authoritative data showing that pregnant and breastfeeding women taking maca will not have any physical effects on the fetus or young children. Therefore, for the sake of caution, pregnant and breastfeeding women may not be suitable for taking maca products.

5. Maca is not suitable for infants and young children. Although maca is a superfood that can quickly replenish a person's energy, another function of maca is to enhance 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.

Maca is a cruciferous plant native to South America. The leaves are oval and the rhizome is shaped like a small round radish. It is edible and is a purely natural food with rich nutrients. It is known as the "South American Ginseng". Maca is rich in high-unit nutrients and has the function of nourishing and strengthening the human body. Maca is native to high-altitude mountainous areas and is suitable for growing in high altitudes, low latitudes, large day-night temperature differences, slightly acidic sandy loam, and land with plenty of sunshine. It is distributed in the Andes Mountains in South America and is artificially cultivated in central and southern Peru, Yunnan and Xinjiang in China, and has a large area of ​​suitable land.