(01-11-2014, 21:00)Odile Wrote: Hi Sunny68,
Related with that question about people saying that MACA increases testosterone...
I've been reaserching and i've read that MACA increases DHEA and cortisol, and DHEA increases testosterone. And DHEA may cause decreased breast size in women. That's why some women take herbs to promote aromatase, to help the conversion of testosterone into estrogen (estrone and estradiol). Estrone seems to be the predominant estrogen in postmenopausal women and to be a carcinogen... Estradiol is important for normal breast development. Cortisol seems to have a opposite interation with progesterone, so with stress you will produce cortisol and in order to produce cortisol the body will use progesterone and this will increase the estrogen dominance of a woman. But i've read here in the forum that cortisol supresses estrogen...
i'm so confuse!! ://
Well if MACA is an adaptogen should it increase DHEA?
This diagram explains it a littitle easier, DHEA benefits men more than women, (still, its risky even for men) the pathway ends up at DHT, supplemention with DHEA could result in deeper voice, acne, increased facial hair for women, balding in men.
Although it's not all bad news, DHEA does have health benefits, you just have to be ultra conservative, like 25 to 50 mg. at a time for a few times per month, of course everybody's different, so YMMV.
DHEA
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/331.html