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Shatavari and Maca side effects

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(01-11-2015, 18:55)ellacraig Wrote:  
(01-11-2015, 13:46)surferjoe2007 Wrote:  Cold, period issues, sweaty, shaky and sick: The herbs & PC are overloading your nutritional resources. Plus even without the herbs your profile shows related past issues. So worsening them with herbs isn't a surprise: Diverting the already poor resources that went to them to your breasts instead is probably a bad idea.
Acne: PC increased testosterone, maybe maca a little too.

For nutrition I suggest large amounts of whole grains for the bulk of your diet, especially brown rice or rice bran (made from brown rice). Spinach, cilantro, brocolli or parsley are nice too. Also large amounts. Either way you can't just eat a little and then feel like you're eating healthy; it actually has to replace a large portion of what you eat. Multivites or multi-Bs aren't enough either, but a multi-B is better than nothing. Just don't go over about 300% RDI on any vitamin from a pill or it could make your nutrition worse for the vitamins that aren't on the label. This is not an issue with food, because it also has the other vitamins not on the pill bottle's label.

I also suggest a low dose or very low dose of PC for now and stopping the maca altogether. An anti-androgen is good too, as long as you're taking PC.

After your nutrition improves, health improves, and you no longer respond negatively to herbs and PC: Go back to large dose PC, shatavari and an anti-androgen. Test your hormone levels to make sure you don't overdo the progesterone and end up progesterone dominant instead. Once the estrogen dominance is gone reduce the PC and add a phytoestrogen such as PM. For any other phytoestrogen besides PM use very little PC or it could overwhelm the herb (after you are no longer estrogen dominant).
Since your into nutrition you say, could you post up a thread which isolates what foods/superfoods supply which vitamins/minerals etc ones essential for overall health ie like you promote rice bran etc and oysters and mushrooms in the past.
Having read a disturbing article yesterday about the risks of going over RDI's of certain vitamens its scared me. Ive asked similar before, but maybe to put this info up in a dedicated thread might keep it up there if you will. Cheers.

I have made a thread with a list of many of the healthiest foods if you want to search my old posts. There isn't any single one for a single vitamin or mineral; it's the combination of vitamins and minerals. For example spinach might be the best one because it supplies a good amount of a wide variety. But you can use this to help find a food highest in 1 to 3 nutrients: http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000124000000000000000.html (set to zinc as an example). It also lets you look up the nutrient content of a food. Zinc, vitamin E, B6 and essential fatty acids (ALA, EPA and DHA) are some of the hardest to get nutrients. But there are many others too both with RDIs and without RDIs, so it's far better to get food sources than to take pills for these. Vitamin E pills are in fact completely worthless for almost all health concerns because they only have alpha tocopherol and are missing other tocopherols and tocotrienols. Antioxidants are hard to get too and aren't listed. To get a complete source your only major options AFAIK are rice bran (or large amounts of brown rice), turmeric, spirulina, chia seeds and maybe large amounts of spinach since it's good to eat lots of spinach for other nutrients anyway.

Going far over the RDI on a vitamin pill is bad because it reduces your other nutrients a little, and because unlike food it does not contain these other nutrients. Other than that it's harmless. It is extremely difficult if not impossible to actually harm yourself with a vitamin or mineral. You would have to spend hundreds of dollars on vitamin pills for one specific vitamin. You usually can't do it with the water soluble vitamins and for the fat soluble ones you need around 20 times the RDI for 60-90 days. Over 1 thousand doses. This is to get the toxic amount. Exceeding the recommended upper limit is merely less than ideal, not toxic. Watch out for scare articles; they tend to exaggerate. Double check with studies and other sources.

The bigger danger is to be missing a nutrient because you got your nutrients from pills instead of food. This can be much more harmful long term leading to heart disease, cancer and many lesser issues too. But it's indirectly harmful, due to what you didn't get rather than what you got.
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Messages In This Thread
Shatavari and Maca side effects - by calilove236 - 30-10-2015, 18:20
RE: Shatavari and Maca side effects - by hannah - 30-10-2015, 21:51
RE: Shatavari and Maca side effects - by EllaC - 31-10-2015, 00:37
RE: Shatavari and Maca side effects - by surferjoe2007 - 01-11-2015, 13:46
RE: Shatavari and Maca side effects - by EllaC - 01-11-2015, 18:55
RE: Shatavari and Maca side effects - by surferjoe2007 - 01-11-2015, 19:51
RE: Shatavari and Maca side effects - by calilove236 - 08-11-2015, 05:32
RE: Shatavari and Maca side effects - by EllaC - 08-11-2015, 05:37
RE: Shatavari and Maca side effects - by surferjoe2007 - 08-11-2015, 21:26



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