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Yes Rosance,
You can take the oils continuously, unless the flax seed oil is with lignans (not cold pressed). In that case, stay below the stalling dose (500 mg/day), and take less in the second half of your cycle.
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So Isabelle,
Are you recommending Maca for someone like me (Transgendered)? Early On with NBE or waiting until I "flower" more?
Rebekah
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Not immediately, Rebekah,
Make sure all the hormones are tuned right: less hair loss or acne, some fat redistribution, so you're confident that the balance between DHT and estrogens is right. Then take maca to accelerate the way things are going.
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Isabelle,
Hmm, thats a tough one.. I have definitely had a 90% hair loss secession as well as fat redistribution (I notice even today that my waist looks more narrower like a hour glass shape and my hips alittle wider and of course my breasts have grown..
The acne on the other hand has worsen. I feel like a teenager all over again.. Alot on my back and one or two on my nose and face, as well as a few on my upper arms and chest area. I have always had back acne problems even before taking NBE stuff but it does feel like I have gotten more acne right now..
Any suggestions here...
Rebekah
(21-01-2012, 04:20)Isabelle Wrote: Not immediately, Rebekah,
Make sure all the hormones are tuned right: less hair loss or acne, some fat redistribution, so you're confident that the balance between DHT and estrogens is right. Then take maca to accelerate the way things are going.
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Hi Rebekah,
Don't start maca before the acne is under control. Try an anti-androgen, like SP, barley grass, borage oil, or spearmint tea. Many other NBE herbs have anti-androgens in them: hops, PM, flax, and WY.
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Hi Isabelle,
I am currently taking 2250 mgs of SP and 1000 mgs of Hops for the past two months and still having Acne issues...
Rebekah
(26-01-2012, 15:09)Isabelle Wrote: Hi Rebekah,
Don't start maca before the acne is under control. Try an anti-androgen, like SP, barley grass, borage oil, or spearmint tea. Many other NBE herbs have anti-androgens in them: hops, PM, flax, and WY.
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Hi Rebekah,
Hops will work better as an anti-androgen between meals, but even then, 1000 mg is low. I would double it.
For SP, the dose depends on whether it's an extract, or just the powdered dried berries in a capsule. In the first case, a good dose is 600 mg, in the second case, try 3,000 mg.
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DareIask?.)
Hi Isabelle,
As a biological female, I am desperately trying increase my curves. I have been taking flax, msm, and doing massage. I would love to increase my hips and fill my breast out which are very flat at the top
(pics posted) and shapeless
. Do you think that taking maca will help build more muscle in my hips and backside and my bust? I don't' really want to build too much muscle in my bust and lose the fatty breast tissue, but I am just at a lost as I am very wary of experimenting with hormone mimicking herbs.
Btw, I have no progress to report so I have not posted any new pics.
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Yes DareIask?,
Maca will help build some muscle, and some fat too.
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Thanks Isabelle. Do I have to be concerned with putting on unwanted pounds though? If anything, I want to lose around the waste and love handles.
