Yahoo.com August 16, 2001

Sex Drive Flagging? Pop the 'Miracle' Maca

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - It looks like a tiny brown turnip, has a strong smell and what some consider a disgusting taste, but Peru's ``miracle'' maca can boost your sex drive by up to 200 percent, according to a study presented on Wednesday.

The powerful plant, cultivated for more than two millennia in the harsh high Andes at altitudes of more than 13,200 feet, is the basis of a nutritional supplement often dubbed ``Peruvian ginseng'' which, the study found, can also cut stress, boost energy and well-being and increase fertility.

Scientist Gustavo Gonzales of Peru's Cayetano Heredia University, who led what the scientists say is the world's first study into maca's effect on humans, told a news conference the three-month trial involving 12 volunteer men pointed to an 180-200 percent lift in libido and up to a doubling of sperm production.

The study -- funded by Peruvian pharmaceuticals company Hersil, using the high-tech maca pill it developed with La Molina National Agrarian University -- also found maca reduced blood pressure and had no adverse effect on the heart.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), August 17, 2001

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Oh good. More horny, fertile men. What does this root do for WOMEN?

-- helen (involve@the.dea), August 17, 2001.

Helen, If you have to ask that question it will not effect you at all. ;^)

-- So (cr@t.es), August 17, 2001.

Sock it to me tiny brown turnip breath.

-- (lorelei@looking for.love), August 17, 2001.

yummmmmmm, turnips 1 of my favorites

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), August 18, 2001.