Q: I am 38 yr. old and have a regular menstrual period but a period with a lot of problems for the past year. I have been taking Royal Maca (1/3 tsp.) for 3 months to try to normalize my periods and to help with a heavy flow and clots. My last two cycles have achieved this. I just need to know if I should take a break from Royal Maca after a certain amount of time. And, if so, for how long.
A: First of all, Isn’t it remarkable that after only two months of taking Royal Maca your periods have “normalized” in your own words! This is a common story and is one of the many virtues of a premium quality, organic, sundried, precooked maca root product. Although we used to advise taking a break of one month after three months—because that’s what the Peruvian doctors were advising their women patients on maca therapy to do—we no longer suggest this. Reason: too many women had trouble getting the same good results again the second time around after abruptly stopping Maca for an entire month.
Now our advice is the following: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” As long as you are getting great results – 80% improvement in your symptoms, or better – keep on taking Royal Maca on a daily basis. If the improvement in your symptoms begins to diminish after some months, then you can either take a break of one or two days a week – OR you can reduce your dosage. (Don’t do both!) Usually it’s the cumulative effect of maca that makes a dosage that was perfect before no longer perfect. So you need to readjust how you take your Royal Maca.
EXCEPTION: If you are transitioning from perimenopause over into full blown menopause, you may actually need to increase your dosage, as your symptoms become more acute.
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