MacaActive Doctor Comments

Garry P. Gordon, MD, former president of the American College for Advancement in Medicine, bases his appreciation of maca on his own experience with it. Dr. Gordon said, "We all hear rumors about various products like maca. But using this Peruvian root myself, I personally experienced a significant improvement in erectile tissue response. I call it 'nature's answer to Viagra™".

Dr. Garry P. Gordon, concerned about fertility and reproductive problems in today's world, relates: "Society faces a huge problem of dropping sperm count and sex hormone difficulties. But maca promises a nontoxic solution with no downside effects. It's a therapy that offers men and women the chance for hormonal rejuvenation".

"What I see in maca is a means of normalizing our steroid hormones like testosterone, progesterone, and estrogen. Therefore it has facility to forestall the hormonal changes of aging," Dr. Gordon believes. "It acts on men and women to restore them to a healthy functional sexual status in which they experience a more active libido".

Henry Campanile, M.D. a 50 year old specialist in internal and family complementary medicine of St. Petersburg Florida, relates:" one of my patients told me about maca, and I started taking it about a month ago. It is phenomenal! I haven’t felt this good since I was 20 years old. I have so much energy and look so well, my patients have remarket on it and told me how rested I seem. I’ve got so much energy now, that I have started an exercise program".
After trying it out on himself , Dr. Campanile began using maca with its patients. "My first patient to take maca capsules was experiencing hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. She started feeling much better after using this herb for only four days. I am also employing it with patients that have low adrenal function".

A Peruvian pioneer in the therapeutic application of maca integrated into a modern medical practice is Jorge Aguila Calderon, former Chief of the Department of Biological Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Human Medicine at the National University of Federico Villarreal in Lima.
Dr. Aguila Calderon has helped patients with male impotence, male sterility, and female sterility by employing maca therapy. Additional problems he treats with maca are various forms of anemia, climacteric and erectile difficulties in men, premature aging, and general states of weakness such as chronic fatigue.

Dr.Hugo Malaspina, A respected cardiologist in Lima,Peru, is one of the earliest modern pioneers in the therapeutic use of this ancient fertility herb from Peru, and has been using the maca root in his practice for both, male and female patients for a decade.

Dr. Malaspina, recalls that he first heard about this extraordinary herb through a group of elderly gentlemen who, while well along in years were still lively and interested in enjoying sexual activities. One member of this group, (they were all over 70), started taking Maca and found he was able to perform satisfactorily in a sexual relationship with a lady friend.

What makes maca so effective, according to Dr. Malaspina, is that rather than introducing hormones from outside the body, maca encourages the glands to produce the needed hormones. "I have had perhaps 200 female patients whose perimenopausal and postmenopausal symptoms have been alleviated by taking maca".