subject: The Health Benefits Of The Maca Root [print this page] You could be amazed to find out there is a vegetable that looks like a turnip that is being hailed as natural cure for migraine headaches. Migraine headaches are excruciating and can send yo to your bed during an episode which often lasts for two to five hours a shot, in some cases, even longer. Not just limited to being a pain in the head, migraines can also induce nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to bright lights.
There are various causes of migraine headaches that include allergies, caffeine, nicotine, irregular sleeping patterns, stress and a sedentary lifestyle. The actual pain of a migraine is created when blood vessels in the brain start to contract excessively. Hormonal imbalances can also result in migraine headaches, especially if progesterone or estrogen levels dip.
Exposure to toxic heavy metals and other harmful chemicals that are found in many aspects of our environment have also been discovered by recent studies as clear triggers to migraine headaches. Consuming foods that have been grown using pesticides and chemical fertilizers is one of the best ways to become toxic and "scramble" our hormonal system. Women are twice as likely to suffer migraines as men.
So lets move on to the good news. The many studies that have analyzed maca have found that maca is superfood and also a powerful adaptogen. Adaptogens are natural products that impact upon our hormones and glands in a healthy way to improve overall health and well being.
Maca root is a vegetable that only grows very high up in the Andes mountain range. Its nutritional profile is both rich and extensive and features almost all of the vitamins we need, more than 25 essential minerals, 7 essential amino acids, loads of fiber, essential fatty acids and many healthy plant sterols which all combine to feed our hormonal system what it needs to function at its best. Even though we do not have access to the fresh vegetable because of its limited area of growth, maca powdered supplements are available and the most popular way that Maca is consumed outside of South America.
One set of glands that respond very well to maca supplements are the adrenal glands. This is good to know because the stress hormones are a common cause of migraine headaches and the adrenal glands are the glands that create and release stress hormones into the body. Maca genuinely helps to calm our emotions and our bodies (and relieve migraines in the same stroke) by "calming down" the amount of stress hormones created by the adrenal glands.
To achieve the utmost health benefits of maca powder supplements you will need to buy a product of great quality. Products that are certified organic by the USDA are the way to go. Organic products also meet fair trade standards and give you the piece of mind that you are not supporting slave labor in South America!
