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[chroncile]

I have dysthmia, and my mood is neutral. I'm not sad or suicidal, but I have no motivation to do anything, poor attention and focus, anhedionia and no sex drive. I also cannot laugh much which is probably because of the anhedionia.

Anyway, I've been taking Maca on and off since this past summer and every time I start taking it, about after 3 days I become a little bit more motivated to do things. For example, I sometimes get a weak desire to go to the gym and exercise. My attention and focus also improve a little bit.

But, my anhedionia and poor sex drive do not improve much and there's very little to no change. I have also noticed that my body hair and beard growth thicker and more populated.

I only took 2 capsules of 500 mg of Maca root everyday. I took them in the morning after breakfast.

Does anyone know why Maca does this to me? I googled Maca's relationship with dopamine and norepinephrine and didn't get any scientific results.

[hippocampus]

Maybe it has something to do with sex hormones. Did you measure them? Did you have any disease or whatever? Maybe you need to increase testosterone and/or lower estrogen or sth like that. Also, check your vitamin D levels - if you are vitamin D deficient, that may cause low testosterone. Or it could be a million of other things ...

[chroncile]

I take 5000 IU of Vitamin D3 every week day and skip the weekends so I'm pretty sure I'm not Vitamin D deficient. I guess it could be because of the sex hormones. I just wish I had a definite answer to this.

[hippocampus]

Well, go to the doctor and measure them.

[Zenfood]

“These results demonstrated that maca extract (250 and 500 mg/kg) showed antidepressant-like effects and was related to the activation of both noradrenergic and dopaminergic systems, as well as attenuation of oxidative stress in mouse brain.”
 

Source: http://www.researchg...ble_Mild_Stress