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Maca is an adaptogen whose effects would be better explained by someone other than me, I'm not completely clear on what it does.

I don't know a LOT about maca, but as a female, I definitely like it. It helps in keeping my hormones balanced and prevents me from becoming either progesterone or estrogen dominant. Since it IS an adaptogen, it will tell your body to create more of whatever hormone it may be lacking. So, for us females, it creates more testosterone (this, of course, in addition to balancing estrogen and progesterone). This is a LOT of what causes women to grow larger butts; the increased T helps the body build the butt muscles even with everyday walking, and helps to round and plump the butt.

With males, however, I have heard that it will cause the body to create extra estrogen, since that is what will be naturally lower. That being said, I will not guarantee that the same thing will occur in someone who's already taking estrogenic herbs. Since us females are already increasing our estrogen with NBE, maca can continue to do what it's expected to do, and create more T. However, it's possible that in a biological male taking estrogenic herbs that it might actually register an imbalance and begin creating more T.

Pretty much everything I've heard about maca I've heard from women, so it's impossible for me to say whether or not it might actually be in your best interest.