{"id":136,"date":"2009-01-15T07:55:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/maca.php"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:25:20","slug":"maca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/maca\/","title":{"rendered":"Maca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as &#8220;Peruvian Ginseng.&#8221;\u00a0Maca is the\u00a0tuberous root\u00a0of a South American plant, Lepidium meyenii.\u00a0 Maca is used both as a vegetable and medicinal food\u00a0to improve libido and fertility.\u00a0 Maca is highly nutritious, and has been shown to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/1472-6882\/6\/23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve memory\/learning and depression\u00a0in animal experiments<\/a>. It also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18784609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">positive effects on menopausal symptoms via non-hormonal mechanisms<\/a>. One variety, black maca, also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16174556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased sperm count and motility in rats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maca is often added to &#8220;male enhancement&#8221; products, although the doses are generally too low for any significant effects.<\/p>\n<p>See &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/vitamins\/maca-root.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maca Root\/Herb and its Benefits&#8221; for more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as &#8220;Peruvian Ginseng.&#8221;\u00a0Maca is the\u00a0tuberous root\u00a0of a South American plant, Lepidium meyenii.\u00a0 Maca is used both as a vegetable and medicinal food\u00a0to improve libido and fertility.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[434,608,611,627,635,645,651,652,746],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}