
A: In the U.S. so many of us seem to have the feeling that “more is better.” When it comes to taking herbal supplements, it’s just not true.
The body teaches us over and over again that what it needs is balance. Like the porridge in the children’s nursery rhyme, it has to be “just right” — it can’t be “too hot” or “too cold.” Therapeutic botanicals can be enormously helpful to our bodies, but especially when they are helping our hormone balance, they have to be “just right.” Too much or too many is overstimulating to the body and will, in most people, produce side effects.
Now the good news for people who are already taking, say, a green juice dry concentrate, that has 10 herbs added to it, is that usually the amounts of the adaptogenic herbs the manufacturer is adding to your green supplement is so tiny that, truly, in most cases it will not make any difference.
But if you start developing side effects while combining Royal Maca, with products that contain tribulus terrestis, ginseng, etc., you might try stopping both Royal Maca and the supplement that has the other adaptogenic botanicals for 3 or 4 weeks and then try reintroducing Royal Maca and see what happens. You might discover that you then have no side effects. If you do, then usually that means that you will need to reduce your dosage of Royal Maca. In a few cases, it could mean that your body does not react well to maca root.