In the midst of constant stress, whether from pollution, exercise, or emotional pressure, we all take a beating and wear down our immune system and energy levels. That's why we need to be supplementing with more than synthetic vitamins, or even healthy whole food sources of vitamins and minerals...

We need ADAPTOGENS, which give us a big leg up on adapting to stress, instead of just trying to clean up the mess it leaves.

Dr. Hans Seyle, in his Nobel prize winning work on General Adaptation Syndrome, described how the human organism adapts to stress and the stages it passes through when the stress goes unmodified. In his work he described how adaptogens work on the human organism and promote its well being even when the stress goes unmitigated.

This means that certain substances have the ability to work positively on your body even while negative influences attack your body. In today's world, adaptogens take on a greater significance because almost all of us live under continual stress.

Like Ginsing, Maca functions perfectly as an adaptogen... While the term adaptogen may be unknown in the Andes mountains, the Andean people are no stranger to maca's adaptogenic qualities. Andean folk medicine tradition describes how maca helps the highlanders thrive at high altitudes of 14,000 - 18,000 feet above sea level where oxygen levels in the blood are lower (putting the body under greater stress). Is it any wonder that Peruvian maca possesses several qualities that can help support the transport of oxygen in the blood?

As it grows, maca extracts nutrients and energy from the sun, soil, and air to create more than 60 phytonutrients and store them in its tissue. These nutrients include unique alkaloids which increase the body's endocrine and immune function and permit maximum absorbtion of the very nutrients contained in the root!

Thank goodness for this incredible gift from earth and the ancients!