Summary: Although maca is good, it may cause side effects. If overdose, then it may lead to goiter; if they do not have endocrine problems and consumption may lead to endocrine disorders; allergic people can also lead to allergies when consuming maca. Therefore, although maca is "South American ginseng", but there are several categories of people can not eat. First of all, pregnant women, infants, lactating women can not eat, in addition to thyroid disease and allergic people should not eat. Here is the detailed knowledge. Maca side effects

1, leading to goiter

Maca contains thioglucoside compounds, if combined with a low iodine diet overdose, may lead to swelling of the thyroid gland.

2, lead to allergies

Many people are very easy to allergies, allergies are mainly caused by allergens, and everyone's allergens are different, such as some people are allergic to a certain kind of flower allergy, allergy symptoms include: mouth, lips or throat with itching, tingling or swelling; rashes, skin redness, swelling, itching; diarrhea or vomiting; runny nose or nasal congestion, redness of the eyes, pain or watery eyes; Difficulty swallowing; coughing, wheezing, difficulty breathing, stiff joints, fainting, and shock are all symptoms of allergies, and maca can be an allergen for some people.

3, lead to skin problems

Because maca will increase hormone secretion, so teenagers, infants and young children are not suitable for eating maca, maca will lead to teenagers acne and other skin diseases.

4, lead to endocrine disruption

Magua is suitable for people with endocrine imbalance, if the endocrine normal on the need to take magua, because magua may increase hormone secretion, leading to endocrine imbalance, so the ancient saying that no disease do not take medicine is very reasonable.

5, leading to nausea and stomach upset

This is mainly different from person to person, with the gastrointestinal condition has a lot to do.

6, leading to fire

The people who are on fire eating maca will lead to aggravation of fire, the amount must be controlled, good things but also moderate intake.

Macha's contraindication crowd

1, infants and young children

Take the role of maca can play a very good, can help us protect the kidney health, and nourishing effect is also very strong, but although the maca itself contains a wealth of energy and substances, but because of which contains the active substances will have to promote the role of the hormone honey, infants and young children to eat it will be very easy to Precocious puberty occurs, affecting physical development and mental health, generally speaking, or to adults taking maca is better.

2, lactating women

We all know that the normal endocrine directly affects a woman's skin condition and emotional problems, but the substances inside the maca if passed through the milk to the baby, then it will have an impact on the baby's health, so we are in order to be safe, or do not eat maca better.

3, pregnant women

Taking maca can help us to improve libido, but generally in pregnancy during the female friends need to avoid sex in early pregnancy and late pregnancy, mid-pregnancy can be appropriate, but can not be too intense or can not be too frequent, so pregnant women are best not to eat maca and related products.

4, patients with thyroid disease

Maca has a compound called thioglucoside, due to dietary more or less some iodine intake, and thioglucoside combined with iodine may lead to thyroid swelling, which will have a series of effects on patients with thyroid disease.