maca and Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

• Maca (Lepidium meyenii) and yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius) in combination with silymarin as food supplements: in vivo safety assessment.

  • 2008-03
  • RCT
  • Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association 46(3)
  • • Katerina Valentová
    • David Stejskal
    • Josef Bartek
    • Svatava Dvorácková
    • Vladimír Kren
    • Jitka Ulrichová
    • Vilím Simánek

  • PubMed: 18054420
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2007.10.031

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  A moderate AST level and diastolic blood pressure increase was found in volunteers using maca (0.6 g/day).

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  0.6 g/day