TRT, Maca and Hematocrit/Hemoglobin

GreenMachineX

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Looks like Maca can reduce hemoglobin and hematocrit when elevated. Any chance it’ll reduce elevated levels in TRT induced erythrocytosis?

“Ovariectomized rats showed significant (P<0.05) increase in red blood cells (RBC) count with administration of Maca-GO (Tables (Tables3a3a and and3b),3b), resulting in significant (P<0.05) lowering RBC to the level observed in rats with ovaries intact. This was accompanied by significant (P<0.05) reduction in hemoglobin and hematocrit levels, while concentration of both hemoglobin in red cells and total serum Fe significantly increased as a result of Maca-Go intake by ovariectomized rats only, while in rats with intact ovaries, contents of serum Fe was significantly (P<0.05) reduced. All levels recorded in blood morphology were within ranges considered as physiologically-normal for rats according to Altman & Dittmer (30) and Saitoch et al. (31).”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...4/#!po=64.6067

“Black maca and, in smaller proportions, red maca reduced hemoglobin levels only in highlanders with abnormally high hemoglobin levels; neither variety of maca reduced hemoglobin levels in lowlanders.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27548190/
 
Well, I’m going to try it. Just ordered some black Maca caps, and as of today, my hemoglobin is 17.4, and hematocrit is 50.5. I’ll test again in a month and at 2 months.

For the record, I’m on 50mg twice per week test cyp, and haven’t donated in 3 months. This keeps my total T at 550, free T at 19 (9-25 range) and sensitive e2 17. I’d like to be able to bump that test dose a little higher.
 

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