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Does maca raise testosterone?
No effect on any of the hormones measured, testosterone included.
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What the human studies found
- A root grown high in the Andes. Tested in a 12-week, placebo-controlled trial.
- The same research team also reported that men taking maca had more sexual desire, and the paper’s title spells out its “absent relationship” with testosterone. So maca might do something, just not through testosterone.
The studies (2)
The anchor source is a 2024 systematic review by a team of urologists (Morgado et al., International Journal of Impotence Research). They looked at 52 studies covering 27 proposed testosterone boosters. Their conclusion: most fail to increase total testosterone.
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