Comment · Mon, August 8, 2022 · ND Owner
No dosing games?
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salamanta · 17 points
What does this mean? It is dangerous to play with dosages? (Sorry, not native englisch speaker :) )
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iSybr · 3 points
Seems like it would equal even more: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.1c02926This study found 3mg Macamides per 1g of air dried maca.The ND extract is standardized to 5% Macamides so that would be 10mg in a 200mg capsule. This means that one 200mg capsule is equal to 3.33g of maca powder.
Edit: Forgot the decimal point
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Ohh no, there is not that much in regular maca. From the study you linked.
It is apparent from Table 3 that there were only three macamides and one fatty acid detected with very low contents (3.97–34.36 μg/g, on dry tuber, same below) in the freeze-dried maca. On the contrary, the level of macamides and fatty acid derivatives in air-dried maca is far more than that in freeze-dried maca, showing the eight macamides with contents ranging from 31.39 to 1163.19 μg/g.
Those are in micrograms. So freeze dried maca has a max of 0.03436mg/g. That's 0.003436%. Air dried maca has a max of 1.16mg/g. That's 0.116%. However, that is not what we have found in the macas we have tested. The highest we found was 0.07%. Also, that was an extract, not raw maca.