Symphony Maca: 8 Reasons to Love It
Symphony Maca: 8 Reasons to Love It
We’d like to introduce you to Symphony Natural Health and their unique line of maca products. But first, a quick word about maca itself. Maca (Lepidium peruvianum) is a true adaptogenic herb. Adaptogens are rare — only about a dozen plants are true adaptogens. Adaptogenic plants modulate our physiological responses by supporting various systems within the body helping us to cope with stress, anxiety and fatigue. Maca helps support hormone balance, but maca’s health benefits go beyond adaptation and Symphony goes beyond the norm for maca products. Here are eight reasons for you to love Symphony’s macas.
One: Specific Maca Phenotyes
Phenotype refers to physical/biochemical traits as determined by both genetics and environment. There are more than a dozen maca phenotypes. Symphony uses scientifically researched species and phenotypes that are backed by more than 25 published papers demonstrating maca’s various phenotypes have different active ingredient profiles and are responsible for different physiological responses. Indeed, although they are all L. peruvianum, they even have different DNA. Symphony uses a variety of maca phenotypes alone or in various combinations depending upon the desired result.
Two: Full Spectrum & Highly Concentrated
To capture the full spectrum of active constituents in maca’s various phenotypes, Symphony uses a proprietary process that concentrates actives (up to 10 times higher than raw maca) thereby enhancing bioavailability. Symphony’s macas are 99.9% water soluble.
Three: Maximized Bioavailability
Maca is hard to digest when it’s raw so it must be cooked (gelatinized) to be utilized by our bodies. Symphony uses a gelatinization process that increases water solubility from 68% in raw maca to 99%, making it the most bioavailable gelantinized maca available.
Four: Packaged for Stability
These capsules are sealed in blister packs that act as a barrier to moisture as well as oxygen thereby increasing the stability of the products and ensuring that high quality, efficacy and purity are maintained for years.
Five: Backed by Clinical Research
Symphony has spent more than $5 million over the past twenty years researching maca, maca cultivation and maca’s impact on health. This research includes pharmacology, toxicology and double-blind, placebo-controlled, human clinical trials, published in international medical journals.
Six: Seed to Shelf Means Quality & Purity are Assured
Symphony has total seed-to-shelf control over their products, from dynamic, sustainable and organic farming through certified manufacturing facilities. Certifications include: Certified Organic (USDA, EU and Japanese), Kosher Certified, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Certified. Symphony macas are also free of chemical extractives, alcohol, additives, colorings, preservatives, silicon dioxide and magnesium stearate. In addition, they are also Prop 65 compliant, non-GMO, vegan and free of gluten, dairy, soy and corn.
Seven: Social & Environmental Responsibility
Symphony helps to create year-round employment opportunities and improved working conditions for their partners around the world. They have established schools, infrastructure and manufacturing operations in Peru (maca grows high in the Andes Mountains) and brought capital into third-world communities. In addition, they use recycled packaging materials, vegetable-based inks and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices.
Eight: Medical Team Support for You
To assist in choosing the right product for you, Symphony has a Medical Team that includes medical doctors OB/GYNs, a naturopathic doctor, a pharmacist/clinical nutritionist, an acupuncturist and a person with a PhD in nutritional biochemistry. Some of their areas of expertise are: women’s health, fertility and preconception, integrative medicine and the microbiome. They are there for you and can even provide peer-to-peer information to your healthcare practitioner, if desired.
Symphony offers products made with various maca phenotypes to support hormone balance in the various stages of a woman’s life. The Femminessence line features MacaHarmony for the reproductive years, MacaLife for the transitional peri-menopause years and MacaPause for the post-menopause years. They also have Revolution Macalibrium, a product specific for men’s health.
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