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Maca side effects

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AbbaDabbaDooh · 02/02/2026 10:41

I'm sure I had this before and stopped.

I recently bought some maca chocolate powder in waitrose. All week I've felt rubbish when I have woken up, really exhausted, had headaches. I stopped it a couple of days ago and woke up this morning feeling...just better. It was honestly at a point where I thought maybe I have a terminal illness! I don't know if it was the maca, there's definitely some side effects when I look it up, plus I'm on other meds - immune suppressants and antidepressants.

Anyone had side effects from it?

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AbbaDabbaDooh · 02/02/2026 10:44

Interesting, according to Google it does the opposite to what my immune suppressant does, so working in the other direction to what the immune suppressant is meant to do.

I suspect that's probably why I've felt so awful. I will stick to plain cacao !

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