Womens anti-aging dhea

What is DHEA? Why we all Need it!

(Now available for women as well)

DHEA, is the abbreviation for dehydroepiandrosterone. You might say that it is a “chemical cousin” of estrogen and testosterone. If you said that, you’d be correct. These two hormones are made from DHEA and DHEA is made from cholesterol, by your adrenal glands.

DHEA helps form the hormones estrogen and testosterone. It is also responsible for body functions such as “fat” and “mineral” metabolism, and “stress” control.

More recently, a number of health claims have been made for DHEA. DHEA may be an “anti-aging” agent, because restoring its levels to those found in 20-years-olds appears to have a rejuvenating effect.

It is also said that DHEA can prevent or delay the hardening of arteries, lethal viral infections, lowered immunity, obesity, and diabetes.

How much DHEA do humans have?

For the first few years of life, the adrenal glands make very little DHEA. But then, around age six or seven, levels begin to increase, and DHEA production peaks when we are in our mid-20s. At this point, it is the most abundant hormone in circulation.

Once we hit our early 30s, production begins to decrease, and by the time we hit our 70s we only have about 20 percent of what we had 50 years earlier. By age 85, it’s down about 95 percent.

Are low levels of DHEA are associated with disease?

Some of the more interesting research and theories on DHEA have come from C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., who has been studying this hormone for years. In his research, he has discovered that low levels of DHEA (along with low levels of the mineral magnesium) are found in nearly all diseases, and that the only diseases associated with normal levels of DHEA are schizophrenia and alcoholism. In one of his studies, Shealy looked at DHEA deficiency in chronic pain and depression (J. Neurol Orthop Med Surg 17, no. 6 [199]).

In 138 patients suffering from such diseases as depression, chronic headache, firbromylagia, spinal pain, and chronic pain, 93 percent were deficient in DHEA levels.

In an early human study, Dr. Barrett-Connor measured DHEA levels in blood samples taken from some 2,000 men and women between 1972 and 1974, and tracked the number of subjects who died from heart disease.

The original study, published’ in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1986, showed a 60 to 70 percent lower death rate from coronary vascular disease and ischemic heart disease for men with high DHEA levels, but a 23 to 103 percent increase in risk for women.

Now available for the first time, DHEA crème for women! If you want a DHEA crème that has had some amazing results, talk to the doctor.