/blogger.g?blogID=4890162208751711244" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">When you hit the age of 30, you may be like most people and begin to wonder why:
Why The Anti-Aging Hormone DHEA Levels Dwindle After Age 30 And What To Do About It
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
• Your skin starts to take on a different appearance and
wrinkles begin to appear
• Mentally you may start to slow down
• Your body seems to have more aches and pains than ever
• Healing takes longer and longer
• You may tend to feel as if you don’t have the competitive
edge anymore
All these signs and symptoms of aging are due to one thing
alone – your hormones are shifting.
Your body makes hormones for basic functioning, such as antidiuretic
hormone, which kicks in and is related to regulating the flow of urine when you
drink water or beer.
Your body makes hormones that may be categorized as
anti-aging hormones, too.
One of them is called DHEA hormone, or
dehydroepiandrosterone.
Hormone Science Is Not An Exact Science
DHEA hormone levels are at their peak when you’re in your
mid 20s, and then they begin to dwindle. That’s when some people start noticing
that their body is slowing down.
However, what most people don’t know is that you can keep
DHEA levels up by your good daily health habits.
Thus, it’s possible for you to slow down your own aging
process – just because you get up in the morning and do healthy things for your
body! Isn’t that amazing?
Of course, you could take a simple DHEA supplement instead –
but the truth about hormone replacement is that it’s difficult to find out
where exactly the hormones should be and keep them there.
Think about what happens when someone becomes low in thyroid
hormone.
They are prescribed a thyroid hormone supplement and it
seems that only in rare situations that thyroid supplement truly corrects the
problem.
They may feel as if it is making a difference in the
beginning, but a year later, they are experiencing the same problem again.
DHEA hormone supplements may be similar.
Some doctors will order a 50 mg DHEA supplement for a man
past the age of 30 or 25 mg DHEA supplement for a woman after testing them and
finding the levels that are quite low.
DHEA Levels: Keep ‘Em Up And Your Sex Life Is Up!
Once the levels are higher, it’s time to stop the DHEA and
use lower doses to maintain the levels.
This anti-aging hormone is usually synthesized in the
adrenal glands and has many functions in the body:
• Increase
libido
• Burn fat
and make it easier to lose weight
• Prevent
cancer
• Production
of estrogen and testosterone
• Increases
the activity of white blood cells
• Improves
memory and focus
• Promotes
lean muscle tissue in the body
25 mg DHEA: Too Much For Women?
50 mg DHEA: Too Much For a Man?
DHEA supplements, like many other nutritional supplements,
can cause problems if taken too long and in too high of a dosage.
This is because the anti-aging hormone helps boost the
production of the body’s natural testosterone.
Many practitioners may give dosages of the nutritional DHEA
supplement of 50 mg per month for men and 25 mg for women, but only for the
first few months, then drop the levels way down to 25 mg DHEA and 10 mg for
women.
Some practitioners believe that only 5 mg DHEA is really
needed per day for anyone.
When libido is dwindling to nothing, a boost of testosterone
works to enliven a man’s desire for his wife once again. It also can boost a
wife’s desire for her husband.
But too much of a good thing can be bad. Too much
testosterone can lead to aggression and a complete personality change.
Too much testosterone can make a man into a raging, nasty
person because it suppresses warm and caring feelings for others.
On the other hand, enough testosterone helps give a man the
oomph to take risks financially such as going for a new promotion, or maybe
considering new investments for his retirement portfolio.
Enough testosterone for a woman gives her the desire to want
her husband in bed again.
As you can see, there is a fine balance here. And that’s why
it may be easier for some people to start with changing their health habits to
get the natural increase in DHEA levels in the body.
Three of them seem so basic that you might say to yourself,
“How could it be that easy?”
Well perhaps the Creator made it easy for us, and we just
seem to make it harder on ourselves.
How To Increase DHEA Levels Naturally
1. Get enough sleep!
2. Eat protein with every meal during your day.
3. Get to the gym and work out with weights.
It’s amazing how these simple strategies will make vast
changes in how anyone feels! So what are you waiting for?
Have you had enough protein – chicken, fish, turkey, beef,
pork, lamb, or eggs today? Have you worked out with weights? If so, go to bed!
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