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i wanted to touch on a very important hormone  called dhea as it relates to menopause there  

are definitely a lot of therapeutic benefits  for men but i’m going to mainly focus on the  

benefits of using dhea for women now what is  dhea it’s a steroid hormone precursor in other  

words in your body you have a lot of different  hormones and hormones can be made from proteins  

or cholesterol and so cholesterol is like a  building block for steroid hormones so you  

have cholesterol which is a precursor for  dhea and dhea is a precursor for estrogen  

androgens and a lot of the other steroid  hormones now the other interesting thing about  

dhea is that it is one of the most abundant  circulating steroids in the human body and  

because it’s a precursor for so many other  hormones when you get older dhea diminishes  

greatly it can drop to levels of 70 to 80 percent  of what you had when you’re younger now what does  

it mean if you’re a female going through menopause  well the older you get the less estrogen you’re  

going to have the less androgen you’re going to  have and dhea is sold as a supplement you can  

get it over the counter it’s very easy to get it’s  also sold as a medication and as a side note you  

can increase your dhea by exercising by fasting  and calorie restriction having enough dhea also  

helps protect against insulin resistance so  without dhea you can actually have higher amounts  

of insulin in the body and it can affect your  weight your metabolism and many other things now  

i’m going to get into what dhea is used for but  i want to make a special point you want to start  

out with very low amounts okay like between 10  milligrams and 30 milligrams per day why because  

if you take too much you can end up making too  many androgens and if you’re female you don’t want  

too many androgens you want just the right amount  so you may find that you’re getting acne oily  

skin hair growth through your body that you don’t  want now if you’re a man and you’re watching this  

you usually can take a little bit more  between 50 to 100 milligrams simply because  

your body has a lot more androgens than women  okay so what is it used for it’s used in adrenal  

insufficiency so if you have adrenal problems like  you don’t have enough adrenal function uh there’s  

a condition called addison’s where your adrenals  aren’t even working this would be very beneficial  

and that is because dhea is made by your adrenals  as well as the gonads ovaries and testicles all  

right it’s also used in menopausal hormone  therapy the third use is in treating painful  

sexual intercourse due to vaginal atrophy  and the last benefit for females is it does  

increase your libido so if you want to try this  make sure you start off with very small amounts  

and then gradually increase until you achieve  your goal now one little point before you take  

dhea you don’t want to take dhea if you already  have too much estrogen or too much androgen so  

if you have polycystic ovarian syndrome where  you have too much androgen you don’t want to  

take this because you’re going to end up with acne  oily skin and more body hair all right thanks for  

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