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DHEA - THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
By Spice Williams-Crosby
Hormone Replacement Therapy is a very complex medical procedure, and
will take scientists years to perfect before it can become cost
effective and extend our life span beyond 150 years. This is mainly
because each individual has a unique level of hormones in the blood,
and the therapy has to be designed to fit each separate individual.
In the interim, however, I'm convinced that we can all do battle
with Father Time by a constant replenishing of our
"Dehydroepiandrosterone" (DHEA) -- the hormone that is produced by
our adrenal glands, located a few inches north of the naval, serving
a variety of functions. It's known as the "mother" hormone and has
the ability to convert itself into other hormones such as estrogen,
progesterone and testosterone upon demand.
Because the levels of DHEA decline with age, the older you get the
less DHEA you have. At age 25, the body begins to reduce the natural
production of DHEA, and the aging phenomenon begins. In our early
30's, our bodies produce about 30 mg. of DHEA per day. By the time
we reach our 60's, DHEA levels are under 5 mg. per day. These
figures show us that by the time an individual reaches the age of
80, he or she will be producing only about 10 to 20 percent of the
DHEA produced in their second decade of life. Clearly, this decline
signals the beginning of many age-related diseases.
If you have high levels of DHEA, you are less likely to develop
atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, not to mention
its noted effects in such areas as autoimmune disease, obesity,
ulcerative colitis, arthritis, osteoporosis, Epstein-Barr virus,
chronic fatigue syndrome, memory and learning deficiencies, HIV
infection and Aids, and Herpes viral infections.
In 1986, Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor found that levels of DHEA were
inversely related to death due to all causes in men over 50,
particularly in deaths from cardiovascular disease. Her work at UC
San Diego, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found
that a 100 mcg/ml of increase in DHEA sulfate levels in the blood
was associated with a 48 percent reduction in cardiovascular
disease.
Other studies have shown the life span of laboratory animals to be
extended by 50 percent when administered DHEA. Mice did not age as
rapidly when they were fed DHEA, maintaining their youthful hair
color and sleekness compared with the graying, coarsening hair of
the control animals that were not given DHEA. Administering DHEA in
elderly men and women has also shown to increase the "IGF-1"
(insulin growth factor). Oddly enough, IGF-1 is the protein made in
the liver which, upon stimulation by human growth hormone, is the
protein that generates age reversal effects, as reported in the New
England Journal of Medicine in 1990.
Immune-enhancing effects show that DHEA protects against bacterial
growth and viral infections, and has shown to stimulate the T-cells,
B- cells, and macrophages. In additional studies with laboratory
mice who had the autoimmune disease known as lupus, the production
of auto- antibodies were significantly restrained by the treatment
with DHEA. For those of you that don't know, Lupus is an incurable,
and sometimes fatal, autoimmune disease that results when a person's
immune system, for unknown reasons, attacks the body's own
connective tissues including the skin, joints and internal organs.
Nine times as many women as men seem to contract this disease,
usually during childbearing years. Women with lupus generally have
lower levels of DHEA in their blood, and it is believed by the
respected rheumatologist from Stanford University, Dr. Von
Vollenhaven, that by bolstering the levels of this hormone, one
might alleviate some of the symptoms of the disease. Other
autoimmune diseases in men such as ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid
arthritis has been successfully treated with a supplementation of
DHEA.
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The replication of the HIV virus has been reduced by the use of DHEA,
and clinical trials are underway for the use of DHEA as an adjunct
therapy for HIV infected individuals. Abnormally low levels of DHEA
are associated with increased progression of HIV infection. In
patients infected with HIV virus, the AIDS syndrome does not develop
until DHEA levels begin to fall, or rather, the fall of DHEA levels
warning the onset of the AIDS disease.
Studies done in 1981 showed that DHEA had an inhibitory effect on
Epstein-Barr virus and chronic fatigue syndrome. However, one of the
most impressive effects of DHEA is it's ability to induce weight
loss in laboratory animals, even when these animals were given as
much food as they wanted. In one human study with 5 male adults, the
results showed (after 28 days with diet and physical activity
remaining normal) a decrease in body fat without affecting muscle
weight. At the same time, their LDL levels fell by 7 percent to
confer protection against cardiovascular disease.
Epidemiologic studies indicate that the risk of developing a wide
variety of cancers is directly related to the serum level of DHEA,
and that DHEA has prevented occurrence of many types of chemically
induced tumors, including colon cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer,
and breast cancer. In a study of 5,000 women, it was found that
those who had developed breast cancer had abnormally low DHEA blood
levels as long as nine years prior to development of the cancer. And
when they reached menopause, the DHEA levels measured in their blood
began to drop significantly, women with osteoporosis having
significantly lower blood levels of DHEA as well. In 1987, it was
reported that DHEA was positively correlated with bone density in
postmenopausal women. Therefore, there is a strong association of
declining DHEA production with declining bone density during
progressive aging.
Memory, comprehension, and learning disorders have all also been
effected by the use of DHEA, including dementia, amnesia and
Alzheimer's disease. When the circulatory levels of DHEA were
studied in 86 patients with Alzheimer's disease, they all had lower
blood levels of DHEA than the average healthy person.
If we could keep our DHEA levels the same as when we were 25, it
might be possible to remain youthful for an extended period of time.
The commonly used dosage levels ranging from 50 mg. per day to 3,000
mg. per day, depending on the condition and the physicians form of
treatment. There is no universal standard determining optimal usage.
The good news is, however, that scientists have found that a rare
Mexican plant, "Dioscorea Villosa" (commonly called the Mexican Wild
Yam), contains the basic DHEA compound in precursor form, which our
bodies can use to manufacture DHEA.
You do not need a prescription for Dioscorea, but it is hard to find
the "real thing" when your dealing with rare Mexican Yams. It was
only after some investigative effort that I found a product that
seems to be doing the trick. Disocorea Villosa was discovered around
1941 by a Professor at Pennsylvania State College. It’s from the
Mexican Wild Yam and it is not a hormone; it is that food that
instigates hormone production in the body. The beauty of this food
product is that you can ingest it into the upper jejunum of the
small intestines, it will meet up with 5 sulfotransferous enzymes
known as DHEA, Estrogen and Phenol sulfotransferous enzymes, and it
will be precursed into diosgenin. From there it will be converted
into pregnenolone via the adrenals, and thus onto it’s biological
pathway which goes into Progesterone, DHEA, Testosterone, Estrogens,
Cortisones, and Cortisol.
Research has found that because phytosterols produce the prohormones
DHEA and progesterone, a broad spectrum of conditions can be
addressed or prevented through its use. These natural hormone
precursors (DHEA and progesterone) made from dioscorea are easily
absorbed into the system and have the ability to support the body’s
production of hormones. After 20 years of practicing anatomical and
clinical pathology, Dr. H. Reginald McDaniel discovered that he had
become disappointed and disenchanted by drug toxicities and
failures. His work in private practice in various hospitals located
in Dallas, Texas, included positions of leadership: chairman, board
of directors and chief of staff at Great Southwest General Hospital
and director of pathology and laboratories, and director of medical
education for 5 years at Dallas- Ft. Worth Medical Center. In
November of 1995, Dr. McDaniel’s made this statement about
diosgenin:
"Scientific journal articles are in my file showing that mannalian
research models (1) orally administered natural glycosylated
dioscorea extract crosses the intestinal lining mucosal cells and
enters the portal blood stream as diosgenin. #1(2) diosgenin was
added to culture medium containing living brain cells, the media was
sampled periodically and it was shown there was production of
sterols in the pathway to DHEA and pregnenolone synthesis. (3)
Animals with the ovaries removed to eliminate that source of
estrogen production were administered diosgenin and it was converted
by the adrenals to pregnenolone and then to estrogen. #2 (4) oral
diosgenin reversed experimental diabetes. #3 (5) oral diosgenin
lowered blood cholesterol levels. #2 (6) 200 human volunteers
received oral dioscorea and their percent body fat was reduced,
percent muscles mass increased and bone density increased. #5 these
changes are very healthy, represent a dietary reversal of
degenerative changes in the body associated with aging and are well
documented as being mediated by the endocrine system through the
means of hormone synthesis and release."
Disocorea Villosa has been found to be a safe anti-inflammatory and
anti-spasmodic substance. Because of it's regenerative factors, I
strongly recommend it for athletes and those with injuries, bearing
in mind it's harder for anyone to gain muscle mass, burn fat, and
repair tissues the older you get.
However, there are so many other benefits one can use this Disocorea
Villosa for. It has been noted to be useful in helping:
*Lower Cholesterol
*Lower Blood Sugar
*Lower Insulin requirements in Diabetics
*Increase Hormones as needed - Estrogen, Progesterone, DHEA
*Adrenal Hormones for Strength
*Energy
*Allergies
*Inflammation
*Pain
*Mental Alertness
*Depression
Many of my readers know about my son, Luke, who was diagnosed with
Type 1 Diabetes after experiencing a bout with the Coaxackie Virus
at 18 months of age. Now, it’s really hard for a toddler to stop
what he’s doing and say, “Oh, mom, I feel I need my sugar tested, I
think my glucose is low.” So, my husband and I have had to test his
blood glucose levels every hour and a half and inject him every
three hours with each meal. Luke is now 4 1/2 years old and we began
grinding up this product and putting it into his juice when he was
about 3 years old. It worked fairly well, but now that he’s a little
older and I’ve just taught him to swallow the tablet so that it will
be digested in his small intestines and not his stomach, his insulin
requirements have been dramatically reduced.
DHEA, dehydroepiandrosterone, is used by our bodies to produce at
least 50 other hormones that are important to over-all health.
Because our DHEA resources become more limited as we age, the
available DHEA is prioritized by the greatest need. DHEA is made
only while we sleep at night, so we receive our daily allotment once
every 24 hours. Organ systems needing hormones that are deprived in
favor of the needier organ systems will eventually become diseased
if the body cannot manufacture additional DHEA.
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