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What single weakness would you guess that aging, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and senility have in common? According to Dr. Jullian Whitaker's "Health and Healing" Newsletter (February, 94), it appears that low blood levels of DHEA is the common factor!
DHEA is produced by our own adrenal glands, and is the most dominant hormone in our body. Dr. William Regelson, the most noted of DHEA researchers, calls it the "mother hormone" because our body converts it upon demand into whatever hormone it needs, such as estrogen, testosterone, progesterone and coriconsterone. Blood levels of DHEA peak around age 20. DHEA is the only hormone that declines in a linear fashion in both sexes, making it one of the most reliable markers of aging. By age 80, blood levels are only 5% of what they were at age 20. The decline of DHEA signals age-related diseases.
In a study on 5,000 apparently healthy women, it was discovered that of the women that had blood levels of DHEA of less than 10% of that expected for their age group, and had subnormal DHEA levels up to nine years before there cancer was diagnosed. Conversly, 100% developed and died of breast cancer.100% of the women with higher than average levels of DHEA remained cancer free. Other researchers picked up on this observation, and gave DHEA to rats who were inbred to develop breast cancer. DHEA blocked it!
Other Studies on DHEA . . .
- Elizabeth Barrett-Conner, M.D., from the University of California School of Medicine, tracked DHEA levels in 242 men ages 50 to 79 for twelve years. She found that a 48% reduction in cardiovascular disease and a 36% reduction in mortality from any cause was correlated to a 100 microgram per deciliter increase in DHEA sulfate blood levels.
- A 1988 study was done at John Hopkins in which rabbits with severe atherosclerosis were treated with DHEA. The had an almost 50% reduction in plaque size.
- Arthur Schwartz, a researcher at Temple University In Philadelphia, found that DHEA blocks an enzyme called G6PD which promotes cancer cell division, as well as fat production. " There isn't any question," schwartz says, "DHEA is a very effective anti-obesity agent."
- In Dr. Robert Atkins Health Revelations (January 94), he states that DHEA has been shown to improve memory in aging mice and there has been very active ongoing research using DHEA against Alzheimer's. One study showed that levels of DHEA in a group of Alzheimer's patients to be 48% lower than the control group.
Until January of 1994, DHEA has been available only in a synthetic form and only through doctors who would prescribe it.. The problem until now has been that oral intake of any naturally occurring DHEA was much less effective due to breakdown in the digestive tract. This challenge has been overcome!
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