As people get older hormone levels decline. Hormones drive how we feel, our energy levels, moods, and productivity as well as immune response, vascular health, sexual function, cognitive function and mental clarity.
DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is a prohormone -- a building block for the hormones we produce. Research shows that declining levels of DHEA are associated with most conditions of ageing and that supplementing DHEA to enhance declining levels can provide a multitude of benefits such as reducing risks for cancer, improving vascular health, reducing belly fat, improving energy, mood, sex drive, and muscle tone.
Research done by a team of scientists at University of Wisconsin provides evidence of the biological effects of DHEA on the human nervous system. According to Clive Svendsen, the study’s senior author, and a highly regarded authority on brain stem cells at the Waisman Center:
“What we saw was that DHEA significantly increased the division of the [neural] cells,” says Svendsen, a professor of anatomy and neurology. “It also increased the number of neurons produced by the stem cells, prompting increased neurogenesis of cells in culture.” ”This is the first real evidence of DHEA’s effects on human neural cells.”*
What is the best way to supplement DHEA? Use Twist 25 DHEA cream.
Why? Because if DHEA is taken orally, it does not get absorbed into the bloodstream because it is eliminated by the liver. What does get into the bloodstream is a small amount of DHEA sulfate (DHEA-S). DHEA sulfate, while beneficial, does not have the same beneficial effects as DHEA nor can the body convert DHEA-S to DHEA, nor is DHEA-S metabolized into sex hormones.
Twist 25 is a transdermal DHEA cream. The pharmaceutical grade DHEA in Twist 25 cream is absorbed into the bloodstream through the skin. Most DHEA metabolism actually happens in the skin. Twist 25 provides what the body uses where it is needed.
John R. Woodward, M.D.
Board Certified Ob-Gyn
Practicing at Medical City Dallas
Graduate of Yale Medical School
*Suzuki M, Wright LS, Marwah P, Lardy HA, Svendsen CN. Mitotic and Neurogenic Effects of Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on human neural stem cell cultures derived from the fetal cortex. PNAS, 101, 3202-3207, March 2, 2004.
