DHEA Revives Liver of Aged Rats and Improves Antioxidant Reserves and Akt Signaling in Young and Old Rats.
Image 1: I don't think celebrities realize it, but there is more to anti-aging than an unlined face. New studies show that DHEA could after all help with all sorts of age related diseases (img. antiagingpossible.com ) It's been a while since DHEA was in the news. While I have posted a handfull of mostly beneficial findings related to dehydroepitestosterone (DHEA), the hype that sourrounded its purported anti-aging effect in the late 1990s has completely abated. In view of DHEA's implication (or rather the lack of the latter) in age-related autoimmune disease, sexual disfunction, osteoporisis, deteroiations of lipid metabolism, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular and liver disease (Basci. 2007- ignificance of dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate in different diseases), it is questionable how people beyond the age of 40, when DHEA production declines by 2% per year...