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DHEA
(redirected from dehydroepiandrosterone)

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DHEADelaware Home Education Association (est. 1990; Dover, DE)
DHEADesert Home Educators Association (California)
DHEADehydroepiandrosterone


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Fifty-five men and 58 women (aged 65-75 years) were randomly assigned to receive, in double-blind fashion, 50 mg per day of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) or placebo for one year.
The Orlando Sentinel reported that Lewis was taking nutritional supplements and that one contained the banned steroid DHEA, or Dehydroepiandrosterone, a chemical produced naturally in the body but also common in supplements that boosts the testosterone level.
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a ubiquitous adrenal hormone with immunomodulatory properties whose levels decline significantly with advanced age in humans.
 
 
 
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