Hormones are the chemical messengers that run the body properly. DHEA is a vital hormone in the body. It is important for many reasons such as benefiting immunity, aiding in growth stimulating anabolic processes, as a vital hormone in anti-aging, and many other functions.

DHEA has several important reasons it can help diabetics. One is it helps to neutralize the damaging effects of the stress hormone cortisol. Diabetes is a chronic disease that results in constant stress to the body. Stress activates cortisol and constant stress results in hyper-cortisol levels. Cortisol is an appropriate response by the body to an emergency situation. It is not intended long term. In a chronic disease cortisol release becomes long term and this leads to hyper levels. Hyper-cortisol is destructive to the body; it burns out the body. It is referred to by some researchers as the death hormone. It is a catabolic hormone, meaning it breaks down the body more than normal. Anabolic hormones help to neutralize the effects of cortisol. DHEA is an essential anabolic hormone that can aid to neutralize the effects of constant cortisol in the bloodstream.

DHEA is also vital to diabetics as an anti-aging hormone. Everyone, diabetics and non-diabetics, begin losing about 10-15 per cent of their DHEA every decade from about the age of 20 years old. Therefore, a diabetic about 40-45 years old can be low in DHEA as much as 40 percent! DHEA is an important hormone of the hormonal cascade. The hormonal cascade is all the hormones in the body are made from top to bottom of the cascade. There are hormones on the cascade more important than others because they help to control and balance the cascade of hormones. DHEA is one of the controllers of the cascade and therefore important. To learn more about the hormonal cascade read the article, "Hormonal Cascade," on the www.restoreunity.org web site. What this means is the more optimal DHEA, the more optimal you function. 40 per cent reduced levels of DHEA can reduce optimal functioning of the body and lead to imbalance in the hormonal cascade. Furthermore, some doctors and researchers consider diabetes as an accelerated form of aging. Specifically, many scientists consider aging as the amount of damage to the body. For example, 4 out of 5 people die from heart attacks or cancer in the United States. Another 100,000 die from hip fractures each year. In other words, almost everyone is dying from damage. The chronic stress from diabetes is constantly damaging the body and DHEA helps to resist and neutralize damage by boosting immunity, balancing hormones on the hormonal cascade, directly counterbalancing the damaging effects of the death hormone cortisol, and other positive effects.

Another idea about the positive effects DHEA has for diabetics involve its ability to counterbalance some of the effects of cortisol in relation to steroid hormones. Excess cortisol results in the depletion of steroid hormones such as DHEA, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, and others. The steroid hormones are vital for many reasons such as controlling sexual functions, aiding in anabolic processes, affecting mood, and many other essential aspects of functioning. The increase of cortisol depletes steroids and this leads to decline in functioning throughout the whole body.

Maintaining DHEA levels at optimal youthful levels will aid in balancing steroid hormones and increasing the levels of steroids in the body. The reason is DHEA controls and balances the steroid hormones, particularly in relation to the hormonal cascade. The steroid hormones are made from DHEA. Therefore low levels of DHEA may affect the steroids negatively and optimal levels of DHEA may affect the steroids positively. Maintaining optimal youthful levels of DHEA is important in counterbalancing the depleting effects of cortisol on the steroid hormones.

The method used by modern science to maintain DHEA at optimal youthful levels is called hormonal replacement therapy. The doctor measures your level of DHEA and determines if it is low. All diabetics past age 35 are probably low on this essential hormone due to hyper-cortisol, accelerated aging, and DHEA declining each decade 10-15 per cent. Therefore, to help resist the damaging effects of diabetes, diabetics should consider hormonal replacement therapy.

We advise using doctors in the American Academy of Antiaging Medicine, referred to as A-4 doctors. Their national number is 773-528-4333. The A-4 doctors study the newest hormonal science and are tested on this knowledge in order to gain entry as an A-4 doctor. The ideas of the hormonal cascade are new and only the most up-to-date doctors will know this important information. Diabetics need doctors who know the latest advances and developments. The reason is clear, since 1922 and the discovery of insulin, the modern medical establishment has not come up with many significant new ideas to help diabetes. Therefore, it seems that only the newest science may be of help, and this means diabetics should find doctors who are moving forward with science. Most doctors who treat diabetes are mainly concerned with monitoring your insulin requirements. I have heard many A-4 doctors speak and many of them have helped diabetics become normal in weight and blood sugar levels, as well as help against many side effects. They believe that a great deal can be done for diabetics and this hope and belief by itself is enough reason to see them.

The idea of DHEA replacement therapy is to use supplementation. Normal doses for women are 5-25 mg a day and for men 25-50 mg a day. DHEA can be found at health food stores. Dr. Bob is mentioned on this web site many times. Dr. Bob was a MD internal medicine, orthomolecular doctor, MD psychiatrist, chiropractor, and healer 65 years. He was a diabetic who lived to 108 years with only 1 side effect 2 years before he passed away. He explained that DHEA is a powerful hormone and therefore it is often recommended you cycle it 5 days on it and 2 days off it. Furthermore, he advised you cycle it 6 weeks on it and take 1 week off it. He advised diabetics over 35 years of age, to consider DHEA supplementation. Optimal youthful DHEA levels can often be restored in 60-90 days.

Dr. Bob advised diabetics who start supplementation of DHEA, to not exceed these doses, instead Dr. Bob recommended you see a hormonal specialist. We suggest you see an A-4 doctor even if you start supplementation. Diabetes is a disease of great stress to the body and has hyper-cortisol as one of the major problems of diabetes. This can lead to greater reduced levels of DHEA than the normal. To optimize DHEA supplementation A-4 doctors might double the normal DHEA dose or even higher, but they will need to measure DHEA levels to determine your dose. It is quite possible that the stress of diabetes and hyper-cortisol have knocked DHEA levels so low that high supplementation will be required. However, as Dr. Bob stated often, DHEA is a powerful hormone and it is advised not to use high doses without a doctor's knowledge.

Dr. Bob advised several other ideas in conjunction with DHEA supplementation. First, DHEA needs co-factors to do its work. One way to get most of the co-factors, according to Dr. Bob, was to take a multi-vitamin and mineral along with DHEA. Dr. Bob also advised zinc supplementation with DHEA supplementation. The reason is zinc is a mineral found in almost all-chemical reactions taking place involving the sexual steroid hormones. Therefore DHEA needs sufficient zinc. Dr. Bob advised 45 mg of zinc per day. The A-4 doctor can measure zinc levels. The stress of diabetes might deplete zinc levels to a point that the A-4 doctor may recommend starting zinc doses higher. Without a doctor measuring zinc levels do not exceed 45 mg per day. One final idea Dr. Bob advised is take DHEA supplementation in the morning to coincide with testosterone cycles, which may optimize the DHEA. An A-4 doctor may have you take DHEA or its equivalent throughout the day, because the stress of diabetes may breakdown the DHEA in your body constantly. Supplementing DHEA 3-6 times a day may make DHEA more effective. However, this is not the usual way to supplement it so we suggest you do so only with a doctor's knowledge.

In summary, as a diabetic, you are fighting a disease that uses many weapons against you. Your metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins is not working well, there are hormonal imbalances to great degrees, your immune system does not work well, and your entire body is constantly involved in fighting against all the effects of diabetes. This is taxing, affects normal lifestyle, and can lead to side effects. You need to fight back and taking insulin is not the whole answer, since side effects occur with use of insulin or without use of insulin. One way to fight back is to correct hormonal imbalances. Science has reached a point where it can correct many hormonal imbalances with a high degree of success and safety. Creating hormonal balance within the hormonal cascade can counterbalance many of the effects we have mentioned in this article as well as many others. One final note, not every doctor who is an expert in hormones, called endocrine doctors, are up-to-speed on the newest developments in the hormonal sciences, in particular the hormonal cascade. The new understanding is hormonal replacement therapy is done in conjunction with replacing all the controlling hormones on the cascade as well as the ones that are low and need replacing. Diabetics need the newest science, because the old science has not provided much new help since 1922 and the discovery of insulin. Therefore select your hormonal doctor carefully and if you are not absolutely sure about him or her then contact the A-4 doctors.


Note – In order for these anti-aging ideas to be successful, you must use supplements of the highest quality. Dr. Bob often said, "almost all supplement companies produce poor quality." You can consider the product page of this web site. Almost all the products met Dr. Bob’s approval. Since he passed away we have attempted to keep the same high standards.

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