DARE-ME: The Live-to-150 Formula (Part 6)
ENHANCE -- This refers to things we can do to boost (enhance) our natural chemistry to raise the levels of youth hormones and other anti-aging substances in our bodies.
Science has discovered a handful of vitamins, nutrients and other substances that appear to have genuine anti-aging effects. Many are available as dietary supplements, which you can buy over the counter in pharmacies and grocery stores, and cheaply via the Internet.
Supplements I personally take for their anti-aging powers include coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), alpha lipoic acid, acetyl-l-carnitine, and pregnenolone. For each of these, there is strong evidence of their ability to slow some aspects of aging and, perhaps, extend life. Please look them up and decide for yourself whether or not there is anything to the claims made for them.
I also take supplements of DHEA. Because this one is a bit controversial, I want to say more about it.
DHEA--dehydroepiandrosterone--is a so-called “mother hormone,” which our bodies produce naturally. Our bodies convert it into sex hormones--testosterone and estrogen, primarily--as needed.
Our natural DHEA levels decline rapidly with age, eventually falling to a fraction of what they were at their height during our 20s. In fact, the level of DHEA in a person's body is one of the surest biomarkers for age.
Knowing this, researchers have experimented with DHEA supplementation as a treatment for everything from obesity to lack of energy to loss of libido. The news from these experiments has been mainly good. DHEA looks to be--potentially--one of the most powerful antiaging substances readily available to the average person.
Some experts worry, though, about the possible risks from people using a powerful hormone as a dietary supplement. For example, what if taking in DHEA from the outside signals the body to shut down production of its own natural supply?
Questions such as this underscore the need to do your own research and form your own conclusions before taking any supplement. This is so important in the case of DHEA that I created an entire web site to present all of the evidence for and against its use as an antiaging therapy.
For the record, I take one 25 milligram DHEA capsule every other day. This reflects my own comfort level as far as dosage and frequency. It seems to be enough to provide the benefits of DHEA that I hoped for when I started. (For one thing, I'm finally losing some stubborn belly fat. The ability to melt away adominal fat is one of the more recently documented benefits of taking DHEA.)
Taking the right vitamins and other supplements is an important part of making the DARE-ME formula work. They will greatly aid your own antiaging program. Learn as much as you can before starting them, though.
Note: This article is adapted and condensed from "Live to 150-I Dare You!" The full article is available at this link at the DHEA for Antiaging site.
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Science has discovered a handful of vitamins, nutrients and other substances that appear to have genuine anti-aging effects. Many are available as dietary supplements, which you can buy over the counter in pharmacies and grocery stores, and cheaply via the Internet.
Supplements I personally take for their anti-aging powers include coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), alpha lipoic acid, acetyl-l-carnitine, and pregnenolone. For each of these, there is strong evidence of their ability to slow some aspects of aging and, perhaps, extend life. Please look them up and decide for yourself whether or not there is anything to the claims made for them.
I also take supplements of DHEA. Because this one is a bit controversial, I want to say more about it.
DHEA--dehydroepiandrosterone--is a so-called “mother hormone,” which our bodies produce naturally. Our bodies convert it into sex hormones--testosterone and estrogen, primarily--as needed.
Our natural DHEA levels decline rapidly with age, eventually falling to a fraction of what they were at their height during our 20s. In fact, the level of DHEA in a person's body is one of the surest biomarkers for age.
Knowing this, researchers have experimented with DHEA supplementation as a treatment for everything from obesity to lack of energy to loss of libido. The news from these experiments has been mainly good. DHEA looks to be--potentially--one of the most powerful antiaging substances readily available to the average person.
Some experts worry, though, about the possible risks from people using a powerful hormone as a dietary supplement. For example, what if taking in DHEA from the outside signals the body to shut down production of its own natural supply?
Questions such as this underscore the need to do your own research and form your own conclusions before taking any supplement. This is so important in the case of DHEA that I created an entire web site to present all of the evidence for and against its use as an antiaging therapy.
For the record, I take one 25 milligram DHEA capsule every other day. This reflects my own comfort level as far as dosage and frequency. It seems to be enough to provide the benefits of DHEA that I hoped for when I started. (For one thing, I'm finally losing some stubborn belly fat. The ability to melt away adominal fat is one of the more recently documented benefits of taking DHEA.)
Taking the right vitamins and other supplements is an important part of making the DARE-ME formula work. They will greatly aid your own antiaging program. Learn as much as you can before starting them, though.
Note: This article is adapted and condensed from "Live to 150-I Dare You!" The full article is available at this link at the DHEA for Antiaging site.
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