DHEA for improved muscle recovery

[Seagal]

Anybody experience with DHEA supplementation for improved muscle recovery?
I don't use HCG. I will try 100mg dhea as a post workout supplement.

Effect of dehydroepiandrosterone administration on recovery from mix-type exercise training-induced muscle damage - PubMed

This study aimed to determine the role of DHEA-S in coping against the exercise training mixing aerobic and resistance components. During 5-day successive exercise training, 16 young male participants (19.2 ± 1.2 years) received either a placebo (flour capsule) or DHEA (100 mg/day) in a...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[excelnelg]

I can't speak to the effect on muscle recovery, but I would recommend taking a much lower dose. I was supplementing with 100mg before my last blood test and it was raising my estradiol too high.

 

[Seagal]

I can't speak to the effect on muscle recovery, but I would recommend taking a much lower dose. I was supplementing with 100mg before my last blood test and it was raising my estradiol too high.

Good that you mentioned that. I can only work out 2x per week because of my slow recovery.

In this study 100mg was taken daily and it raised estrone by 200% after two weeks.

Hormonal impact DHEA modest in men, significant in women

In the anabolic steroids scene, DHEA is regarded as a barely effective prohormone. The ergogenic effect is subtle - so subtle that you can wonder why DHEA is on the doping list at all. As long as we talk about male DHEA users, of course. But when women use DHEA, well... That's a different story...

www.ergo-log.com

 

[Pnw0031]

I take 5mg of topical dhea everyday. Not sure if it benefits muscle recovery but I feel calmer

 

[Seagal]

In the first study, maybe it was just the increased E that improved recovery. Don't have access to the full text.

 

[Seagal]

The best study I can find

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpendo.00100.2006

I think this is a useless thread.

For women dhea really makes a difference wrt to T and E but also DHT.

For men I guess high dose vitamin C improves recovery, inflammation etc, better than dhea.