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Thyroid, Pregnenolone, Progesterone, DHEA, etc
Thyroid, DHEA, Pregnenolone, Progesterone, etc
How will DHEA supplementation effect me?
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<blockquote data-quote="BillS" data-source="post: 143433" data-attributes="member: 38622"><p>I may be one of those rare people who don't do well with DHEA. My doc had put me on it, 50mg/day I believe, to try and increase low testosterone (296). I was on it 5 months, and had significantly increased energy, with a modest increase in mental clarity and libido. After 5 months, at my yearly physical, we found that hemoglobin and hematacrit were elevated about 10% above the top of the normal range, and liver enzymes were over 50.. He ran additional tests to rule out various causes, and found that mitochondrial activity/antibodies was 21, above normal. </p><p></p><p>I did a lot of online research and found that DHEA can indeed increase both liver enzymes and mitochondrial activity, but my doc didn't believe that theory. At that point I stopped the DHEA...</p><p></p><p>He sent me to an gastroentinologist to try and figure it out, and that doc thought I may be developing PBC (basically liver chirrosis due to my immune system attacking my liver). But at least she was open to my theory, and thought it was plausible. We waited another month before running repeat labs to see what was going on (at this point I had been off DHEA for 2 months), and everything had gone back to the middle of the normal range, and mitochondrial antibodies were negative again. </p><p></p><p>While I did like the increased energy (likely due to the high mitochondrial activity), it didn't raise my testosterone much (330, within the margin of error of testing I am told).</p><p></p><p>Very strange...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillS, post: 143433, member: 38622"] I may be one of those rare people who don't do well with DHEA. My doc had put me on it, 50mg/day I believe, to try and increase low testosterone (296). I was on it 5 months, and had significantly increased energy, with a modest increase in mental clarity and libido. After 5 months, at my yearly physical, we found that hemoglobin and hematacrit were elevated about 10% above the top of the normal range, and liver enzymes were over 50.. He ran additional tests to rule out various causes, and found that mitochondrial activity/antibodies was 21, above normal. I did a lot of online research and found that DHEA can indeed increase both liver enzymes and mitochondrial activity, but my doc didn't believe that theory. At that point I stopped the DHEA... He sent me to an gastroentinologist to try and figure it out, and that doc thought I may be developing PBC (basically liver chirrosis due to my immune system attacking my liver). But at least she was open to my theory, and thought it was plausible. We waited another month before running repeat labs to see what was going on (at this point I had been off DHEA for 2 months), and everything had gone back to the middle of the normal range, and mitochondrial antibodies were negative again. While I did like the increased energy (likely due to the high mitochondrial activity), it didn't raise my testosterone much (330, within the margin of error of testing I am told). Very strange... [/QUOTE]
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Thyroid, Pregnenolone, Progesterone, DHEA, etc
Thyroid, DHEA, Pregnenolone, Progesterone, etc
How will DHEA supplementation effect me?
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