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Medical News Today - DHEA Helps Menopausal Symptoms And Sex Life
December 27, 2011 Medical News Today, 20 Dec 2011
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239463.php
The hormone DHEA has been found to help relieve menopausal symptoms in women, as well as helping them improve their sex lives, Italian researchers wrote in the Climacteric, the peer-reviewed journal of the International Menopause Society. DHEA stands for Dehydroepiandrosterone, a steroid hormone secreted mainly by the adrenal glands - it is the most abundant circulating steroid in humans.
Professor Andrea Genazzani and team from the University of Pisa, Italy, say that theirs is the first controlled evidence showing that low-dose DHEA can help menopausal symptoms as well as sexual function in females. They added that further human trials are required to confirm DHEA's benefits in females after the menopause.
Forty-eight postmenopausal females were monitored for twelve months. They all had troubling menopausal symptoms. Twelve of them were unwilling to take any kind of HRT (hormone replacement therapy) - they received a combination of vitamin D and calcium supplementation to help protect from osteoporosis. The other 36 participants were randomly selected into three groups:
