DHEA benefits for men are hotly contested. Produced naturally by the adrenal glands, DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is a steroid hormone converted by the body into testosterone and other sex hormones.

Dosage Physiological replacement dosages of oral DHEA in healthy people older than 40 years are in the range of 20-50 mg/day for men and 10-30 mg/ day for women. [2, 4, 8] These dosages are ...

In women who took the DHEA, levels of belly fat fell by 10.2%, while men’s belly fat decreased by 7.4%. In both men and women taking DHEA, subcutaneous fat -- stores of fat carried just below ...

DHEA has been used to try to improve sexual function in postmenopausal or perimenopausal women, but all these women were premenopausal. "That's an important caveat," Kushnir pointed out. All the ...