Functional medicine physician, OB / GYN, and women's health expert Anna Cabeca, DO, FACOG, ABAARM, explains that «as an adrenal hormone, DHEA
acts as an androgen and naturally declines as we age and are stressed.
Not exact matches
It helps with testosterone production by stimulating
androgen which is a hormone that
acts as a precursor to testosterone.
SARMs
act as full agonists at the
androgen receptor within the body.
An
androgen is a special type of hormone that is able to
act as a ligand (molecule that links to another molecule), it is these ligands that connect to
androgen receptors (AR).
Furthermore, high blood levels of insulin can
act by increasing androgenous hormonal stimulation of the ovarian theca cells
as well
as potentiating gonadotropin - stimulated ovarian
androgen steroidogenesis — although recent data has suggested that the insulin - induced increase in ovarian hormone secretion is not accompanied by increased steroid metabolism.74 Hyperinsulinaemia may also affect the central actions of
androgen by impairing progesterone inhibition of the gonadotropin - releasing hormone pulse generator.75 Insulin has also been shown to increase expression of adrenal steroidogenic enzyme mRNA47
as well
as adrenal responsiveness to adrenocorticotropic hormone.76