DHEA, Magnesium and the Fountain of Youth

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DHEA, Magnesium and the Fountain of Youth

The Bob Livingston Letter, December 2001

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Your age typically determines your DHEA level, your magnesium level, and

your likely present state of health.

DHEA, dehydroepiandrosterone, is the most prevalent and one of the most

essential hormones in human health. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans

lose 80-90% of their optimal DHEA between ages 30 and 80.

According to Dr. Norman Shealy, every known illness is associated with a

magnesium deficiency and low levels of the hormone DHEA. DHEA is the health

and youth hormone. If DHEA is low, magnesium is low. They go together. Even

a 10% increase in magnesium and DHEA levels is associated with a 48%

decrease in death from cardiovascular disease and a 36% decrease in mortality:

from all causes. The human being has the only body that has a significant

level of DHEA.

It is striking that low levels of both DHEA and magnesium characterize

most illnesses. A connection between these essential chemicals appears to be

basic the understanding of health, wellness and the restoring and

maintaining of youth. Low levels of DHEA are found in women up to nine years

BEFORE

development of breast cancer. And men may have low DHEA levels for four or

more years prior to development of prostate cancer. There is a long list of

DHEA/magnesium deficiency symptoms. They are anxiety, hyperactivity,

confusion, depression, diarrhea or constipation, faintness, fatigue,

hyperventilation, lack of coordination, insomnia, intestinal problems, muscle

cramps,

muscle tightness, pain, poor memory, seizures, tinnitus and vertigo; and

these are just the symptoms!

Major diseases associated with DHEA/ magnesium deficiency are: angina

pectoris, arrhythmia, asthma, atherosclerosis, Attention Deficit Disorder

(ADHD), auricular fibrillation, bulimia, cancer, cardiomyopathy, chronic

fatigue, chronic bronchitis, congestive heart failure, cirrhosis, depression,

diabetes, emphysema, gall bladder infections and stones, hearing loss, heart

attack, high cholesterol, hypertension, hypoglycemia, chronic infection

(viral and bacterial) intermittent claudication (leg calf pain), kidney stones,

migraine, mitral valve prolapse, osteoporosis, panic attacks, PMS

(premenstrual syndrome), benign prostate hypertrophy, PVC's and strokes.

In no illness is DHEA /magnesium deficiency prevalent than myocardial

infarction (acute heart attack). On average, patients given magnesium intraveno

usly have a 50% greater survival rate. It has also been shown that mothers

who are given magnesium IVs just before giving birth are much less likely

to have children who develop cerebral palsy.

When DHEA is raised, testosterone levels are raised. This raises libido in

both men and women.

DHEA is a major reflector of overall health and stress reserves. Raising

DHEA results in a remarkable increase in perceived physical and

psychological well being for both men and women. There is increased energy,

deeper

sleep, improved mood, more relaxed feelings and an improved ability to deal

with stressful situations.

 

The Fountain of Youth

" With few exceptions, low or deficient DHEA is found in every illness.

Most critically, DHEA blocks carcinogenesis retards aging and cardiovascular

disease, diabetes and even obesity. Interestingly, US Today, on 9/5/96,

carried a cover story ‘DHEA: Is This Hormone the Fountain of Youth? ' And The

Sciences, in its September/October 1995 issue, carried an article, ‘Forever

Young’. “ From the book Holy Water, Sacred Oil, The Fountain of Youth by

Dr. C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., pp. 90-97.

DHEA is produced in the adrenal glands in both men and women. Men produce

about one third more than women do as they produce DHEA in the testes. DHEA

lowers cholesterol and enhances immune function. It is also an

antioxidant. DHEA is a major marker for age and health. Its major effect is

anti-stress; meaning that the increased cortisone produced by stress is brought

back

down to baseline by a rise in DHEA.

DHEA similarly has anti-diabetic action by sparing or enhancing the

effects of insulin. DHEA protects against both immune and autoimmune disease;

it

enhances immune function, protecting against infections, especially viral

infections, as well as protecting against cancer. It has very significant

anti-obesity effects and a corresponding down-regulation of the stress

response. High animal fat diets and obesity lead to low levels of DHEA. DHEA is

ultimately related to thyroid function. Especially low thyroid production

leads to low DHEA levels.

Levels of DHEA decline with age. The research suggests that supplements

with the DHEA hormone in our middle age and older years will bring the levels

trick to those of' youth. This could help us live longer and improve the

quality of our lives. Remember that when we bring DHEA up, we also bring up

the critically important mineral magnesium. There is virtually no illness

that is not helped significantly by magnesium! Please review the long list

of illnesses above associated with magnesium deficiency.

DHEA level is the major reflector of stress reserves and overall health.

Low levels of DHEA have been reported in AIDS, Alzheimer's, many types of

cancer, coronary artery disease, depression, diabetes, multiple sclerosis,

hypertension, lupus, erythematosus, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and viral

infections; i.e., almost all disease!

Soil throughout the world is deficient in magnesium with the exception of

the soil in Egypt. Most foods in America have almost no magnesium, and most

seniors may not be absorbing the little that they do get in their food. As

a single essential nutrient, lack of magnesium may be responsible for more

disease than any other deficiency. Assimilation and utilization of

magnesium through supplementation is slow and low. Farmers are well aware of the

major impact of magnesium depletion. Horses and cattle may die from

" blind-staggers " or " grass-staggers, " an uncoordinated gait, severe muscle

spasms

and even seizures. All this is curable with magnesium supplementation if

caught early.

White flour and white sugar are junk foods that deplete magnesium.

So-called soft drinks are the ultimate junk food and a serious detriment to

health. Prescription drugs deplete magnesium from the body.

Diabetes:

Another major disease in which magnesium deficiency is rampant is

diabetes. In fact, in diabetes, extreme magnesium loss is common. Magnesium is

an

important co-factor in the production of insulin by the pancreas. Normal

total body magnesium is essential for glucose metabolism. Thus, the rampant

magnesium deficiency in our society may be a contributing cause of diabetes.

Cerebral palsy

may be the result of magnesium deficiency. Mothers given intravenous

magnesium just before giving birth are much less likely to have children who

develop the disease.

Hypertension:

Both calcium deficiency (70% of patients) and magnesium deficiency (80%)

are important factors in hypertension. Replacement of both calcium and

magnesium may make anti-hypertension drugs unnecessary. Doing away with " drug

therapy " for hypertension of itself would save lives, to say nothing of the

improved quality of life. Have you ever read the inserts that drug companies

put out with so-called anti-hypertension drugs? If you haven't, ask your

pharmacist for the original company insert. Do this with any drug. You will

be shocked!

Migraine:

Migraine is a disabling condition for 12 to 13% of Americans. A shot of

magnesium is as effective as most drugs. Long-term magnesium supplementation

reduces the frequency of migraines.

Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia:

Neither of these is likely to be cured without magnesium replacement.

Depression:

In depression, magnesium deficiency is universal. Magnesium replacement is

one of the key elements for long--term success in this perhaps most common

illness in the world.

Osteoporosis:

As in the supplement Calcium Lactate, calcium is balanced with magnesium

to give the unique chemical combination that makes bones and teeth sound.

Magnesium and DHEA go together.

When we raise intercellular magnesium, we raise DHEA. This is the natural

way to raise the body's DHEA levels. A catch in this equation is that whole

blood, serum, plasma and even white blood cell levels of magnesium do not

give an accurate picture of optimal magnesium Looking back at the graph

again we can see that DHEA is present in a baby in the first months then

collapses until the beginning of puberty. Why couldn't we raise the DHEA in our

infants and rear a generation of highly intelligent and healthy people?

DHEA and Magnesium Replacement:

Oral magnesium is potentially laxative and even if it's not, it requires

about a year to rise to sufficient levels. Intravenous magnesium is the most

rapid. For most people, ten IVs given over a two-week period is adequate.

Then there is follow-up, but most people don't like needles, and it may be

difficult to find a physician to give them.

The simple, painless, no risk method is absorption of magnesium through

the skin. The right amount of " Magic Oil " or " Dollop of Love " (DOL) can

normalize intercellular magnesium and DHEA. Diluted Magic Oil can be re-used

for

foot soaking several times before discarding. Use a plastic pan that is

large enough to soak both feet at once.

Note: Your condition comes about over years. Be persistent over a few

months to expect health reversal. Restoration to health is not instant. Do a 20

minute foot soak with diluted Magic Oil [ transdermal magnesium

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four

to six weeks. To get added benefit, rub oil or spray a 50% solution on the

bottom of the feet, as needed.

You may have found your Fountain of Youth!

Modified as needed by Thomas Narvaez, Ph.D. according to information from

Jim Carter and the book: Holy Water, Sacred Oil, The Fountain of Youth, by

Dr. C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.

THE BOB STEVENSON LETTER, used with permission

DHEA, The Youth and Health Hormone

 

Dehydroepiandrosterone, or DHEA as it is more often called, is a steroid

hormone naturally produced in the adrenal gland. It is the most abundant

steroid in the bloodstream and is present at even higher levels in brain tissue

.. DHEA levels are known to fall precipitously with age, falling 90% from

age 20 to age 90.

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DHEA is known to be a precursor to the numerous steroid sex hormones

(including estrogen and testosterone) which serve well-known functions.

DHEA and Cancer

 

Early reports from England [bulbrook, 1962, 1971] suggested that DHEA was

abnormally low in women who developed breast cancer, even as much as nine

years prior to the onset or diagnosis of the disease. Of the 5000 women

followed in the study, 27 developed cancer. Most of the 27 had abnormally low

levels of DHEA. Many years later, Dr. Arthur Schwartz of Temple University

found that supplemental DHEA significantly protected cell cultures from the

toxicity of carcinogens. Cell cultures usually respond to powerful

carcinogens with mutations (changes in DNA), transformations (changes in cell

appearance), and a high rate of cell death. But when Schwartz added DHEA along

with the carcinogen, all three of these effects were significantly

diminished.

 

DHEA and Glucose Metabolism

 

Investigators have shown that DHEA inhibits glucose-6-phosphate

dehydrogenase (G6PDH), an enzyme that breaks down glucose. There are two

glucose-metabolizing pathways in the body, the catabolic, energy-yielding

pathway and

the anabolic, biosynthetic pathway. G6PDH happens to be the first enzyme in

the biosynthetic pathway, the one which results in the synthesis of fatty

acids and ribose (the sugar used in making deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA).

In simple language, G6PDH turns glucose into fat.

DHEA and Aging

 

The body’s production of DHEA drops from about 30 mg at age 20 to less

than 6 mg per day at age 80. According to Dr. William Regelson of the Medical

College of Virginia, “DHEA is one of the best biochemical bio-markers for

chronologic age. In some people, DHEA levels decline 95% during their

lifetime.†the largest decline of an important biochemical yet documented.

DHEA levels are directly related to mortality (the probability of dying)

in humans. In a 12-year study of over 240 men aged 50 to 79 years,

researchers found that DHEA levels were inversely correlated with mortality,

both

from heart disease and from all causes. This finding suggests that DHEA level

measurements can become a standard diagnostic predictor of disease,

mortality and lifespan. Furthermore, if animal results hold true, supplemental

DHEA may prevent disease, reduce mortality, and extend lifespan in humans.

 

 

 

DHEA: The Buffering Steroid?

DHEA may be unique among hormones for it’s lack of specificity for hormone

receptor sites. Just as vitamin E has never been shown to have a specific

metabolic role (it is only proven essential as a general antioxidant), DHEA

may serve an equally general purpose. “DHEA is the first example of a

buffer action for hormones that I know of,†states William Regelson. “It is

a

broad-acting hormone that only demonstrates itself under a specific set of

circumstances. In that way, it is like a buffer against sudden changes in

acidity or alkalinity. That is why when you get older, you’re much more

vulnerable to the effects of stress. As DHEA declines with age, you are losing

the buffer against the stress-related hormones. It is the buffer action that

helps prevent us from aging.†The decrease of DHEA with age may result in

gradual decline of a system for suppressing enzyme systems responsible for

creating the building blocks of new cells, like lipids, nucleic acids (RNA

and DNA) and sex steroids. The resulting rise in enzymatic activity in

advanced age may be responsible for the proliferative events (cancer) and

degenerative disease that become more frequent in advanced age. In this

respect,

DHEA might be best considered to be an anti-hormone, which might ‘

de-excite’ steroid-sensitive receptors that would otherwise lead to enhanced

metabolic activity.