You know that padded area on both sides of your belly button that just won’t go away even when you diet and exercise? Well, most of us do; and every year we get older it seems to keep getting even bigger and harder to control. Yes, it can be frustrating when you eat healthy, exercise and do everything right, and yet that belly fat pad still just won’t go away.
Well, there is some medical research giving us a lot of new information that makes sense…and might just give us a new advantage. Part of what determines whether we store energy we consume as fat instead of burning it as fuel depends on our metabolism which is driven by our hormones. Makes sense, right? it is common knowledge that hormones are the chemical messengers that tell the body what to do. How energetic people feel, their mood, their muscle tone, their sex drive, sharpness of mind, softness of skin, how well we sleep at night…and, yes, how efficiently the body functions to either burn energy or store it away as fat.
According to a study performed at Washington University School of Medicine published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “DHEA has been shown to reduce both visceral and subcutaneous fat in men and women.” The physicians conducting the study determined that a higher DHEA level was associated with improved insulin sensitivity.1
How Does DHEA Work?
From birth to about age 25, humans (men and women alike) produce more and more DHEA. DHEA, is a prohormone produced in the adrenal glands, gonads and the dermis. It is a large carbon chain molecule precursor or prohormone to male androgens as well as female sex hormones, like the estrogens.
Below is a graph of DHEA levels over the human lifespan.
The pink line shows slightly improved DHEA levels that might be possible if one were to augment or boost DHEA availability over the human lifespan, to perhaps gain great benefits in staving off diseases caused by gradually declining hormones.
DHEA applied as a skin cream simply provides something the body metabolizes in the dermis, DHEA, where it occurs and is processed naturally. The bioavailability for beneficial effects is much greater when DHEA is used as a properly made cream instead of a pill. DHEA pills are largely eliminated by the first pass effect of the liver. Twist 25 DHEA cream is bioidentical DHEA in a specially made coconut oil base cream.
While DHEA does not provide a miracle cure for losing belly fat, it certainly may help, according to the research. Along with a healthy diet and regular exercise, DHEA may help you to reduce abdominal fat.
Twist 25 DHEA cream provides DHEA the right way.
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1 Effects of DHEA on Abdominal Fat and Insulin Action in Elderly Women and Men http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/292/18/2243