Natural Hormone, Disease, Mood and energy, and more.

Dietary supplements are widely available through a rapidly expanding market of products commonly advertised as beneficial for health, performance enhancement, and disease prevention. Given the importance and frequent evaluation of physical performance and health as a criteria to join and remain in the military, the use of these products by military personnel has raised concern regarding over-all and long-term efficacy and safety. This evaluation is especially difficult, as many of these supplements contain multiple ingredients, have a changing composition over time, or are used intermittently at doses difficult to measure. This book analyzes the patterns of dietary supplement use among military personnel, examines published reviews of the scientific evidence, and identifies those dietary supplements that are beneficial and/or warrant concern due to risks to health or performance. The book also recommends a system to monitor adverse health effects and a framework to identify the need for active management of dietary supplements by military personnel. Military policy makers, personnel, and recruits will find this book useful, as will nutritionists, athletes, and others working in strenuous environments.

Reduced production of DHEA associated with the diseases that accompany aging has led to its use as a nutritional supplement for antiaging, metabolic support, and other purposes. While animal studies have clearly shown substantial benefits of DHEA in combating various disease states, the effect of low levels of DHEA in humans is less established, an

This book is the long overdue DHEA resource guide providing the entire DHEA story. Find out how to use clinically proven DHEA to reverse aging and treat and prevent disease! Lose weight, enhance memory, and restore sex drive. Find out shocking and important new facts about DHEA delivery systems and proper dosage. Dr. Richard Ash, of the prestigious Ash Center for Comprehensive Medicine, New York, and medical writer Beth M. Ley team up to tell you how to use the natural hormone DHEA, safely and effectively to avoid side effects and obtain the best results.

"The Superhormone Promise" is the definitive book on DHEA, Pregnenolone, Testosterone, Estrogen and Progesterone, Thyroid Hormone and Growth Hormone, and Melatonin. Readers will discover the remarkable things superhormones can do, such as boost immune systems, increase sex drive, strengthen bone and muscle, relieve stress, enhance memory, reduce body fat, reverse aging, and much more.

DO YOU WANT . . . The high energy you enjoyed in your twenties and thirties? Protection against cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis? Renewed sexual appetite and vigor? To beat depression, boost your memory, and handle stress? To lose body fat while building up your lean muscle mass? DHEA can do all this and more! In The DHEA Breakthrough, biochemist Stephen Cherniske gives you all the information you need to take advantage of and maximize the extraordinary properties of this superhormone--safely and effectively. The DHEA Breakthrough contains the easy-to-implement DHEA Plan, including a diet designed for our "paleolithic" bodies, stress reduction techniques, and an exercise program that eases you into the next level of performance, no matter where you are now. With this comprehensive, accessible book, you can look forward to a longer, more satisfying, more healthful life! "I've used DHEA in my practice for five years and seen how it can help restore physiologic balance. That's close to a modern day miracle, and this book describes the breakthrough perfectly." --Jesse Hanley, M.D., Medical Director, Malibu Health and Rehabilitation