Can hormones delay the aging

Viliyana Filipova — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:54:04 +0000

It has long been proven that the hormones in the body decreases with age. It is some time ago in Science was launched notion that if one artificially maintain higher levels of hormones, it will aging more slowly. Sounds logical, but only at first sight because, according to data from recent surveys of U.S. scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota that is not true. Experts observed two types of hormone – dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), which is made up of organisms and of both sexes and male testosterone. After the age of 30 years of age the level of these hormones begin to decrease and accordingly began aging body. Men and women participants in the experiment in continue two years have provided medicines containing DHEA. Initial results have indeed shown that people with high levels of DHEA in the blood are living longer than others. After accumulating sufficient representative data, and DHEA and testosterone Truth has had another. As part of the male volunteers were taking small amounts of testosterone and some of the drugs was replaced with placebo, ie they do not contain any hormones. Neither people in the study nor the doctors collect the data had information about drug intake of patients. Results after two years of work show that the quality of life, employability and sexual desire of all participants remained at the same level regardless of which group they were. This is enough for scientists from the clinic to argue that all scientific claims to slow aging as a result of increased levels of hormones have no evidence.
On the other hand the authors of the study indicate that currently, the application of such hormonal methods are not observed side effects, but can not be given guarantees that these will not appear after five or ten years. Therefore, scientists recommend a person to adhere to typical methods for healthy living – physical activity combined with healthy diet and good sleep.

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Can hormones delay the aging