Serum DHEA Research Analysis

Things To Know & Note

DHEA, dehydroepiandrosterone

The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect serum dhea

Grade	Level of Evidence [show legend]
	Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials
	Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled
	Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies
	Uncontrolled or observational studies only

Outcome	Magnitude of effect ? The direction and size of the supplement's impact on each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.	Consistency of research results ? Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.	Notes
Dehydroepiandrosterone	Strong	Very High See all 13 studies	Supplemental DHEA results in a reliable and significant increase in DHEA concentrations in the blood (both sulfated DHEAS and unsulfated DHEA)
Ashwagandha	Minor	- See study	A slight increase has been detected in serum DHEA sulfate (13.2%) with 60 days of ashwagandha supplementation.
Chromium	-	- See study	Chromium supplementation does not appear to alter serum concentrations of DHEA or sulfated DHEA.
Eurycoma Longifolia Jack	-	- See study	No significant changes in the sulfate form of DHEA (DHEA-S) is noted after twelve continual weeks of supplementation
Zinc

All comparative evidence is now gathered in our A-to-Z Supplement Reference.

The evidence for each separate supplement is still freely available here.