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DHEA, also known as deydroepiandrosterone, is nutritional supplement that many “older” bodybuilders, workout enthusiasts, fitness buffs, etc., used for muscle building purposes and overall health benefits. In case you didn’t know what DHEA supposedly does: when broken down in the body it helps form the muscle building hormone testoserone and the female sex hormone estrogen.

Well, in the Journal Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism, in research that was done at the very famous and well-respected Mayo Clinic General Clinical Research Center, it was discovered that a group of non-trained women, 31 of them to be specific, DHEA provided no advantage in muscle building. They placed them through a workout routine, along with endurance exercise, for the entire study, which lasted three months.

Again, no additional gains in muscle mass were achieved as a direct result of taking the dietary supplement DHEA. The dosage used in the study was 50 mgs per day.

Now, we have to take into consideration the fact that these were females, and were individuals that didn’t normally workout. So, their ability and skill to generate enough intensity may not have been enough to stimulate muscle building. And, the dosage may be a lot lower than what bodybuilders looking to build muscle mass might use. Saying that, however, bodybuilders have long been building muscle tissue without the use of DHEA for decades before it was ever invented. So take that into consideration!