Can DHEA supplement help in infertility?
According to the American Pregnancy Association, six million women a year deal with infertility. Now, Tel Aviv University study is giving new hope to women who want to conceive – in the form of a pill they can find on their drugstore shelves right now. Prof. Adrian Shulman of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Meir Medical Center has found a statistical connection between the over-the-counter vitamin supplement DHEA, used to counter the effects of aging, and successful pregnancy rates in women undergoing treatment for infertility. In the first controlled study on the effects of the supplement, Prof. Shulman found that women being treated for infertility also received supplements of DHEA were three times more likely to conceive than women being treated without the additional drug. The result were recently published in AYALA, the journal of the Israeli Fertility Association. Prof Shulman and his fellow researchers conducted a study in which a control group of women
