What do your DHEA-S levels mean?
The short answer
Nobody we follow has said what your DHEA-S should be. It comes up in the interviews we follow, but never with a number.
For DHEA-S, the range shifts with age and sex. Read yours against the range printed on your own report.
A typical lab range is 35–560 µg/dL.
What DHEA-S measures
An adrenal hormone your body uses as raw material to make testosterone and estrogen.
It falls with age, and it stands in for how much your adrenal glands are putting out.
Checked against MedlinePlus — DHEA Sulfate Test.
What changes your DHEA-S?
About age and stress.
“we also look at other hormones including uh DHEA sulfate this is a hormone that looks at your adrenal function adrenal function is connected to your sex hormones but often as we're under stress as we age our DHA levels go down”
Common questions
What is a normal DHEA-S level?
The normal range for DHEA-S depends on age and sex. Read your number against the range printed on your own report. The quotes on this page say what moves it. No physician or research scientist we follow has said how menopause, the time of day, the pill, hormone therapy or sleep changes DHEA-S. None has said how DHEA-S differs between men and women either.
What does your DHEA-S number mean?
Where it sits against the range your own report prints next to it. Nobody we follow has drawn a tighter line inside that range.
What does the DHEA-S test measure?
An adrenal hormone your body uses as raw material to make testosterone and estrogen. It falls with age, and it stands in for how much your adrenal glands are putting out.
Why is there no target here?
Because nobody we follow has named a number for DHEA-S. If that changes, it will be here.