The “Happiness Hormone” Everyone Loves

When Oscar-winning comedic actress Goldie Hawn was asked in a Vanity Faire interview, “When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?” she replied with a single word: “Happy.”

Most of us can relate to that simple, honest childhood desire for happiness.

Unfortunately, as we grow older, a host of subtle and some not-so-subtle changes begin to take place in our bodies. And those changes can lead to a number of health challenges that can rob you of your energy, vitality, stamina, physical strength, mental acuity and yes, even your emotional well-being, i.e., your happiness.

One of the most important age-related changes for both men and women alike is the drop in your body’s levels of a simple, yet profoundly important hormone called pregnenolone.

Pregnenolone is a completely natural hormone manufactured in the body from cholesterol. Indeed, pregnenolone is the grand precursor from which almost all of the other steroid hormones are made, including DHEA, progesterone, testosterone, the estrogens, and cortisol. This is why it is frequently referred to as the “mother hormone.”

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, DO, best-selling author of the The Total Health Program:

“With both men and women alike, pregnenolone levels naturally peak during youth and begin a long, slow decline with age. By the age of 75 our bodies produce 60% less pregnenolone than the levels produced in our mid-30’s.

For this reason pregnenolone is one of the biomarkers of aging. Like counting the rings of a tree, by measuring the level of pregnenolone at any given point of a person’s life, it is often possible to make an educated guess as to his or her age.”

Indeed, many cutting edge physicians and scientists now believe that raising your body’s levels of pregnenolone to more youthful levels is a crucial step in the prevention of premature aging. “If you’re feeling older than your days,” says well-known biologist and author Jim South, M.A., “then pregnenolone may be just what you need.”

“The Happiness Hormone”

Pregnenolone has also been widely reported to make people feel happier. In fact, its well-known mood-heightening qualities are almost legendary. As Dr. Ray Sahelian, MD states in his wonderful little book, Pregnenolone: Nature’s Feel-Good Hormone:

“I am 100 percent convinced that taking pregnenolone leads to changes in awareness and alertness. I noticed an improved visual clarity…within an hour of dosing…a mellow, steady, persistent feeling of well-being…had imperceptibly come on…Flowers seemed…brighter and prettier…my attention focused on the architecture of the homes.

…I started noticing the patterns of the stones, the shapes of the windows, doorways, porticos and other details…thepalm trees…appeared Caribbean island-like picturesque. Everything seemed more beautiful and intriguing. I felt a sense of child wonder, that everything was okay. How special and enchanting life could be!”

Dr. William Regelson, a respected pregnenolone expert and author of The Superhormone Promise: Nature’s Antidote to Aging writes that there appears to be a direct correlation between pregnenolone levels in the human body and emotional well-being. He states:

“A recent study conducted by the National Institutes of Mental Health showed that people with clinical depression have lower than normal amounts of pregnenolone in their cerebral spinal fluid (the fluid that literally bathes the brain).”

In other words, as pregnenolone levels decline, your emotional well-being can also sink like a stone.

Other experts point to pregnenolone’s ability to help reduce excessively high levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, as the reason it has such a profoundly positive balancing effect on the emotions.  According to Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby, MB ChB, MD, PhD, FRCP, MA:

“Pregnenolone has been studied extensively since the 1940’s…One of its most important actions is to counter damage caused by the natural stress hormone called ‘cortisol.’

Cortisol is helpful in modest amounts, but is toxic at higher levels. Pregnenolone’s ability to block excess cortisol levels may be one of the main reasons for its known memory-enhancing and mood-boosting benefits.”

Pregnenolone also appears to help people approach life’s daily challenges with a more positive mental outlook. According to the respected biologist and author Dr. Ray Peat, PhD:

“When using pregnenolone, men and women alike report feeling a profound mood of resilience and an increased ability to confront challenges successfully.”

In the book, The Mood Cure, by Julia Ross, M.A., pregnenolone supplementation is highly recommended for helping overcome adrenal fatigue and reversing even the most devastating forms of exhaustion, emotional distress and depression.

And in the book, Pregnenolone: A Radical New Approach to Health, Longevity, and Emotional Well-Being, author Dr. Gary Young, N.D., points out that pregnenolone enhances mental performance, facilitates learning, helps the body adapt to stress, increases one’s overall feeling of happiness and well-being, and helps induce a change of attitude in which we actually become more appreciative of life.

According to Dr. Young, pregnenolone also improves concentration, prevents mental fatigue, increases productivity, improves psychomotor performance and relieves depression.

In short, restoring pregnenolone to more youthful levels in the body helps boost not only our emotional well-being, but enhances our physical and cognitive abilities as well.

Better Memory, Focus and Concentration!

Pregnenolone also operates as a powerful neurosteroid in the brain, modulating the transmission of messages from neuron to neuron, and strongly influencing learning and memory processes. In other words, it helps you think quicker, understand and retain more complex topics, and even speak with greater clarity.

In fact, according to Wikipedia, “Pregnenolone belongs to the group of neurosteroids that are found in high concentrations in certain areas in the brain, and are synthesized there. Neurosteroids affect synaptic functioning, are neuro-protective, and enhance myelinization. Pregnenolone is under investigation for its potential to improve cognitive and memory functioning.”

In animal tests, pregnenolone has been found to be 100 times more effective for memory enhancement than any other steroid, steroid-precursor or prescription drug tested. According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Nov. 6, 1995), pregnenolone is “The most potent memory enhancer yet found.”

In a recent Life Extension Foundation article titled “Enhancing Cognitive Function With Pregnenolone,” Dr. Julius G. Goepp, MD wrote:

“There is strong evidence that pregnenolone levels diminish with advancing age and that restoring these levels may help alleviate deteriorating brain function.

… This is borne out in research that has demonstrated pregnenolone’s ability to reduce the risk of dementia and improve memory, while also alleviating anxiety and fighting depression…

Pregnenolone may play a pivotal role both in laying down memories in the first place, and then preventing their loss by directly protecting the nerve networks that store them!

These complementary and versatile actions of pregnenolone are sending shock waves of interest through the scientific community because of the enormous implications for treating all sorts of age-related disorders of memory.”

Dr. Goepp also points out:

“Even more remarkably, from a treatment standpoint, researchers have shown that pregnenolone increases brain levels of acetylcholine, a key neurotransmitter required for optimal brain function, which becomes deficient in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

Acetylcholine is not only vital for thought and memory, it is also involved in controlling sleep cycles, especially the phase of sleep that is associated with memory (called paradoxical sleep or the random eye movement [REM] phase).

Scientists have used this knowledge to study the effects of pregnenolone on sleep cycles and discovered that it dramatically increases memory-enhancing sleep.

Together with previous findings that pregnenolone increases nerve cell growth (neurogenesis), researchers have concluded that pregnenolone can improve cognitive function in older animals by increasing acetylcholine levels, which stimulate new nerve cell growth in the brain areas most closely associated with memory and learning.”

Nationally-known biologist and long-time hormone researcher Dr. Ray Peat, Ph.D, has stated:

“It is now known that pregnenolone is one of the major hormones in the brain. It is produced by certain brain cells, as well as being absorbed into the brain from the blood.

It protects brain cells from injury caused by fatigue, and an adequate amount has a calming effect on the emotions, which is part of the reason that it protects us from the stress response that otherwise leads to an excessive production of cortisone.

People feel a mood of resilience and an ability to confront challenges.”

And as Dr. Joseph Mercola, DO, has stated, “Pregnenolone operates as a powerful neurosteroid in the brain, modulating the transmission of messages from neuron to neuron and strongly influencing learning and memory processes.”

Balances Other Vital Hormone Levels

Unlike synthetic prescription hormones that can skew and disrupt your hormonal balance overtime, pregnenolone doesn’t appear to throw other hormones out of balance, but instead restores the balance to the body’s hormones.

This is why experts say pregnenolone works equally beneficially for both men and women. For example, in men, pregnenolone tends to bring testosterone levels into proper homeostasis (balance) with the body, while in women pregnenolone tends to bring estrogen levels into proper homeostasis with the body!

Some researchers even believe taking supplemental pregnenolone improves the function of the various glands that produce important hormones. As Dr. Ray Peat, Ph.D, the famous biologist and endocrinologist who’s been studying hormones and their effects in the human body since 1968, and is the author of “Progesterone, Pregnenolone & DHEA — Three Youth-Associated Hormones,” has written:

“Pregnenolone improves function of the thyroid and other glands, and this ‘normalizing’ effect on the other glands helps to account for its wide range of beneficial effects.”

What’s more, supplementing with small amounts of pregnenolone -- anywhere from 5 mg. to 20 mg. per day -- is widely reported to help the body increase production of other needed neurosteroids, which many experts believe helps improve your quality of life by rejuvenating the mind and body to more youthful functioning.

Surely, you can see by now why supplementing with small daily amounts of pregnenolone on a regular basis can be so beneficial to you as you age!

Astonishing Range of Beneficial Functions!

A growing number of independent medical studies and observations by clinical researchers have demonstrated that pregnenolone shows tremendous potential in an amazing array of conditions, many of which are associated with alleviation of the potentially debilitating effects of premature aging. Clinical studies have shown that pregnenolone effectively:

• Relieves symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis
• Reduces excessive cortisol levels
• Boosts natural immunity
• Dramatically relieves fatigue
• Restores normal energy levels
• Increases endurance
• Alleviates mood disorders and relieves depression
• Enhances positive mental outlook
• Relieves painful symptoms of fibromyalgia
• Relieves many symptoms of clinical depression
• Alleviates many symptoms of chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes, MS and lupus
• Alleviates chronic insomnia and other sleep disorders
• Aids the body in the healing of nerve injuries and nervous conditions such as stress and anxiety

What’s more, a number of cutting edge medical researchers and scientists believe this is only the tip of the iceberg. Based upon newer research conducted by independent researchers, it is further believed that pregnenolone may also:

• Improve cardiovascular status by lowering total cholesterol and LDL levels, thereby lessening incidences of heart attack.
• Help increase muscle mass, while decreasing the percentage of body fat.
• Help the thyroid gland convert T4 to the more active T3, and thus improve symptoms of low thyroid.
• Accelerate recovery from any kind of acute stress (e.g., insufficient sleep, excessive exercise, mental strain, etc.).
• Reduce cravings for carbohydrates, and eliminate related “high/low” mood swings
• Dramatically improve sex drive
• Eliminate chronic joint and muscle aches
• Enhance vision — a number of individuals who have taken pregnenolone have reported enhancement of visual perception
• Maintain the “program” brain cells need to store and retrieve short-term memories, and initiate the memory storage process by stimulating the enzyme adenylate cyciase, which is needed to regulate and activate other critical enzymes required for cellular energy.

Even the Physician’s Desktop Reference, a noted medical guide that sits on the desk of just about every medical doctor in America, states of this powerful natural hormone:

“Pregnenolone is a chemical found in the brain that helps make many other chemicals in the body. It is used for sleeping problems, tension and stress, depression, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), to enhance the memory and help stop memory loss in conditions like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s.”

Finally, according to Dr. Ray Peat, Ph.D, the noted hormone researcher and widely quoted author, pregnenolone does not produce a “negative feedback loop.” In other words, unlike synthetic prescription hormones such as testosterone, the use of pregnenolone does not appear to inhibit the body from producing its own stores of the hormone.

Indeed, according to Dr. Peat, studies show that oral supplementation of pregnenolone actually enhances the body’s ability to make its own pregnenolone naturally!

What the Experts Are Saying…

Here’s what the experts are saying about the myriad of healing benefits associated with supplemental usage of pregnenolone:

“Pregnenolone very quickly helps fatigued, stressed people regain their ability to handle stress, sometimes with a single dose. It also tends to improve function of the thyroid and other glands. It can have a calming effect on the emotions, giving a mood of resilience and an ability to confront challenges. Also, people have noticed that pregnenolone has a “face-lifting” action, produced by improved circulation to the skin, and by an actual contraction of some muscle-like cells in the skin.”

— Dan Milosevich, Certified Nutritionist

“Pregnenolone…reduces allergic reactions, lessens arthritis inflammation and produces a relaxing and mildly euphoric “stress buffer effect”, without any of the negative side effects of cortisol…Pregnenolone improves mood, and has a mild antidepressant effect…[it] also improves energy levels by protecting your energy producing mitochondria from toxins, which would otherwise damage the mitochondria.”

— James South, M.A. (noted biologist)

“Pregnenolone has been studied extensively since the 1940’s…One of its most important actions is to counter damage caused by the natural stress hormone called ‘cortisol.’ Cortisol is helpful in modest amounts, but is toxic at higher levels. Pregnenolone’s ability to block excess cortisol levels may be one of the main reasons for its known memory-enhancing and mood-boosting effects.”

— Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby, MB ChB, MD, PhD, FRCP (MA)

“It is now known that pregnenolone is one of the major hormones in the brain…It protects brain cells from injury caused by stress and fatigue, and an adequate amount has a calming effect on the emotions, which is part of the reason that it protects us from the stress response that leads to an excessive production of cortisone. People feel a mood of resilience and an increased ability to confront challenges.”

            — Dr. Ray Peat, Ph.D

“Some people find pregnenolone improves energy levels, vision, memory, clarity of thinking, well-being, and often sexual enjoyment or libido. Pregnenolone may be considered a good brain enhancer in those who are deficient. Studies in rodents show pregnenolone to be one of the most effective and powerful memory boosters. Pregnenolone may increase levels of acetylcholine in the hippocampus and other memory regions in the brain. Some women report lessening of hot flashes or premenstrual symptoms.”

— Dr. Ray Sahelian, M.D.

“Pregnenolone seems to be the most effective bioidentical hormone for memory improvement…

— Dr. Joseph Mercola, D.O., author The Total Health Program

As you can see, the experts agree that pregnenolone is a tremendously advantageous nutritional supplement with a wide range of positive benefits including prevention of premature aging…regaining youthful vigor and vitality…reducing stress and increasing positive mental attitude… boosting memory, cognition and mental clarity…increasing libido…boosting the function of key organs and glands…protecting brain cells… protecting the body’s energy-producing mitochondria…and even reducing allergic reactions and arthritis inflammation!

Experience the Pregnenolone Difference, Today!

If you’re anything like me, life gets awfully hectic these days, and it’s easy to end up feeling out-of-sorts. So if you think you could use a nice mental lift from time to time, pregnenolone may be just what you’re looking for.

I often take pregnenolone several times a week (in 10-20 mg. doses) just to experience that profound lift in my step it always provides! What’s most interesting to me is that the residual positive effect from taking pregnenolone in this manner can literally last for days.

Or if you’re looking for something that will seriously augment your daily anti-aging program, you might want to consider adding smaller doses (5-10 mg.) of pregnenolone to your ongoing every-day nutritional supplement regimen.

Not only will pregnenolone make you feel noticeably better, but you’ll experience a profoundly positive change in just about every aspect of your life, thanks to the way pregnenolone benefits the function of just about every organ in your body.

What’s more, experts says taking supplemental pregnenolone will help make all of your other supplements work better, too, because of the positive way it affects organ function, assimilation and circulation.

The bottom line is that you’ll feel the difference within the first few days – that’s how good pregnenolone truly is!

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P.S. – What Experienced Pregnenolone Users Are Saying…

“Within only a couple of days of using pregnenolone, I noticed benefits such as decreased ‘brain fog’, sharper thinking and reasoning ability and a happier and more relaxed attitude. Life’s daily hurdles don’t “loom” so large now and I handle things better as a result.

I take one 10mg tablet each morning and on occasion double the dose if I know I’m going to work through a particularly challenging day. I am able to honestly attribute the changes to the pregnenolone since I changed nothing else in my daily routine other than the addition of the supplement.

I was actually surprised that I was able to tell a difference so quickly and recommend the supplement to others. To check my results, I quit taking the pregnenolone after a few months for a week. That was enough and I immediately began taking it again. I call it my ‘happy pill’!”

— Tamra B.

“Within several hours of taking it, I felt like someone turned a light on inside my head. My foggy thinking cleared up. My energy returned. The feeling of malaise and depression simply vanished. It was like coming out of a dark tunnel and shedding a 75 pound backpack at the same time. I felt light and free again.

It really put a lift back into my step, and left me with a profound sense of confidence and well-being. What’s more, my libido soared from about a two to a nine on a scale of ten.
Since that time I’ve used pregnenolone periodically, for up to several weeks at a time, and always to great effect. It’s my first choice in nutritional supplements whenever I’m feeling low on energy or stamina, or just want that extra mental and physical boost.”

— S.S.J., Las Vegas, NV

“I’ve noticed that I have a much more cheerful disposition, and I actually feel like getting things done again. I’m much more motivated. It has definitely helped put the pleasure back into my life.”

— Paul S., FL

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