 but it needs to be used correctly. It's got to be used as a properly made absorbable skin cream that's called Twist 25 DHEA cream. And you rub it in morning and evening, every day, and DHEA lets your body make the hormones it needs to. DHEA is a pro-hormone, a hormone precursor that we make 50 different other smaller metabolites from. All the estrogenic hormones use it as a base.