Improve Your Hormones with Sweet Potatoes

​The Sweet potato is a powerful food that contain higher amounts of beta-carotene and vitamin C than carrots, more protein than wheat and rice, and more fiber than oat bran. Sweet potatoes and yams also happen to be a rich source of DHEA (eat the skin!). This is a precursor hormone – a substance that remains latent until it converts into a hormone that the body needs. DHEA can become estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone, all essential for your body’s anti-aging defenses to work. As one ages, however, the body’s levels of precursor hormones like DHEA drops. Eat sweet potatoes year around and celebrate long life.