Wild Yam is positioned by Glycens as supporting healthy metabolism and digestive comfort. Research includes a 2023 toxicology review of Dioscorea Villosa root extract and older reviews on herbal menopause-support preparations. Some marketing around wild yam blurs the line with DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), a compound sometimes associated with it in popular literature -- but wild yam itself doesn't convert to DHEA in the human body without laboratory processing. See our blog post on this specific mix-up.