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a chemical text message your glands send, and your whole body obeys without reading twice.
means A chemical messenger made by glands and tissues that travels through the bloodstream to regulate processes like growth, metabolism, mood, and reproduction.
from From the Greek 'hormon,' the present participle of 'horman,' meaning 'to set in motion, urge on' — itself from 'hormē,' an impulse or onslaught. The word was adopted into scientific English in the early 20th century to name these chemical signals that, true to the root, spur the body into action.
- tiny dose
- Effective at billionths of a gram per liter.
- slow mail
- Travels via bloodstream, not nerves like lightning.
- plant version
- Plants use hormones to ripen fruit and bend toward light.
- named 1905
- Coined from Greek for to set in motion.
- love chemical
- Oxytocin spikes during birth, sex, and petting dogs.
insulin — hormone produced by pancreas that regulates blood glucose in all mammals
cortisol — stress hormone produced by adrenal glands, peaks at 8am in humans
oxytocin — hormone released during childbirth and bonding, synthesized in hypothalamus
testosterone — primary male sex hormone produced in testes, 15-40x higher in men