Dimensions
150 x 210 x 23mm
Hormones rule your internal world: they control your growth, your metabolism, weight, water balance, your body clocks, fertility, muscle tone, mood, the speed of ageing, whether you want sex or not (and whether you enjoy it) and even who you fall in love with. Their effects may occur in seconds and be over in a flash, or take months and last for thirty years.
Whilst some hormones - like estrogen, testosterone or insulin - are very familiar, most are little known and, among the general public, none are understood. But not knowing what they do doesn't stop people claiming 'it's your hormones' whenever someone is tetchy, spotty, unhappy, fearful, tearful or just plain awful.
As it happens, they are right. It is our hormones. And yes, we are completely in the thrall of things we know nothing about. Vivienne Parry tackles this strange and complex world for the first time. In a fascinating read, full of wonderful stories, she sheds some light on our conceptual darkness.
