Primarily produced in your endocrine glands, hormones manage and control everything in your body. From your immune response to your energy output, it regulates your blood-sugar level, maintains the critical balance among your body's electrolytes, and enables you to build strong healthy bones, it determines how you mature and how slowly or quickly you age. Because of them, women are able to become pregnant and carry a baby. It helps you digest and assimilate your food, convert it into energy, and then use the energy to build muscles or burn fat. And remarkably, your endocrine system monitors not only what is going on inside you but also what's going on around you. It interprets what you see and experience and translates it into physical reactions in your body, enabling you to adapt to change and to cope with stresses of all kinds.
Primarily produced in your endocrine glands, hormones manage and control everything in your body.
Source: The HRT Solution, Marla Ahlgrimm, R.Ph. and John M. Kells, 1999, p25-26 courtesy of Women's Health America, Inc.
The essence of multicellularity is the coordinated interaction of the various kinds of cells that make up the body. Cells communicate with each other by chemical signals.
Three kinds of chemical signaling can be distinguished;
Known as one of the body's master glands, the thyroid is located at the base of the neck near the Adam's apple. Its primary purpose is to produce hormones that regulate the metabolism.
When the thyroid receives thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) from the pituitary gland it produces triiodothyronine which is commonly referred to as T3, thyroxine which is commonly known as T4, and calcitonin. These are the general categories of thyroid hormones.
If the thyroid is producing too much or too little thyroid hormones, physical symptoms will emerge. The best way to test these hormones is through various thyroid blood tests, ordered by a physician. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your thyroid health talk to your doctor.
There are three main categories:
Biogenic Amines
Steroids (cholesterol derivatives)
Peptides
The function of growth hormones is the stimulate growth in the body
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The function of the adrenal gland is to secrete hormones.
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The function of the Adrenal glands is to secrete hormones that the body needs. These hormones help one to deal with stress, and helps to regulate the body.
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