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The Truth About Hormones: What's Going on when We're Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful

Vivienne Parry

What exactly is going on when we're tetchy, spotty, fearful, tearful or just plain awful? Hormones rule our internal world: they control our growth, our metabolism, weight, waterbalance, body clocks, fertility, muscle bulk, mood, speed of ageing, whether we want sex or not (and whether we enjoy it) and even whom we fall in love with. Their effects may occur in seconds and be over in a flash, or emerge over months and last for years. In The Truth About Hormones, Vivienne Parry explains how exactly these mysteriously powerful chemicals affect our bodies and our behaviour.

ScienceScience · medium confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceKeyword Classifier: Medicine & Public Health -> Medicine & Public HealthTopic Classifier: Medicine, Health & the Body -> Medicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the BodyPublic Health Systems

Award History

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Royal Society Science Book PrizeMajor2006ShortlistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    Hormones significantly control human growth, metabolism, weight and body timing, and also influence mood, fertility, ageing, sexual desire and enjoyment, and even whom people fall in love with.

    Model confidence 56%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.