With a teenaged daughter in the house, I find it hard to say that hormones are a good thing. But hormones and the glands of the endocrine system that produce them influence almost every cell, organ, and function in our bodies.
Hormones regulate our mood, growth, development, tissue function, reproduction, and metabolism. They are the body’s chemical messengers, transfer information and instructions from one set of cells to another, and are influenced by factors such as stress, infection, and c...
Published on October 07, 2013 04:00