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Sean Goh's Reviews > Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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Lightheaded romp through the history of hormones, featuring circus freakshows, hucksters, and theories proven and disproven. Also stories of women being told "you should go learn to write shorthand so you can be secretary" and replying in the "IDGAF".
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Back then, hormones were boobs and periods and sex. But hormones are so much more. They are the potent chemicals that control metabolism, behaviour, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing - not just puberty and sex.
Starling's clear definition of hormones: They are substances secreted by a gland that target a distant site, they travel via the blood; they are crucial for the maintenance of the body, they are crucial to survival.
Dating, in Hopkins parlance, usually meant studying together in the library.
It would be easy to underestimate or ignore Radioimmunoassay altogether. It's technical, hard to understand. It's neither a cure nor a discovery; it's simply a way to measure. And yet it's hard to underestimate the significance of this invention, the impact it has had on the way science is done today. RIA provided doctors with a whole new vision. It was as if someone had lifted their blindfolds, and they could finally see what they were doing.
Most people don't notice a small fluctuation, about half a degree Fahrenheit, in core body temperature. In menopausal women, that narrow window of climate control slams shut. A tiny uptick in core body temperature can spark a tsunami of sweat.
Initial forays into isolating testoterone had measly yields. A German scientist isolated it from men's urine, collecting 0.005 of an ounce from 3,960 gallons of pee.
We don't really know what constitutes low testosterone. Normal levels are 300-1000 nanograms per deciliter of blood. We don't know if falling levels are a normal part of the ageing process, or a sign of physical decline.
ER docs are more about diving in without knowing everything, not to compulsively need to know everything. They are willing to try.
Sexual orientation is whom you want to go to bed with, gender identity is who you want to go to bed as.
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Back then, hormones were boobs and periods and sex. But hormones are so much more. They are the potent chemicals that control metabolism, behaviour, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing - not just puberty and sex.
Starling's clear definition of hormones: They are substances secreted by a gland that target a distant site, they travel via the blood; they are crucial for the maintenance of the body, they are crucial to survival.
Dating, in Hopkins parlance, usually meant studying together in the library.
It would be easy to underestimate or ignore Radioimmunoassay altogether. It's technical, hard to understand. It's neither a cure nor a discovery; it's simply a way to measure. And yet it's hard to underestimate the significance of this invention, the impact it has had on the way science is done today. RIA provided doctors with a whole new vision. It was as if someone had lifted their blindfolds, and they could finally see what they were doing.
Most people don't notice a small fluctuation, about half a degree Fahrenheit, in core body temperature. In menopausal women, that narrow window of climate control slams shut. A tiny uptick in core body temperature can spark a tsunami of sweat.
Initial forays into isolating testoterone had measly yields. A German scientist isolated it from men's urine, collecting 0.005 of an ounce from 3,960 gallons of pee.
We don't really know what constitutes low testosterone. Normal levels are 300-1000 nanograms per deciliter of blood. We don't know if falling levels are a normal part of the ageing process, or a sign of physical decline.
ER docs are more about diving in without knowing everything, not to compulsively need to know everything. They are willing to try.
Sexual orientation is whom you want to go to bed with, gender identity is who you want to go to bed as.
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January 17, 2019
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January 24, 2019
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January 26, 2019
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January 26, 2019
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