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The Truth About Hormones: An Up-to-the-minute, Highly Entertaining Guide to Those Mysteriously Powerful Things, Hormones (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books (10 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843544288
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843544289
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 374,802 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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What's 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, water balance, body clocks, fertility, muscle tone, mood, the speed of ageing, whether you want sex or not (and whether you enjoy it) and even who we fall in love with. Their effects may occur in seconds and be over in a flash, or take months and last for thirty years. While we can name some hormones we rarely know what they actually do. But that doesn't stop us claiming that 'it's my hormones' whenever our behaviour seems erratic. As it happens, we're right. It is our hormones. And yes, we are completely in the thrall of things we know nothing about. In The Truth About Hormones Vivienne Parry explains how, exactly, these mysteriously powerful things affect us. The Truth About Hormones is also a treasure trove of fascinating stories. For example: Were Brad Pitt a true Trojan, he would have practised the first known instance of hormone replacement therapy, by eating the glands of his dead conquests. It's a fact that growth hormone that is released mainly at night. Cut back on sleep and your growth can be stunted. The hormones used for infertility treatment are still manufactured using nun's urine, collected daily from the Vatican City.


About the Author

VIVIENNE PARRY is a science commentator for the Guardian and the science editor of Good Housekeeping magazine. She has been a presenter of the BBC science programme, Tomorrow's World, a columnist for the News of the World and a reporter for Panorama.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant science writer, 6 Mar 2006
By J. adams "John Adams" (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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It is impossible to think of anyone to whom, or for whom, this book is not relevant. The challenging tone is set in the first sentence: “Hormones rule your world.” “Oh no they don’t”, I reply to myself - or more precisely, as befits my senior citizen status - “Oh no they didn’t.” But read on.

It has life-altering messages for parents, teenagers, teachers, prison and parole officers, judges, juries, doctors, menopausal women, fading Don Juans, and everyone else I have neglected to list. She explains science to non-scientists in a clear, amusing, non-condescending, and utterly riveting way.

The book deserves a central role in all debates about nature versus nurture. The penultimate sentence asserts “Hormones rule your internal world." The addition of the word “internal” saves the book from a depressingly deterministic fate:
“As for hormone determinism – in particular that levels of testosterone decide the future direction of people’s lives – I am suspicious, yet recognize all the same what testosterone does show us about teenagers – which is that keeping the wrong company can set behaviour, and turn a potential leader into a gang member with no future.”

Vivienne Parry is a brilliant science writer. Buy this book or, if your hormones dictate, steal it. If you avoid being caught for shoplifting it may save you from a life of crime.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Too light, too many claims, too little to back it up, 26 Jun 2008
By Särelä Mikko - See all my reviews
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I was disappointed in this book. I was hoping for a book that would actually explain how hormones affect us, in the sense of having an in depth lay person understandable discussion of how hormones do the work they do. How do specific hormones affect the neurons in our brains.

Instead what I got was this book that asks me to take everything by faith. It is no way to write a science book for literate people. It has loads and loads of claims with few or no explanations backing them up. The claims about how different hormones affect our minds, or our immune systems are unsubstantiated - note that I don't say they are wrong; the author just does not explain the mechanisms of how they do what the book claims they do, leaving the reader in a difficult position of either accepting the claims at face value or not at all.

Basically, the book is on par with Cosmopolitan on the level of discussion. If that's the level you're comfortable with, go ahead. It's probably more right about things than Cosmo - but if it isn't you won't be able to know it.
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