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hormone

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In addition to slowing you down and sapping your endurance, running too many miles on too little rest can lead to a host of problems ranging from hormone imbalances to shin splints to tendon strains.

Obesity is associated with alterations of certain hormone levels that we think might have a carcinogenic effect.

Uncertainty about what will happen next can trigger our body’s fight or flight response, spiking stress hormones like serotonin.

Serotonin is known as the “happy hormone,” as it regulates mood, body temperature and appetite.

What’s more, a 2007 study published in the journal Sleep shows that with each additional uninterrupted sleep cycle, you generate more of these hormones.

You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.

He was prescribed a course of hormone pills that caused him to grow breasts and rendered him impotent.

McAndrews agreed that the androgenic hormone pill would be problematic for those with a genetic propensity for ADA.

What if they were to measure body composition or hormone levels or metabolic rate?

The HPA axis is a circuit between your brain, your hormone glands, and the rest of your body.

It is simply all the endocrine or hormone-producing organs organized into a balanced chemical system—adjusted to each other.

This is unquestionably to be interpreted as a case of hormone action.

Our modern conception of hormone action shows certain resemblances with this theory.

Doubtless plants produce in their leaves a hormone which directs certain enzymes that conduct wound repair by cell division.

Yes, sir; he was given 300 milligrams of hydrocortisone which is an adrenal hormone.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hormone, such as: condom, diaphragm, pill, armor, coil, and foam.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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