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hormone

[hawr-mohn] / ˈhɔr moʊn /


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"Ultra-processed food triggers dopamine, the pleasure hormone, which promotes craving. Food companies work with scientists to find just the right amount of sugar, salt, and fat that make you want to eat more and more."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Nobel season opens Monday with the medicine prize, which experts say could go to research into the GLP-1 appetite-regulating hormone behind weight-loss drugs like Ozempic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The experimental injection, eloralintide, which mimics a hormone called amylin that helps signal fullness after eating, was studied in combination with a Zepbound shot in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The natural hormone melatonin rises before bedtime, making us feel sleepy.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The ability to marry and pass as a normal woman in society are also important goals, both of which will not be possible without feminizing surgery and hormone treatment.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Research into hormones that regulate appetite is on everybody's lips for the Nobel medicine prize, to be announced on Monday when the 2026 Nobel season kicks off.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Bison, it turned out, could pay their own way as meat—leaner than beef, raised without added hormones, and increasingly sought by Americans favoring whole, unprocessed food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Those properties stem from the way the plant's compounds - like 7-Hydroxymitragynine - activate various hormones, including dopamine.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

It can detect a variety of signaling molecules, including hormones and growth factors, and convert those signals into instructions that guide cellular behavior.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

I’m taken to the doctor’s once a month, for tests: urine, hormones, cancer smear, blood test; the same as before, except that now it’s obligatory.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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