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hormone

[hawr-mohn] / ˈhɔr moʊn /


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Biden announced the diagnosis two days later and began receiving hormone and radiation therapy immediately.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

An important limitation is that the research was cross-sectional, meaning dietary intake and hormone measurements were examined without tracking how changes in protein consumption affected testosterone over time.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

Several that the human body naturally produces have been turned into effective medications, including insulin, human growth hormone and glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

He has since undergone radiation and hormone therapy, while his son Hunter said in August that the disease had spread further and was causing considerable pain.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy in each other’s presence, that’s dopamine, the pleasure hormone, doing its work.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

The rare cancer, which starts in the nerve and cell glands that make and release hormones, is estimated to affect 6,000 people in the UK every year, according to the charity, Neuroendocrine Cancer UK.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

They produce and release the hormones that essentially regulate our different body functions and are found throughout the body.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

This method identifies molecules by measuring characteristics related to their mass, but the sheer number of possible peptides makes searching for new hormones a demanding process.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

One of the hormones produced through this process is GLP-1, the same hormone whose effects semaglutide mimics.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and organisms.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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