Ever wonder why you feel like crying over a pet food commercial one day but can watch a tearjerker movie completely unfazed the next? Or why your weight seems to fluctuate despite eating the same ...

Your body’s internal clock isn’t just about feeling sleepy – it’s orchestrating a complex hormonal ballet that affects everything from your mood to your metabolism. We often think about sleep as ...

Hormones are the body’s chemical messengers. They act on various tissues and organs in the body to change their behavior. For example, the hormone prolactin stimulates the production of breastmilk.

Your body follows a circadian rhythm that influences everything from how well your medications work to the best time for ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

In a previous post, I discussed the connection between the mind and the skin. In that article, I called for patients and clinicians to become more aware of the relationship between cutaneous and ...

Androgens like testosterone are male hormones that help regulate sex characteristics in the body. Everyone has androgens, but those born with male sex traits typically have higher levels. Here’s what ...

Your thyroid gland plays a vital role in keeping your body balanced by producing hormones like triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). But when these thyroid hormones become too high; a condition ...

Menopause has the potential to impact your entire body, with some changes being more noticeable than others, according to ...

Melbourne researchers have discovered gender-affirming hormone therapy can alter body proteins to match a person's gender ...