Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

Whenever one experiences growth hormones, peptide hormones, thyroid hormones, stress hormones or sex hormones, the body's chemical messengers play a key role in many essential bodily functions and ...

The androgen receptor is a key transcriptional factor for the proper sex development —specially in males— and the physiological balance of all the tissues that express this receptor. The androgen ...

No amount of sleep is enough. Sex is much less interesting than it used to be. You wonder if you have depression. At work, you aren’t as sharp as you used to be, and struggle to focus throughout the ...

Testosterone, the primary sex hormone in men, plays a vital role in male reproductive development and function, as well as other functions like bone density and muscle mass. Testosterone levels ...

The androgen receptor is the primary driver of the initiation and growth of prostate cancer, the second-leading cause of death in men. Looking to have a better understanding of how the androgen ...

Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have glimpsed never-before-seen details of the human androgen receptor — the protein inside of cells that responds to male-typical hormones ...