Hormone

//ˈhɔːməʊn//

"Hormone" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Female hormone imbalance is a major cause of infertility.

Estrogen is a hormone.

Doctors are about to repeat the disaster of hormone replacement therapy in women.

Love is nothing more than a temporary hormone imbalance.

The psychiatric diagnosis known as gender dysphoria can be induced in a cisgender person through the same hormone therapy that treats it in transgender people, as it was by the British government in Alan Turing, causing him to commit suicide.

Testosterone is the hormone of aggressivity.

Harvard scientists have measured the amount of male hormone in the saliva of 58 single and married men with or without children.

Tom is on hormone therapy.

The OXT gene is responsible for the generation of a substance called oxytocin, often referred to as the “love hormone.”

She takes hormone replacements.

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Interfemale dominance may be facilitated by female sex hormones as well as adrenal testosterone...

Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.

The text recounts a 2011 experiment: Researchers tested 136 healthy young men’s testosterone levels, asked them about their political party affiliations, then gave them either a placebo or ten grams of AndroGel one percent, a high-end dose of a common form of testosterone often used in hormone replacement therapies. […] Alogaily and the paper’s co-authors argued that this is “evidence that neuro-active hormones affect political preferences”.

Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones […]

Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.

I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.

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