THE TRUTH ABOUT HORMONES
Book ID/图书代码： 00970004B08793
English Summary/英文概要： What’s going on when we’re tetchy, spotty, fearful, tearful or just plain awful? Hormones rule our internal world: they control our growth, our metabolism, weight, water balance, body clocks, fertility, muscle tone, mood, the speed of ageing, whether you want sex or not (and whether you enjoy it) and even who we fall in love with. Their effects may occur in seconds and be over in a flash, or take months and last for thirty years. While we can name some hormones we rarely know what they actually do. But that doesn’t stop us claiming that ‘it’s my hormones’ whenever our behaviour seems erratic. As it happens, we’re right. It is our hormones. And yes, we are completely in the thrall of things we know nothing about. In The Truth About Hormones Vivienne Parry explains how, exactly, these mysteriously powerful things affect us. The Truth About Hormones is also a treasure trove of fascinating stories. For example: Were Brad Pitt a true Trojan, he would have practised the first known instance of hormone replacement therapy, by eating the glands of his dead conquests. It’s a fact that growth hormone that is released mainly at night. Cut back on sleep and your growth can be stunted. The hormones used for infertility treatment are still manufactured using nun’s urine, collected daily from the Vatican City.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 荷尔蒙掌管我们的内在世界：他们控制我们的生长、新陈代谢、体重、水分均衡、生物钟、生育能力、肌肉形状、情绪、老化速度，性欲甚至爱情的欲望。荷尔蒙的影响力有时只是瞬间产生、瞬间消失，有的则可能要好几个月才能出现作用，而这样的作用力会持续三十年。
虽然我们可以叫出一部分荷尔蒙的名字，但是对他们的真正功能我们又了解多少呢。但这并不妨碍我们在行为失常的时候这样说：“这是荷尔蒙”
这倒是说对了。就是我们的荷尔蒙在作祟，是的我们就被那些未知的东西束缚了。《荷尔蒙的故事》撩开了荷尔蒙的神秘面纱，揭示它的神奇作用。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Vivienne Parry is a writer and broadcaster. Familiar as the presenter of many Radio 4 series on medicine, she writes a medical science column for The Times and is the science editor of Good Housekeeping magazine. She has been a presenter of Tomorrow’s World, a columnist for the News of the World, and a reporter for Panorama. The Truth About Hormones was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize in 2006.
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