How do your hormones work? - Emma Bryce

Over our lifetimes, our bodies undergo a series of extraordinary metamorphoses: we grow, experience puberty, and many of us reproduce. Behind the scenes, the endocrine system works constantly to orchestrate these changes. Emma Bryce explains how this system regulates everything from your sleep to the rhythm of your beating heart, exerting its influence over each and every one of your cells.

Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Daniel Gray.

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[johnbagel]

My high school teachers liked to call us bags of hormones, which I think is quite fitting.

[CuriosityCulture]

It's funny how I learn more from this video than a 50 minute class. Well done!

[liquidminds]

My hormones work just like me. Slow, without motivation and just because we have to.

[kirbymarchbarcena]

Adding quotes at the beginning make this video more interesting.

[thecomprehensionhub]

I'm so grateful to live in a time where i can look up a question to something that I am curious to get the scientific explanation for, and can come to TED Ed for an simply eloquent explanation that has scientific basis. And the cherry on the top is that it is wonderfully accompanied by creatively engaging animations. THANK YOU to all those who put time and effort into these videos. They are truly educating people more effectively than public schools ever had since their existence.

[daffarioh]

Does the legend that says "if you are this early, ted will reply" still work?

[nehakiran]

this is how I study for my exams. thanks Ted-ed

[bumpom]

I'm very much loving those quotes you put before the content.

[bumpom]

I am making a life goal where one day I can animate for TED-Ed! (at least dreaming is free ;-;)

[aurionjohnson]

3:07-3:17 The most efficient 10-second rendering of puberty ever animated.

[weskal]

So I'm not lazy then; I'm just Endocrinologically demotivated.

[isakouhgard]

shout out to students who've been studying biology and specially me for being awake until 5AM for learning and studying biology and more

[alyssaalcantara]

Our bodies's capabilities are amazing! Our high-functioning systems work simultaneously to maintain homeostasis since the moment of conception until death. I love watching these type of videos and learning about biology. Although, it is an overwhelming amount of memorization, it is worth understanding how our bodies work.

[anmolgill]

This is amazing.... Learning with great animation!!!

Thnx everybody for so many likes😃

[LilChuunosuke]

Hormones are such a fascinating and important part of the body. I know my PCOS was triggered by a spike in male hormones in my system, but I'd love to know how many issues in my body may be caused by hormone irregularity, such as my insomnia.
It's just so crazy to me thinking about how many parts of my life would change if my hormone levels were normalized.

[meribarseghyan]

It's really interesting how our hormone changes effects this many things throughout the years of our lives and how hormonal changes can change our mood in seconds. And also I love the fact that hormones are basically messages that is delivered through blood vessels

[triciang]

Thank you for another great video ted ed :D

[ejmtv]

I love the fact that hormones are basically messages that is delivered through blood vessels like roads that can take you anywhere in the body and has an address for a specific part of the body that contains instructions for a specific cells to execute. It's basically how the brain and other organs communicate with each other.

[saygoodbye]

You can't imagine how long I've waited for this video, I always was wondering what hormones are and what they do. Now please do about proteins, some people believe that protein is something that only add muscles etc, but proteins are much, much more.

[siddharthdasari]

Thank you TED-Ed. This video helped me understand the fact that when hormones enter the bloodstream, they bind with receptors which in turn changes the way cells behave