How do your hormones work

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What are hormones?

Hormones are chemicals that coordinate many bodily processes by sending information to your skin, muscles, organs, and other tissues through your blood.

Your body receives these messages that instruct it when and what to do.

There are currently approximately 50 hormones known to science in the human body.

Your endocrine system is made up of the majority of tissues (mostly glands) that produce and release hormones.

What do hormones do?

Hormones are chemical messengers that control and influence a vast array of bodily functions. A bodily process frequently requires a series of hormone reactions.

Only when a hormone "fits," or when the cells in the target tissue have receptors that can pick up the hormone's message, will that hormone have an effect on that area of your body.

Think of the cells in a hormone's target tissue, such as fat tissue or an organ, as specialized locks and the hormone as a key. The hormone will transmit a message that prompts the target site to do a certain activity if it matches the lock (receptor) on the cell wall.

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