Excited: The mysterious history of endocrinology. Power hormones that control our whole life (and even more)

Mood swings, metabolism, behavior, sleep, immune system, puberty and sex: these are only some of the things that are controlled using hormones. Armed with a dose of wit and curiosity, medical journalist Randy Hatter Epstein sends us a complete intrigue to a journey through the unusually exciting history of these potent chemicals - from the dank basement of the nineteenth century, filled with brains, to the fashionable hormonal clinic of the twenty -first century in Los Angeles.
Filled by sparkling humor, with the help of which the most important medical studies are highlighted, this book represents leading endocrinologists, their brilliant discoveries about hormonal imbalance, so often bothering us. This is a book about charlatans that used advanced scientific discoveries for their insidious goals - to sell false drugs and achieve personal well -being. Epstein reveals a veil of secrets, letting the reader into a difficult world of medicine with a rich set of characters, including a doctor of the 1920s, promoting a vasectomy as a way to increase libido, a medical student who opened a “hormone of pregnancy” in the 1940s, and a mother who is who has a mother that is collected pituitary glands from corpses as a source of growth hormone for the treatment of her son. Along the way, Epstein explores the functions of the main hormones of our body, such as leptin, oxytocin, estrogen and testosterone, demistifying the science of endocrinology and gives us to understand the important truth - it is hormones that control us!