Awards

• Short-listed for Aventis General Prize for Science Books 2006
• Shortlisted for Aventis General Prize for Science Books 2006.

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Hormones rule your internal world: they control your growth, your metabolism, weight, water balance, your body clocks, fertility, muscle tone, mood, the speed of ageing, whether you want sex or not (and whether you enjoy it) and even who you fall in love with. Their effects may occur in seconds and be over in a flash, or take months and last for thirty years.Whilst some hormones - like estrogen, testosterone or insulin - are very familiar, most are little known and, among the general public, none are understood. But not knowing what they do doesn't stop people claiming 'it's your hormones' whenever someone is tetchy, spotty, unhappy, fearful, tearful or just plain awful. As it happens, they are right. It is our hormones. And yes, we are completely in the thrall of things we know nothing about. Vivienne Parry tackles this strange and complex world for the first time. In a fascinating read, full of wonderful stories, she sheds some light on our conceptual darkness.

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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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