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Hormones write life''s masterplan: building a baby in utero, growing a rough-and-tumble toddler, lengthening our bones to conjure the adult form, igniting the firestorm of puberty and directing conception, menopause and beyond. All the while, they are controlling our minute-to-minute experiences, from our appetite to our mood, our libido to our stress levels. Here, leading endocrinologist Dr Saira Hameed reveals our astonishing inner communication network - the endocrine lifeforce - in a story of the chemistry of life itself. Combining science, history, and compassionately told patient stories, Signals shows that - rather than good manners or willpower - it is our hormones that control us. Understanding our health and happiness depends on recognising their fundamental power.
About the author
Dr Saira Hameed is a Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Senior Tutor and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She studied medicine at Oxford University and University College London and has been a Medical Research Council Training Fellow and National Institute for Health and Care Research Clinical Lecturer. Dr Hameed holds a PhD in neuroendocrinology from Imperial College London and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Full Diet and the accompanying The Full Diet Cookbook. She lives in London with her husband and four children.
