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You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.
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He was prescribed a course of hormone pills that caused him to grow breasts and rendered him impotent.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero|Clive Irving|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
McAndrews agreed that the androgenic hormone pill would be problematic for those with a genetic propensity for ADA.
Birth Control Made My Hair Fall Out, and I’m Not the Only One|Molly Oswaks|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What if they were to measure body composition or hormone levels or metabolic rate?
‘The Biggest Loser’ Could Be TV’s Most Important Show Ever|Daniela Drake|September 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The HPA axis is a circuit between your brain, your hormone glands, and the rest of your body.
We're Talking About Depression All Wrong|Jean Kim|August 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is simply all the endocrine or hormone-producing organs organized into a balanced chemical system—adjusted to each other.
Taboo and Genetics|Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
This is unquestionably to be interpreted as a case of hormone action.
The Organism as a Whole|Jacques Loeb
Our modern conception of hormone action shows certain resemblances with this theory.
On the Natural Faculties|Galen
Doubtless plants produce in their leaves a hormone which directs certain enzymes that conduct wound repair by cell division.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting|Northern Nut Growers Association
Yes, sir; he was given 300 milligrams of hydrocortisone which is an adrenal hormone.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy