Introduction, Hormone Deception, D. Lindsey Berkson Hormones . They make us fertile, support pregnancy, make us crave chocolate, put pimples on our teenager's chin, and bring about The Change. Hormones play our lives like instruments, constantly influencing and fascinating us.
Hormones tell our bodies when to start developing breasts or producing sperm.
Hormones direct the cells in the fetus, guiding them to become cells of the reproductive organs, cells of the brain or the various glands, cells of all the particular tissues of our bodies. Betsy says she's living in hormonal hell. I'm starting to have hot flashes and my doctor wants me to take hormones because my mother had osteoporosis. In a way, Betsy is right. Hormones regulate puberty, fertility, pregnancy, and menopause.