Our bodies contain chemicals called hormones. These chemicals are the body’s messenger system for various systems and processes, including the menstrual cycle. An imbalance can arise if you have too ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Similar to monthly hormonal cycles that many cisgender women experience, cis men also experience hormone cycling with testosterone, a masculinizing sex hormone. Rather than monthly cycles, though, ...

Hormones may not be the first thing you think of when it comes to your health—unless you’ve spent any time on TikTok recently. If your body’s moderating chemicals aren’t being churned out at exactly ...

More than 90% of women say they experience premenstrual symptoms of some kind, according to the Office on Women's Health, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Symptoms may ...

Nicholas Fuller works for the University of Sydney and has received external funding for projects relating to the treatment of overweight and obesity. He is the author and founder of the Interval ...

Cisgender women and others assigned female at birth are twice as likely as cisgender men and others assigned male at birth to develop dry eye, and hormones are a likely cause. Estrogen and ...

In a TikTok video posted earlier this year, content creator Isabella Mainwaring says that “hormone imbalances” had taken away 10 years of happiness from her life. Acne, bloating, difficulty in losing ...