How Your Hormones Actually Work and Influence You

Did you know that your brain is constantly communicating with the rest of your body, sending special chemicals called hormones from one nerve to another?
Don't underestimate the power of hormones: these microscopic guys influence how your brain works and can increase or decrease your energy level, sex drive, and fat storage. They can even control your emotions and mood! In short, they’re tiny, but they pack a mighty punch!
TIMESTAMPS
Dopamine 0:38
Serotonin 2:32
Oxytocin 3:44
Melatonin 5:27
Endorphins 7:33
Adrenaline (also known as epinephrine) 9:20
Norepinephrine (noradrenaline) 10:36
SUMMARY
- Dopamine can make or break your work ethic. It can motivate you to work hard to achieve some result. By studying rats, scientists noticed a strange tendency. The animals were given a choice between two piles of food: a small one or a big one.
- This hormone is one of the “happiness hormones”. Surprisingly, 90% of this chemical is in your intestines and blood platelets, which means that serotonin also plays an important role in digestive health.
- Oxytocin boosts your feeling of love and trust, which is why being in a relationship makes people happy. High levels of oxytocin help you effectively fight stress and even lower your blood pressure.
- Melatonin sets the pace for your body, letting it know what time of the day it is and even the time of the year. As soon as the sun sets, the pineal gland in your brain gets down to work pumping out melatonin which, in turn, makes you sleepy. The amount of this chemical in the system reaches its peak at 2 or 3 a.m.
- Endorphins don’t get rid of pain completely; they just decrease its intensity. That’s why you can often find these chemicals in pharmaceutical painkillers. Another cool thing about endorphins is that they can make you feel high absolutely legally!
- Although some people believe that adrenaline lessens our pain, it's not exactly true. To be more precise, it makes you concentrate on the most urgent task at the moment, so you won't pay attention to your scraped knee while escaping from a burning building.
- The effect noradrenaline has on your body is elevated blood pressure, dilated pupils, increased heart rate, and widened air passages. Not to mention, this hormone redirects the flow of blood from your skin to your muscles. That's what your body needs to operate well in potentially dangerous or highly stressful situations.
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