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Oh, my. Hello, you're listening to the Science of Everything podcast, episode 134, hormones and the endocrine

system. I'm your host, James Fodall. So in today's episode, we're going to tackle another of

the systems in the body, the endocrine system. This is one that receives a fair bit of popular

attention, although usually not under the name of the endocrine system.

I think people typically just talk about hormones more commonly, but the endocrine system is

effectively the system that synthesizes, distributes, and kind of modulates the effect of hormones.

So in this episode, we're going to be covering that.

We're going to be talking about what hormones are, different types of hormones and how they act.

We'll talk a bit about pheromones, which are a special type of hormone that is of interest. We'll talk about how hormones are regulated, and we'll focus on the role of the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland

as two of the major body regions which are responsible for regulating hormones by generating hormones

themselves we'll then talk about many of the major glands within the endocrine

system including the thyroid adrenal thymus and reproductive organs which are

also glands of the endocrine system recommended pre-listing is episode 38

neurons and synapses.

You may also be interested in checking out episode 118 on cell signaling,

as that is very closely related to the mechanisms of hormone action,

which is one of the topics we'll be talking about.

But without further ado,

let's get started and start by talking about what are hormones and what is the endocrine

system. So the endocrine system is the bodily system that regulates the activity of target

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