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And the adrenal glands make androgens, which are a masculinizing hormone.
And in the review, what they were interested in seeing is what kind of stresses most reliably raise levels of cortisol, the central stress hormone.
And the daf-2 gene encodes a hormone receptor.
So what you see in the picture there is a cell with a hormone receptor in red punching through the edge of the cell.
Part of it's on the outside, and it's catching the hormone as it comes by in green.
So that means that the normal function of this hormone receptor is to speed up aging.
The daf-2 hormone receptor is very similar to the receptor for the hormone insulin and IGF-1.
Insulin is a hormone that promotes the uptake of nutrients into your tissues after you eat a meal.
And the hormone IGF-1 promotes growth.
So after we made our discoveries with little C. elegans, people who worked on other kinds of animals started asking, if we made the same daf-2 mutation, the hormone receptor mutation, in other animals, will they live longer?
If you change this hormone pathway in flies, they live longer.
So how can a hormone ultimately affect the rate of aging?
What we proposed, and what we've now generated support for, is that what atrazine is doing is wreaking havoc causing a hormone imbalance.
Normally the testes should make testosterone, the male hormone.
And as a result, these exposed males lose their testosterone, they're chemically castrated, and they're subsequently feminized because now they're making the female hormone.
And what's interesting about BPA is that it's such a potent estrogen that it was actually once considered for use as a synthetic estrogen in hormone placement therapy.
The evidence of that is that studies in rats, again with atrazine, show that the hormone imbalance atrazine generates causes abortion.
And the frogs that are exposed to atrazine, the testes are full of holes and spaces, because the hormone imbalance, instead of allowing sperm to be generated, such as in the testis here, the testicular tubules end up empty and fertility goes down by as much as 50 percent.
It told us about hormone replacement therapy.
We all know what happened when millions of women were given hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms for decades until all of a sudden we realized, because a study came out, a big one, NIH-funded.
It said, actually, a lot of that hormone replacement therapy may be doing more harm than good for many of those women.
Here's one more secret for you: Shaking someone's hand for six seconds dramatically raises the level of oxytocin in your bloodstream, now that's the trust hormone.
Physiologically, there also are differences on two key hormones: testosterone, which is the dominance hormone, and cortisol, which is the stress hormone.
No, it's a hormone called oxytocin.
You can think of insulin as this master hormone that controls what our body does with the foods we eat, whether we burn it or store it.
Well, sleep loss seems to give rise to the release of the hormone ghrelin, the hunger hormone.
To understand this side of stress, we need to talk about a hormone, oxytocin, and I know oxytocin has already gotten as much hype as a hormone can get.
It even has its own cute nickname, the cuddle hormone, because it's released when you hug someone.
It's a stress hormone.
Your heart has receptors for this hormone, and oxytocin helps heart cells regenerate and heal from any stress-induced damage.
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