MSN: Type 2 Diabetes and You: Managing Fertility, Hormones, and Everyday Wellness News Medical: Study explores link between sex hormones and heart disease risk in type 2 diabetes Study explores link between sex hormones and heart disease risk in type 2 diabetes What are hormones? Hormones are chemicals that coordinate different functions in your body by carrying messages through your blood to your organs, skin, muscles and other tissues. These signals tell your body what to do and when to do it.

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Hormones are essential for life and your health. Hormones are required for the normal development of animals, plants and fungi. Due to the broad definition of a hormone (as a signaling molecule that exerts its effects far from its site of production), numerous kinds of molecules can be classified as hormones. Hormones are signaling molecules secreted by endocrine organs that regulate physiological processes in target cells.

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They control growth, development, metabolism, reproduction, mood, and homeostasis. The endocrine system uses hormones to control and coordinate your body's internal metabolism (or homeostasis) energy level, reproduction, growth and development, and response to injury, stress, and environmental factors. A hormone is an organic substance secreted by plants and animals that functions in the regulation of physiological activities and in maintaining homeostasis. Hormones carry out their functions by evoking responses from specific organs or tissues.