Mood swings, metabolism, behavior, dream, immune system, pubescence and sex - it only some of things that is controlled by means of hormones. Armed with the dose of wit and curiosity, the medical journalist of Рэнди of Хаттер Epstein sends us in complete love affairs trip on extraordinarily keen history of these drastic chemicals - from dank basement of the nineteenth century filled by brains, to the fashionable hormonal clinic twenty the first century in Los Angeles.Filled with a sparkling humour through that major medical researches are illuminated, this book imagines leading scientists-endocrinologies, their brilliant opening a hormonal disbalance so often disturbing us. It is a book about quacks that used the front-rank scientific opening in the insidious aims - for a sale false medications and achievement of the personal prosperity. Epstein exposes the curtain of secret, admitting a reader in the not simple world of medicine with the rich set of personages, including the doctor of 1920th, propagandizing вазэктомию as method to promote a libido, student-physician, that opened the "hormone of pregnancy" in 1940th, and mother that collected hypophyses from dead bodies as a source of growth hormone for treatment of the son. In passing Epstein investigates the functions of basic hormones of our organism, such as лептин, Oxytocinum, estrogen and orchidic hormone, демистифицируя science about endocrinology, and gives to us to understand important truth - exactly hormones control us!