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Testosterone15 August 2005
What is the truth about the male hormone?

2005 marks 100 years since the word hormone was first used by the physiologist Ernest Starling, in a series of lectures to the Royal College of Physicians.

Testosterone is well-known as the hormone which can turn your lovely little boy into a spotty teenager obsessed with sex, but in fact there's a lot more to testosterone and it’s not only men who produce it. Women have it too.

Claudia Hammond meets up with Vivienne Parry, author of The Truth About Hormones to see just what testosterone does.


The Truth About Hormones
Vivienne Parry
Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1843544288




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