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Podcast: Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Episode: AROUSE yourself with Randi Hutter Epstein and the history of HORMONES
Description: How about a guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them?
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity, medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals from a basement filled with jarred nineteenth-century brains to a twenty-first-century hormone clinic in Los Angeles.
Brimming with fascinating anecdotes, illuminating new medical research, and humorous details, Aroused...