Human Hormones

Hormones, we've all got them. We all make them. We all share them. That is unless a gland responsible for the production of them isn't missing or nonfunctional.

Hormones are funny things, not "ha-ha" funny, but strange funny. Scientists have known about them for quite some time. That doesn't mean they know how they work. In fact, I've read the pamphlets that come with some replacement hormones, and that is stated, they know the structure of the molecule, they know the proper levels a body should have, they know the effects of too much or too little of them, but they don't know what they actually do, within a cell that is.

When the levels start changing drastically, they affect emotions. We've all heard of 'Roid Rage, and PMS. Now emotions are part of what we think of when we think of personalities. Personalities are something we think of when we think of specific persons. Persons are what we think of when we think of what it is to be human.

Humanity is something I think about a lot. What it is to be human. How there are people who don't have the expected emotions that we think of as human. How some guys are more feminine than others, how some gals are more masculine than others, how some people are more even tempered than others.

I had my thyroid go wacko about 10 years ago, it started producing gobs and gobs of thyroxine, a condition known as hyperthyroidism or Graves disease. I lost about 40 pounds in about 5 months. I was eating like there was no tomorrow, 4 times a day. I'd have 3 egg mcmuffins, a large coffee with 6 sugars and 6 creams and a hashbrown for breakfast. I'd have 2 quarter pounders, a supersize fry and a coke or a chocolate shake, for the other three meals. I was still losing weight.

I couldn't keep still either, while I was sitting I'd be bouncing my knee, to the point of actually having the floor (concrete) shaking due to the sympathetic vibrations. People could feel it across the room and I didn't even know I was doing it. People would tell me to stop and I would. As soon as I took my mind off of it, I started again, not 2 minutes after. I would fall asleep so fast, within seconds of lying down, because I'd burned all the energy from my body.

It caused me to have a swollen intestine, which gave me a persistent case of loose bowels. Uhg. That was horrible. The worst part by far though was the way it affected my emotions. I would anger in a split second. I would (I'm not proud of this part) cry with the slightest provocation.

All of this because a of an organ that was normally (not in my case at that time) smaller than a McDonald's hamburger patty, after cooking. All because of chemicals that are measured in minute amounts in the bloodstream. All because of hormones.

I had it removed, because I didn't want any radioactive chemicals in me. Now I take replacement hormones. Its funny though, it made me more human.