Hormones

• Hormones: Chemicals released by glands that travel through the bloodstream to other parts of the body and only affect Target Cells controlling things in organs/cells that need Constant Adjustment.
• Adrenaline: From Adrenal Glands, Prepare body for 'Fight/Flight' response, Increase Heart Rate+Blood flow to muscles and Blood Sugar Level
• How does Adrenaline effect the body?

  Increase Heart rate, Blood Flow to muscles and Blood Sugar Level
• Insulin: From Pancreas, Help Control Blood Sugar Level, Stimulates liver to turn Glucose into Glycogen for storage
• What is the effect of Insulin on the body?

  Stimulates liver to turn glucose into glycogen for storage
• Testosterone: From Testes, Male Sex Hormone, Promotes Male Secondary Sexual Characteristics
• Progesterone: From Ovaries, Support Pregnancy, Maintain Lining of Uterus
• Oestrogen: From Ovaries, Female Sex Hormone, Control Menstrual Cycle and Promote Female Secondary Sex Characteristics and Growth/Repair of Uterus Lining
• ADH: From Pituitary Gland, Control Water Content, Increases Permeability of the Kidney Tubules to water
• FSH: From Pituitary Gland, Female sex hormone, Causes Egg to start maturing in Ovary, it also stimulates the ovaries to start Releasing Oestrogen
• LH: From Pituitary Gland, Female sex hormone, Stimulates the Release of an Egg from an Ovary