Category Hormones

Book Review: The Birth of the Pill

by Kim Cook in Birth Control, For Parents, Hormones, Planned Parenthood, The PIll
January 26, 2015July 1, 2020

Book Review The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig   Despite being an avid reader, I am not one to ...

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Puberty…a time of perfecting the eyeball roll.

by Kim Cook in Conversation, Estrogen, For Parents, Hormones, Menstruation, Parents of Adolescents, Puberty, Testosterone
June 25, 2014July 1, 2020

I was, once again, perusing the vast wasteland of time known as Facebook, when I happened upon this hysterical ad: First Moon Party Okay. I know. Pretty funny, huh? I ...

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Hey! It’s not MY fault! It’s my HORMONES!

by Kim Cook in Estrogen, For Parents, Gonads, Hormones, Hypothalamus, Intersex, ovaries, Physicians, Pituitary Gland, Progesterone, Testes, Testosterone
January 12, 2014July 1, 2020

Let me begin this by saying that when I was in nursing school, the endocrine system (hormones) bored me. Why? It was so confusing! They all sounded alike, and they ...

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