Perepady nastroeniya, metabolizm, povedenie, son, immunnaya sistema, polovoe sozrevanie i seks: eto lish‘ nekotorye iz veshchey, kotorye kontroliruyutsya s pomoshch’yu gormonov. Vooruzhennyy dozoy ostroumiya i lyubopytstva, medicinskiy zhurnalist Rendi Hatter Epshteyn otpravlyaet nas v polnoe intrig puteshestvie po neobychayno zahvatyvayushchey istorii etih sil’nodeystvuyushchih himikatov – ot promozglogo podvala devyatnadcatogo veka, zapolnennogo mozgami, do feshenebel’noy gormonal’noy kliniki dvadcat‘ pervogo veka v Los-Andzhelese. Napolnennaya iskrometnym yumorom, pri pomoshchi kotorogo osveshchayutsya vazhneyshie medicinskie issledovaniya, eta kniga predstavlyaet vedushchih uchenyh-endokrinologov, ih blestyashchie otkrytiya o gormonal’nom disbalanse, tak chasto bespokoivshem nas. Eto kniga pro sharlatanov, kotorye ispol’zovali peredovye nauchnye otkrytiya v svoih kovarnyh celyah – dlya prodazhi lozhnyh lekarstv i dostizheniya lichnogo blagopoluchiya. Epshteyn raskryvaet zavesu tayny, vpuskaya chitatelya v neprostoy mir mediciny s bogatym naborom personazhey, vklyuchaya doktora 1920-h godov, propagandiruyushchego vazektomiyu kak sposob povysit‘ libido, studentku-medika, kotoraya otkryla ‚gormon beremennosti‘ v 1940-h godah, i mat‘, kotoraya sobirala gipofizy ot trupov, v kachestve istochnika gormona rosta dlya lecheniya svoego syna. Poputno Epshteyn issleduet funkcii osnovnyh gormonov nashego organizma, takih kak leptin, oksitocin, estrogen i testosteron, demistificiruya nauku ob endokrinologii i daet nam ponyat‘ vazhnuyu istinu – imenno gormony kontroliruyut nas!
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