Key Highlights
- Here, experts on hormonal and metabolic health explain how to stay wellGet to know your hormones“Most people would like to have more energy and be leaner,” says Prof David Ray, an endocrinologist at the University of Oxford who also provides NHS services.
- “There is a connection between how we choose to live, what our bodies look and feel like, and the hormones that are going around the body.
- What endocrinologists deal with is disorders of either a lack of hormones, or too much of a hormone.”Hormones impact almost all bodily functions, from skin, to the gut, to our moods.
- “During an average day, the hormones in our body will vary depending on what time it is and what we’re doing,” he says.
- “For example, have we recently had something to eat or are we hungry?

