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Hormones animate every aspect and every moment of our lives, controlling our milestone moments as well as our day-to-day emotions and behaviour. Dr Saira Hameed is one of the UK's leading endocrinologists and in Signals she invites us into her clinic to see the lives interrupted by misfiring hormones and how fixing the problem recalibrates a life. We sit beside Dr Hameed as she hears stories from spirit-sapping exhaustion to agonising infertility, absent libido to frenzied disorientation. Signals takes us on a journey inside our bodies to reveal the spectacular endocrine life force at work.

“Signals is a special book, … [an] utterly fascinating guide to who you are and how you work. It's compassionate, humane and grounded in the author's deep clinical experience. A true gift.” ―Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Henry...