✨ New Notification
You've been added to Hormone HQ 📱
(I promise hormones make SO much more sense when you imagine you’re a phone...)
So... you're a phone 📱
Think of your hormones as notifications ✨
And Hormone HQ is the notification centre 🔔
Your body has different modes. Notifications. Messages.
Settings. And a whole load of things quietly running in the
background.
Your hormones are constantly sending tiny chemical messages (notifications) to the parts of you that need to know.
Textbook Terminology version 🔍 makes sense to you
The same three steps, twice. Once in the words a textbook would use, and once in the words you'd actually use. Tap any version to open it.
Changes inside or outside the body can trigger a response from the endocrine system.
The body uses hormones to help regulate processes and maintain normal conditions.
Hormones are chemical messengers produced by endocrine glands.
They are released into the bloodstream and transported around the body.
Only cells with the correct receptor can respond to a particular hormone.
When the hormone binds to its receptor, it signals the target cell or organ to change what it is doing.
Imagine you’re lying in bed watching one more TikTok.
Then you look at the time...
“OMG I NEED TO LEAVE.” 😰
Your brain has clocked the problem:
🚨 WE'RE LATE.
Your body sends out a hormone (basically a tiny chemical 'notification' carrying the 'message').
Which travels through your bloodstream, a bit like the body's personal hotspot, looking for whoever needs to 'receive' it.
Using the "💩 I''M LATE" example from above again:
Hormone HQ wouldn't send Melatonin (your sleepy hormone 🥱).
That's when Adrenaline (your "GO GO GO" hormone 🫨) joins the chat and tags the team needed (in this case, it would be @Brain @Muscles @
The cells with the matching receptor are basically the ones that have been @mentioned. They receive the message and go: “Yep, that's for me” and respond.
Where do you want to go next?
Might be good to start with what hormones actually are... 🤷🏼♀️
Open Hormone HQ to see the messages arrive,
or translate one of those “why do I feel like THIS?” moments.
🤔 What are hormones?...
Learn the basic message system first: what hormones are, how they travel, and why only the right body parts get the notification.
✨📱 Explore Hormone HQ
Tap the hormone notifications to see who sent the message, which body part got @tagged, and what it's being asked to do.
💖 Hormone Translator
“Why am I SO tired?”
“Why am I suddenly starving?”
“Why am I annoyed for no reason?”
... Any sound familiar? 👀
(and get out my head) →