Types of hormones and their function?

Primarily produced in your endocrine glands, hormones manage and control everything in your body. From your immune response to your energy output, it regulates your blood-sugar level, maintains the critical balance among your body's electrolytes, and enables you to build strong healthy bones, it determines how you mature and how slowly or quickly you age. Because of them, women are able to become pregnant and carry a baby. It helps you digest and assimilate your food, convert it into energy, and then use the energy to build muscles or burn fat. And remarkably, your endocrine system monitors not only what is going on inside you but also what's going on around you. It interprets what you see and experience and translates it into physical reactions in your body, enabling you to adapt to change and to cope with stresses of all kinds.

1. Thyroid hormones: Insulin, Adrenaline, Calcitonin
2. Sex hormones: Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone, Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
3. Pineal hormone: melatonin

Testosterone is found in men, oestrogen in women,