Love Hormones in Teenagers– Some Scientific Facts

Love hor­mones in teenagers can be syn­ony­mously called teenage hor­mones as the two are almost insep­a­ra­ble. The teens period sees a surge in body hor­mones which has much to do with both the emo­tional and phys­i­cal growth of teenagers and largely affects the way they feel about themselves.

Both boys and girls go through phys­i­cal and emo­tional changes at a cer­tain age (roughly between 12– 14 years) and reach what is called ‘puberty’. Dur­ing this time, the health hor­mones of teenagers go in over­drive pro­duc­ing testos­terone hor­mones in boys and estro­gen hor­mones in girls. These hor­mones along with other hor­mones are respon­si­ble for stim­u­lat­ing growth and cell pro­duc­tion in the body.

Testos­terone hor­mones are respon­si­ble for the devel­op­ment of sex­ual and other phys­i­cal devel­op­ments in males and man­i­fest the typ­i­cal male qual­i­ties in them. These hor­mones are what give the boys their facial hair and rapid male growth in other parts of the body. The testos­terone hor­mone is also present in females but in lesser amounts. They bring about the changes dur­ing teens.

The female equiv­a­lent of these male hor­mones is the estro­gen hor­mones and they along with prog­es­terone hor­mones are two most impor­tant female hor­mones. These two hor­mones are respon­si­ble for the onset of puberty in teen girls which results in body devel­op­ment and the start of var­i­ous typ­i­cally female bod­ily func­tions like men­stru­a­tion. When in har­mony, the two hor­mones let the female body per­form its func­tions smoothly but when they devi­ate from their nor­mal lev­els, it causes a hor­monal imbal­ance and birth con­trol hor­mones may be required to cor­rect the problem.

The growth hor­mones are also known as ‘HGH’ and they are secreted by the pitu­itary gland in the brain. Although this hor­mone is pro­duced through­out child­hood, its secre­tion becomes more active dur­ing the teens period. The secre­tion of growth hor­mones starts declin­ing dur­ing adulthood.

The main func­tion of these hor­mones is to increase the mus­cle mass and the height and to help in main­tain­ing healthy bones, con­trol­ling sugar and insulin lev­els, retain­ing cal­cium and reduc­ing fat dur­ing the period of rapid growth. Love hor­mones are the main fac­tors for bod­ily changes in ado­les­cents and also affect the men­tal make-up of teenagers.