This makes the kidneys less permeable to water, more water flows to the bladder. This increased loss of water upsets the balance of the electrolyte concentration and negatively affects the metabolic process. This can cause dehydration in chronic alcohol consumers.
1 Letâs not forget estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, also known as the minor hormones. 2  Adequate levels of estrogen seem to help in hunger regulation, simulating the soothing âfullâ or satiety effect of serotonin.
Your hypothalamus tells your pituitary what to release and when. In the 1930âs Ernst and Berta Scharrer working in Germany proposed the radical idea that neurons of the hypothalamus extend axons into the pituitary-and these neurons actually release hormones.