DIET FOR GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST Instructions: 1. Follow this diet for 3 full days before the test. This is important so test results will be reliable. 2. You will not gain a significant amount of weight after only three days of the diet. 3.
How Hormones Function. The function of hormones in the body is mainly to serve as chemical messengers. The brain receives a message from the nerves, interprets it, and transmits the message to a specific endocrine gland. In response, the endocrine gland releases one or more hormones to bind with a specific cell.ut simply, hormones are the body s chemical messengers that relay a signal from cell to cell. Endocrine glands produce and release these hormones into the bloodstream, where they will travel and bind with a specific receptor, to reproduce or to trigger the production of proteins.
The thyroid hormones are secreted into the blood and carried to each of the 100 trillion cells in our body. It is in the cells, not in the bloodstream, that the thyroid hormones accomplish their purpose. In the blood, 99.95% of the thyroid hormones are bound to proteins, primarily thyroid binding globulin (TBG).