• Question: do you get different hormones as you get older

    Asked by monkey_girl to Amy, Craig, Laura, Partha, Saffron on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Craig Doig

      Craig Doig answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Hi

      The amount of different hormones your body makes changes with age. Also some stop and start being made at certain times, these times vary with each person but it really doesn’t mean anything or matter.

    • Photo: Laura Wales

      Laura Wales answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      Once puberty has started, in girls, the ovaries release oestrogen and progesterone. In boys, the testes release testosterone.

      As you get older, hormones work in different ways. Then during menopause in women, the body produces less of certain hormones (oestrogen and progesterone). Sometimes women get hormone replacement therapy after this happens.

    • Photo: Saffron Whitehead

      Saffron Whitehead answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      No you don’t get different hormones as you get older but some hormone levels begin to fall. A good example is the menopause in women where the ovaries stop working and levels of oestrogen and progesterone drop dramatically. Growth hormone also declines with age as another example.

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