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Signals (Audiobook)

Saira Hameed

From cortisol to GLP-1, everyone is talking about hormones: Signals cuts through the noise and misinformation to help you finally understand yours. Dr Hameed reveals the workings of the miraculous hormone system and its far-reaching influence on men’s and women’s physical, emotional and mental health at every stage of life.

Format
Audio book
ISBN
9780571389810
Date Published
02.06.2026

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Summary

**Includes a bonus Q&A with Claudia Hammond**

‘Signals is a special book, a witty, utterly fascinating guide to who you are and how you work . . . It’s compassionate, humane and grounded in the author’s deep clinical experience. A true gift.’ Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People

Dr Saira Hameed is one of the UK’s leading endocrinologists. In Signals, she invites us into her clinic to see the profound impact of misfiring hormones and shows us how fixing the problem recalibrates a life. We sit beside Dr Hameed as she hears stories from spirit-sapping exhaustion to agonising infertility, absent libido to frenzied disorientation. We see an emaciated girl who is close to death and another battling obesity. We meet a young boy who can’t stay awake and a teenage girl a whose racing heart will not be able to keep going much longer…

Hormones animate every aspect and every moment of our lives. This is a vital book for anyone who wants to understand their health and their happiness.

‘A fascinating insight into the real-world mystery-solving of the doctor’s clinic, and discoveries past and present.’ Mishal Husain

Critic Reviews

'A doctor who has a gift for finding just the right words . . . Compelling, affecting'

Rhys Blakeley, The Times

Critic Reviews

Signals is a special book, a witty, utterly fascinating guide to who you are and how you work. Saira Hameed reveals the endocrine system, and places it at the center of self knowledge; a system of control, but also a set of signals we can learn to interpret. You won't find hormone “hacks”, or glib shortcuts, but by the end I understood my own appetite, fatigue, stress, and all the other experiences my hormones control, so much better. It's compassionate, humane and grounded in the author's deep clinical experience. A true gift

Chris van Tulleken, author of ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE

Critic Reviews

If you want to learn more about hormones, this is THE book to get

Davina McCall, author of MENOPAUSING

Critic Reviews

Fantastic for so many reasons . . . I read it cover to cover very quickly

Louise Newson, The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

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Fascinating and moving

Clive Cookson, Financial Times (Best Summer Books of 2026)

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There are few good books about hormones. Signals will remedy that, with endocrinologist Hameed skillfully interleaving patient stories with science

Liz Else, New Scientist

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Dr Saira Hameed is a Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Senior Tutor and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She studied medicine at Oxford University and University College London and has been a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellow and National Institute for Health and Care Research Clinical Lecturer. Dr Hameed holds a…

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