Doctors who specialize in diseases that affect your hormones are called Endocrinologists. These hormones may affect one organ or tissue or the entire body. There are many disorders that can result when too few hormones are secreted (hyposecretion) or too many are secreted (hypersecretion).
The Endocrine glands include:
thyroid
parathyroid
hypothalamus
pituitary
adrenal
islets of Langerhans in the pancreas
gonads (testes and ovaries)
Disorders that may result when a particular gland does not produce the right amount of hormones include the following.
