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Chemical messengers produced in small organs called glands are known as hormones. Hormones move through a person's entire body via bloodstream. They send signals between cells in the body changing and regulating the functions of organs and structures. Since hormones are produced in the entire body of a human the communication of different parts of the body is done through the release of hormone.

Female hormones play an important role in every woman's health and her well-being. We have many times noticed that when women are in a bad mood, they will or easily blame it on their hormones. This is because hormones affect many factors in woman's life such as her mood, sexual desire, fertility and ovulation.

Hormones help maintain a balance through the communication of female hormones with organs and one another keeping a woman healthy and happy. A role is played by hormones in many various processes of a woman's body such as growth, cell repair, appetite, metabolism, fertility, reproduction, regulation of pain, etc.

Hormones are produced by men and women both in the same areas with the exception of sexual organs as additional male hormones are produced in the testes of a man while women produce additional female hormones in a small almond shaped sex glands in the pelvis called ovaries which is also produce a woman's eggs.

There are several hormones that are considered female hormones, although some of these are also naturally produced in a man's body as well. The reason they are called female hormones is the fact that they are more predominant in women than in men. They are also characterized as female hormones because of the role they play and function they have in a woman's fertility.

The two main female hormones are estrogen, progesterone. Testosterone, which is a male hormone is also important to women just like a small amount of estrogen is produced in men, a small amount of testosterone is produced in women.

Estrogen is the most known female sex hormone. This hormone is made in the adrenal glands, fatty tissue and the ovaries. Few of its primary functions are to promote breast growth in puberty, assist the growth of the uterus lining in the beginning of the menstrual cycle and maintain bone strength of woman by working with calcium, vitamin D and other minerals to prevent bone loss.

Progesterone, another female hormone, is also produced in the ovaries and adrenal tissue. Just like estrogen is full of activity at the start of the menstrual cycle, progesterone executes and is dominant in the second half of the cycle because after ovulation; progesterone prepares the lining of the uterus for the egg to be implanted.

Testosterone, a male hormone also there in a females' body is made by other hormones in adrenal glands by other hormones which are; DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone) and DHEA-S (a type of DHEA). These are steroid hormones carrying out same functions in women as they do in men, to a lesser degree. They help strengthens a woman's energy level, bones, muscles, libido and sexual responsiveness to stimulation.