Steroids are an entire class of chemicals that have a specific pattern in their structure. Hormones are signalling molecules that get transported throughout yo

Steroids are an entire class of chemicals that have a specific pattern in their structure. Hormones are signalling molecules that get transported throughout your body. Steroid hormones are chemicals that are both a steroid and a hormone. Not all steroids are hormones (ex cholesterol) and not all hormones are steroids. A subgroup of steroid hormones is corticosteroids. A subgroup of corticosteroids is glucocorticoids, (most of?) which exhibit strong effects on the immune system (roughly speaking, they suppress the immune system and reduce inflammation).