Your body regulator

Your body regulators

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Your body regulators

The job keeping this complex community of cells, tessues, organs and system working together to give your healthy physical life demand a superior communication system. Along with nerve impulses. the body uses chemical messengers called hormones. We have different hormones.

Endocrine System

The endocrine system is a complex network of glands and organs. It uses hormones to control and coordinate your body's metabolism, energy level, reproduction, growth and development, and response to injury, stress, and mood. The following are integral parts of the endocrine system: Hypothalamus

Your master gland 2nd class

Your most important endocrine gland—the pituitary gland—is a tiny sl structure (about the size of a pea) located at the base of the brain. This “master eland”: secretes hormones that control other endocrine glands, such as the thyroid and adrenal glands. Tt also secretes a hormone called growth hormone, hich causes your body to grow. Look in the mirror and count slowly to ten. You do not look any different, but you are. Your bones grew a little longer; your muscles grew, too; and you have more skin cells than when you started counting. At your age, you are continually growing.