Pituitary
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The
pituitary
's role is to sense if hormone levels in the blood are too low or too high, in which case it sends out instructions in the form of the thyroid- stimulating hormone.
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Your
pituitary
gland pumps this stuff out as part of the stress response.
So the most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your
pituitary
gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone.
The
pituitary
tumor, as it grows, often starts to compress the visual nerves in your brain, with the result that people with acromegaly have either double vision or they are profoundly nearsighted.
When this alarm sounds, the hypothalamic, pituitary, and adrenal systems, known as the HPA axis, work together to send signals to the parasympathetic nervous system.
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