Pituitary
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Certain diseases, growths in the thryoid or chemical imbalances in the body can confuse the organ and make it deaf to the
pituitary
's guiding commands.
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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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