Endocrine
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Behind the scenes, the
endocrine
system works constantly to orchestrate these changes.
The
endocrine
system relies on interactions between three features to do its job: glands, hormones, and trillions of cell receptors.
By exposing millions of cells at a time to hormones in carefully-regulated quantities, the
endocrine
system drives large-scale changes across the body.
An enduring misconception around the
endocrine
system is that there are exclusively male and female hormones.
The primary function of the
endocrine
system is to regulate our bodily processes, not control us.
But most of the time, the
endocrine
system manages to keep our bodies in a state of balance.
This is really where the pediatric
endocrine
realm comes in, because, in fact, if you're going to deal with it in kids aged 10 to 14, that's pediatric endocrinology.
Stress begins with something called the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis, a series of interactions between
endocrine
glands in the brain and on the kidney, which controls your body's reaction to stress.
Increasingly common medical conditions like obesity,
endocrine
disorders, C-section and preterm births all can disrupt the underlying biology of lactation.
And of course, these
endocrine
disruptors are things that are implicated in the breast cancer epidemic, the obesity epidemic, the two and a half year drop in the average age of onset of puberty in young girls and other related things.
A mad doctor, Mr. Pichel has isolated what he calls, "The active ingredient of the
endocrine
glands governing criminality."
While the plastics used, say, to package our foods are usually nontoxic, most plastics are laden with chemicals, from softeners (which can act as
endocrine
disruptors) to flame retardants (which can be carcinogenic or toxic in higher concentrations).
Suboptimal storage conditions – which include, for example, prolonged exposure to sunlight and heat – can cause potent estrogenic activity in bottled water, exposing consumers to chemicals that alter the function of the
endocrine
system by mimicking the role of the body’s natural hormones.
Mood stabilizers are the treatment of choice, and, depending on the medication, they can produce potentially significant health complications affecting renal, endocrine, hepatic, immunologic, or metabolic function.
Being obese can also be caused by disruption of normal growth caused by pathological changes – ranging from tumors to aging (which is also understood as pathological) – in the
endocrine
system.
By better integrating mental health services into primary care systems, we can show that a mental health condition is no different from a respiratory, endocrine, or heart issue.
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