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hey guys I want to share with you some

data about the hypothalamus it’s kind of

a mysterious gland it’s up in the brain

it’s this little gland that is the size

of an almond okay and then the pituitary

is the size of a pea so they’re very

very small but let’s start with the

hypothalamus like what is the

hypothalamus hypo meaning below thalamus

so there’s a structure in the brain

called the thalamus it’s right below it

the size of an almond it’s a very

important gland because it’s composed of

about 11 to 12 it’s actually 10 to 11

small little bundles of nerves that are

called nuclei and these little centers

are pre-programmed kind of controls like

blueprints that tell the body to do

certain things so the hypothalamus has a

goal of adapting the body to the

environment to help it survive so it’s

constantly getting feedback from the

body and it’s adjusting different things

like for example

it controls sweating blood pressure it

controls stress reaction it controls

leptin which has to do with your fat

being burned and also your safety and

your metabolism the GI controls thirst

certain emotions like a rage that can

affect that female sex hormones sanity

tranquility pleasure centers are up here

water balance fluid electrolytes

hydration there’s a little Center that’s

called the super Chaya snick nuclei and

that Center can control like a little

clock that’s built into your brain that

tells you when you go to sleep when to

wake up so it’s a whole circadian rhythm

control off that and then the thermostat

so if it’s cold out

you’ll shiver and this little Center

will cause the body to do that stress

sex so if you ever notice that you for

your true stress your sex drive might go

down because they’re both in the same

Center fluid wakefulness heartbeat

temperature so there’s a lot of

different like life basic

functions that are up in the brain that

basically constantly are controlling the

body okay so that’s what the

hypothalamus does it basically keeps

certain things at a constant so it

brings things down to a level it’s

called homeostasis which is basically

the ability to adapt to your environment

to maintain a certain constancy just

like if you have blood sugar you have to

have a normal ninety to a hundred or

temperature 98.6 so that’s kind of

what’s set here so you’re sleeping at

seven hours so basically you go to sleep

when it gets tired and you wake up when

it gets light right well that’s all

controlled by these little mini computer

chips and then we have down here

communication on the pituitary the

pituitary is like the relay switch like

the middleman it’s like the coach of the

football team so you have the owner the

coach and the players players are the

organs down here in the gland so you

have this whole hierarchy of of

different things so you have the owner

that sends the you know what to do and

the coach actually gives the information

out to the players and same thing like

an organization you have the CEO or the

manager that would be a better example

because the manager is going to like

relay what the goals of the CEO are for

the company and make sure it gets done

so down here the messages are integrated

and coordinated to the different organs

likely at the liver

you have the adrenal stress gland the

gonads that would be testicles and ovary

and then the thyroid pancreas a couple

two glands a couple of the organs so you

have these messages that are sent down

here and then once the messages are

given to adrenal for example then the

Drina has to perform that function so

when it does it then it sends another

signal back up letting the pituitary

know okay we did it so that feedback

loop connects and then the message can

turn off so they have this entire

communication system that’s going from

down here all the way back here up here

all day long and it’s happen happens

really really fast so the endocrine

system as a whole is the superior

communication system that travels

through the blood that’s the messages

that go through the blood

the endocrine system is composed of

glands that make hormones or messages

and the communication lines that happen

through the blood but what’s interesting

about the hypothalamus is that its half

gland and half nerve nervous system so

there are nerve connections to that

attached this hypothalamus to the

pituitary so it’s kind of an interesting

thing so it’s kind of like a mixed breed

but anyway just so you know there’s

several things I could mess this whole

system up number one your environment if

you live under a constant stress state

that will destroy this whole system over

time you’re eating if you’re eating junk

food you’re not getting the nutrition in

your body that will destroy this if you

have certain types of surgery surgically

you can have something removed like a

taking the thyroid out it puts stress

somewhere else

menopause let’s say you had your you no

longer using your ovaries well that’s

going to add more stress with adrenal so

you have all these things that can

happen and then of course you have the

chemicals and they’re called endocrine

disruptors those are any chemical and

environment including pesticides

insecticides herbicides fungicides that

can interfere and act like hormones

mainly estrogen and you’re seeing it now

with the growth hormones I’m sorry the

the GMO foods and that basically has an

estrogenic effect and on your body so

it’s giving your body way too much

estrogen and that’s messing up the

glands creating cancer and and whatnot

and then sometimes when you have like a

major stress in your body you can

actually have so much return

communication that you can grow a tumor

on your pituitary so there’s a lot of

things that can happen along the way but

that just kind of gives you summary

exactly what the hypothalamus is okay so

I hope you enjoy that and also I have a

quiz down below in the description box

go ahead and take that and that will

help you find out your underlying cause

thanks for watching