Ashley’s Blog

In science class today we drew what each gland efected in the human body.In case you want to refresh your memory on the five major glands I’ve made a sharp study guide for you to reveiw over or study off of.

                                     Pituitary Gland

                  The Pituitary gland is the master gland.In othor words the Pituitary gland controlls all glands.The Pituitary gland also gives off the Hormone for the Human body groth or HGH for short.The Pituitary Gland is the size of a marble, . .pretty small!!!

                                          Pancreas 

                    The pancreas is very important because it makes enzimes to help break down food in the stomach then turn the food into chime. Anyway the Pancreas also produces insulin wich alows the glucose to move from the blood on to the hungry cells.

                                         Adrenal Glands

                        The Adrenal Glands make a hormone called Adrenaline. This is called a fight or flight hormone. Adrenaline makes your heart beat faster. The reason why your heart beats faster is because the adrenaline releases more food stored in your liver, this often causes more sweating in your sweat glands.

                                               Parathyroid

                           The four parathyroids are behind the thyroid and their purpose helps you keep the right ph in your blood. They are about the size of a pea and the glands release a horomone that helps control the amount of calcium in your blood. Calcium is really important for clotting blood.  Without it you would be bleeding all the time if you got a scratch. If the parathyroids make too much calcium the bones may become very fragile and easy to break. You may be thinking that huh? I thought too much calcium is a good thing? Well you are wrong!

                                                Thyroid

                            The thyroid has a horomone called thyroxine. The thyroxine controls your bodies chemical reactions that happen inside your body, in other words metabolism. The thyroid however is not able to work properly if it does not have an element called iodine. If you do not have iodine the thyroid will get larger and larger.  A thyroid that has grown in size is called a goider. Good thing they are not so common today!