What Is the Endocrine (or Hormonal) System?
Not much has been known about the body’s Endocrine System until recently. Its activities were thought mysterious and possibly only of secondary importance. But now we’re realizing just how essential a healthy Endocrine System is, what it actually does, how it’s governed and how to ensure its balance and operation with the rest of the body. The Endocrine System is the biochemical system of the body which controls and regulates the function of our entire metabolism through the production and direction of all of our hormones. The Endocrine System and its activities are specifically governed by parts of the brain (namely the neuroendocrine apparatus of the medial basal hypothalamus, the pineal gland and the pituitary gland), but it also involves other areas of the body including the major endocrine hormone-producing glands: Thyroid, Thymus, Parathyroids, Heart, Gastric and Intestinal Mucosa, Adrenals, Pancreas (pancreatic islets), the Testes in men, and even the Heart. Within the Endocrine
