What is the Endocrine System?

Our bodies have two ways of controlling our body tissues. One way is through the nervous system with its neural pathways, the other way of controlling body tissues is through the endocrine system.

Our endocrine system is an information signal system much like the nervous system. Whilst our nervous system uses nerves to conduct information, our endocrine system uses our vascular system to carry sex hormone and non-sex hormone agents to the 50 trillion cells in our body.

Our endocrine systems comprise a network of glands that produce more than fifty different known hormones to maintain and regulate basic bodily functions. Hormones are chemical messengers - this is the way our bodies communicate at a cellular level.

The major glands that make up the human endocrine system include the: hypothalamus, pituitary gland, thyroid, parathyroids, adrenal glands, pineal and the reproductive glands (the ovaries and testes).

The main function of our endocrine system and its hormone messengers is to maintain homeostasis (a stable internal environment in the body) and to promote permanent structural changes.

The most important part of our endocrine system is the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, or the HPA axis as it is referred to commonly. And the HPA axis is the KEY to optimal health and wellness.

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Baby Boomer Health: It Makes Me Sick Just Thinking About It!

The first “Boomers” will turn 65 in 2011, and according to a report published by the American Hospital Association, more than 37 million Boomers - six out of 10 - will be managing more than one chronic condition by 2030. In addition, by the year 2030:

• 14 million Boomers will be living with diabetes - that's one out of every four Boomers.

• Almost half of the Boomers will live with arthritis and that number escalates to just over 26 million in 2020.

• More than one out of three Boomers - over 21 million - will be considered obese.

These statistics are alarming, but is there anything that can be done to avert this medical crisis?

Many experts believe that there is a solution and that the answer lies in the improved health of our endocrine system.

Do YOU have any suggestions?

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