Page 31 - The Miracle of Hormones

The Two Governors Of Our Body:
The Hypothalamus And The Pituitary Gland

ing to the command given to it by the growth
hormone. As a result, the heart grows and be-
comes an adult heart.
The multiplication of the nerve cells
stops when the baby is six months old and
still lives inside the mother's womb. From this heart
time until birth and from birth to adulthood,
the number of nerve cells remains constant.
The growth hormone commands the nerve
cells to increase in size. When the period of
growth of the nervous system has come to an
end, it has reached its final form.
Other cells in the body (for example,
muscle and bone cells) divide and multiply
throughout their period of development.
Again, it is the growth hormone that informs
heart
the cells how much they must divide.
In the light of these circumstances we
must ask this question:
In the picture at the bottom we
How is it that the pituitary gland knows see an adult heart. While still in
the embryonic stage, a baby's
the correct formula according to which the
heart develops under the super-
cells must divide and grow? It is amazing that vision of the growth hormone. In
this piece of flesh, the size of a chickpea, con- the picture at the top, we see the
developing heart that appears as
trols all the cells of the body and causes them a red nodule.
to grow by dividing or increasing their bulk.
Another question that must be asked is: who charged this piece of flesh
with this function? Why do these cells throughout their lifetime send
messages commanding other cells to divide?
Here again we see the flawless excellence of God's creation. Cells
located in one small area ensure the orderly division of trillions of other
cells. However, it is impossible for these cells to observe the human body
from outside to determine how much the body must grow and at which
stage it must stop growing. These unconscious cells, in the darkness of

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