Page 63 - The Miracle of Hormones

oday in factories and modern industrial
plants, the most important thing on the agen-
T da is "productivity." Every department of a
factory must work with ideal speed but it is not
enough that the individual units work to the ideal
speed by themselves. Every unit must work in harmo-
ny with the others. If one unit thinks that there is an
advantage in working on its own faster than the oth-
ers, this could cause harm rather than benefit. For this
reason, industrial engineers and strategic planners
work in factories and plants to put planning into place
and ensure productivity.
Imagine a factory that produces millions of differ-
ent products, operates twenty-four hours a day with-
out a break, and has 100 trillion workers. No doubt, an
army of engineers and business planners would be re-
quired in this factory to formulate a productivity plan
and determine how quickly each group of workers
will work must productively.
In real life there exists such a factory, but engi-
neers and business administrators do not work in it.
The work is done by a small set of cells and the hor-
mones that they secrete.
This factory is, of course, the human body and
what is responsible for the productivity of this fac-
tory is the thyroid gland. With the help of the thy-
roxine hormone secreted by the thyroid gland, 100
trillion cells are individually organized to func-
tion according to a certain rhythm and at a certain
rate of speed. This hormone determines how
quickly nutrients are converted into energy and
how efficiently food burns in the body.