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Figure 16.
After the birth of the baby, the release of estrogen decreases, which in turn leads
to a reduction in PIH. This process resembles the way a car starts rolling down-
hill when you slowly take your foot off the brake pedal. In this way, production of
the hormone prolactin gradually increases, setting the milk glands in action to
produce mother's milk.
vented during the first months of pregnancy. Let us now raise questions
presented by this system as a whole:
How do the cells that produce the hormone prolactin recognize the
milk glands? By what intelligence and consciousness do they give the
needed command to the cells responsible for milk production?
How can the hormones that prevent the production of prolactin be-
fore birth know that milk need not yet be secreted, and that they should
wait a while longer?
How have these hormones learned that prolactin stimulates milk pro-
duction in the first place, and that its production must be prevented in
order to prevent production of milk?
The answer is that God, the Lord of the worlds, creates all this mirac-
ulous system. All things act by His inspiration.
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