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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

Figures 48 and 49.
The heart of a newborn baby is
only 1/16th the size of an adult's
heart. Yet both contain the
same number of cells.

While the baby is still in the mother's womb, at the end of the sixth

month of gestation, the multiplication of nerve cells in the heart comes to
an end. From this stage on, from birth and until adulthood, the number of
cardiac nerve cells remains fixed. Growth hormone commands the nerve
cells to grow in volume, not in number, and the nervous system thus
achieves its final state with the end of the growth phase (Figure 49).
Other cells in the body—those of muscle and bone cells, for instance—
divide and multiply throughout the developmental stage. Once again, it is

growth hormone that informs these cells how much they need to grow
(Figures 50 and 51).
That being the case, we have to ask the following question:
How does the pituitary gland knows the requisite formula for cells to

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