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I've done a video on the hypothalamus, but I've done a video on the hypothalmas, but I've done a video on the hypothalamus, but I've never done a video on the pituitary.

So we're going to talk about what the pituitary is and what does it do.

It's part of the endocrine system.

Now, it's been called the master gland, but to me, it's not really the master gland

because the hypothalamus is higher than the pituitary on the echelon of order of what controls what.

So I would just call it like the middleman. Okay. So you have the hypothalamus, which if we compare this to a business, it's the executive

director.

It holds the function of the certain plans that are sent down the organization.

So with the hypothalamus, it has pre-programmed plans of action depending on the environment.

So the pituitary is constantly in communication with the environment back and forth,

with all your perception of getting data and then adapting the various functions of body to your environment to make sure you stay at a certain constant.

So that has to do with what's called homeostasis, the ability to be stable within your environment.

So if it's cold, your body is going to pick up information and adapt to that coldness.

If you're being chased by a tiger, it's going to adapt to that situation.

So when I say pre-programmed plans, I'm talking about various reactions that occur for various situations.

So the hypothalamus is going to send down the plan to the middleman, which is the pituitary. And in a business,

we would call that the manager, right? So the manager doesn't necessarily do the work of the

organization, but it coordinates and gets other employees or staff to do the work. So it's responsible

for coordination, giving certain people certain jobs to do and making sure that they do it.

And so they're also responsible for compliance.

And then we have the next echelon in an organization where you have employees or staff.

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