Arthritis and the Adrenals
There is a tiny gland at the base of the brain called pituitary. At any sign of stress this gland releases a hormone which sounds the alarm.
The hormone travels in the blood until it reaches two small glands that sit on our kidneys in the middle of the back-the adrenals. When the adrenals pick up this hormone they too release different hormones.
The chief of these is called cortisol (we know it as cortisone).
Messages have come from the nervous system too, and the hormone adrenalin is also released. The presence of these adrenal hormones in the blood tells the whole body that it is under threat.
08.01.2007. 19:45
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