Your adrenal glands are really important to you and your little body whenever you feel yucky. They will even help you out when you are worried.

Your thyroid gland is in your neck and it's shaped like a little bow. If you don't like your veggies and want to grow, these glands will help, and make you mighty, and full of energy

The pituitary gland is the size of a little piece of corn! It is the main boss of the whole system!! It is the cop of your endocrine system, it tells everyone what to do, and also makes you grow!!

Insulin  is sugar that runs in your blood from the cells in your body. Your cells need fuel like a car to run, which is glucose, and when your run out you shut down just like a car

the endocrine glands are the bosses, they tell your cells what to do! It's not a bad thing it's a good thing. Without your endocrine glands no one would know what to do!!

Diabetes is a very common problem with the endocrine system. It occurs when a person's pancreas doesn't make enough insulin, not enough sugar. Also it will effect your growth, and you'll be very tiny.

Adrenaline is one of the adrenal gland hormones it gives you the super strength you need when you wanna lift a car, or it kicks in when you are in defense mode.

The Pineal body is a small endocrine gland in the brain, it releases melanin, which is the main reason you get sleepy around night time

The ovaries release eggs to make your mommy pregnant! and guess what? you were once a egg, but now you've been born, and growing into a adult!

Glossary

Adrenal Glands- Are endocrine glands that produce a variety of hormones.

Thyroid Glands- a large ductless gland in the neck that secretes hormones regulating growth and development through the rate of metabolism.

Pituitary Glands- produces critical hormones, which are chemical substances that control various bodily functions.

Insulin- a hormone produced in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans that regulates the amount of glucose in the blood.

Glossary

Endocrine system- The collection of glands of an organism that secrete hormones directly into the circulatory system to be carried towards distant target organs.

Diabetes- a disease in which the body’s ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin.

Adrenaline- a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, especially in conditions of stress, increasing rates of blood circulation, breathing

Glossary

Pineal Body- and functions primarily as an endocrine gland secreting melatonin.

Ovaries- a female reproductive organ in which ova or eggs are produced, present in humans and other vertebrates as a pair.