The Endocrine System

The Endocrine System

Caroline Staples and Sydney George

Preventative Care

Sports Related Injuries

Ways to maintain the Endocrine system:

• Maintain a healthy diet and cut out foods that can be harmful to the chemical balances in your body.
• Look into family history to be aware of any diseases of the endocrine system that could be passed down
• Exercise often
• Take care of your blood sugar
• Keep dairy to a minimum
• Keep alcohol consumption to a minimum

What is the Endocrine system?

Traumatic Brain Injury: An athlete could could receive a traumatic brain injury due to major trauma to the head during any collision sport such as football or hockey. TBI could severely damage two important parts of the endocrine system: the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus. Severe hormonal problems could take place shortly after TBI or even months to years later. Other problems that could occur after a TBI include:

• Adrenal Insufficiency: when adrenal glands don't produce enough hormones; resulting in fatigue, weight loss, low blood pressure, vomiting, and dehydration.
• Diabetes Insipidus: when the pituitary doesn't produce enough ADH; resulting in frequent urination and extreme thirst.
• Hyponatremia: when specific hormone problems off set the balance of salt and water in the body; resulting in headache, fatigue, vomiting, confusion, and convulsions.

Athletes who put extreme stress on their body could potentially cause a hormone imbalance. Hormone imbalances can have a significant impact on the reproductive system, especially in women. Treating disorders of the endocrine system involve stabilizing hormones with medications.

The endocrine system is the collection of glands that produce hormones to make our body function properly and develop as it should. They regulate metabolism, growth and development, tissue function, sexual function, reproduction, sleep, and mood, among other things.

The Major Parts

Major Functions of the Endocrine System

What are hormones?

How the Endocrine System works with other Systems

• Produce hormones that regulate metabolism
• Growth and development
• Tissue function
• Sexual function
• Reproduction
• Sleep
• Mood

• Hormones are chemical messengers produced in the endocrine glands that help control your emotions, mood, and bodily functions.

The Nervous System: The endocrine system works with the nervous system by sending horomones to cells causing a physical reaction. These hormones provide feedback to the brain and affect neural processing. Neural processing gives your body instructions on how and when to react to certain extrema.

The Digestive System: The endocrine system works with the digestive system through the pancreas. The pancreas produces insulin. When we digest carbs they are transformed into sugars. Insulin is produced to regulate how fast the sugars are broken down.

The Circulatory System: The endocrine system works with the circulatory system through the transport system for endocrine information. Hormones are sent throughout the body where they can be received by various organs and cells, and then put to use by bodily functions.

Works Cited

Diseases associated with the Endocrine System

• kidshealth.org/en/teens/endocrine.html
• innerbody.com/image/endoov.html
• hormone.org/hormones-and-health/the-endocrine-system

• Hypothyroidism: This is a disease in which the thyroid gland (part of the endocrine system) does not produce enough hormones, resulting in a slower metabolism.
• Osteoporosis: the decrease in density of the bones can be caused by the endocrine system.

Fun facts about the Endocrine system!

• Traditional Chinese healers practiced Endocrinology up to 2,000 years ago!
• Not all hormones come from the endocrine system- some come from the reproductive or thyroid system!
• Diabetes was once diagnosed by tasting urine
• Alcohol has drastic negative effects to the endocrine system
• Plants produce hormones without an endocrine system