DrRob

DrRob t1_j93ac79 wrote

Just about all hormones are made and stored in their own glands and released carefully in response to circulating chemical signals. One really unpleasant symptom cluster from cancers of hormone producing glands is indiscriminate outpouring of hormones by the now unregulated cancerous cells which are still well organized enough to produce hormones unchecked. This can happen with the thyroid, adrenals, pituitary, etc.

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DrRob t1_iyf88wl wrote

Excellent explanations elsewhere in the thread. For me, the 'Oh wow!' factoid is, the gas exchanging surface area in your lungs is the size of a tennis court. Remember that with each heartbeat, just as much blood gets pumped to your lungs (from the right ventricle) as to the rest of your body (from your left ventricle), so there's a whole lotta blood being pumped through a network spreading it as thin as a single red blood cell, over a freakin' tennis court!

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