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Not just temperature but I remember it as the hormone control center.

You have hormone release factories such as the liver, the adrenals, and the sex organs such as ovaries and testisatchels

Then you have a feedback control loop, the manager of these factories, the pituitary. But we're not done yet! The hypothalamus in fact is another feedback loop controlling the pituitaries which controls the hormones. So in fact with things like transgender it is things like the hypothalamus-pituitary link that is interfered with to shut down endogenous sex hormone production

As such the hypothalamus seems a physiometabolic control center. This makes me think the mechanism is less to do with a direct pathway and perhaps is more indirect

parent fasa99 1 year ago

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