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 The Endocrine System

            The endocrine system talks to the body by oozing out chemicals called hormones (it’s easy to remember because it sounds like “homie,” and you talk to your homie). They swim faster than Michael Phelps through your blood and affect your brain and all your other tissues. When they affect your brain, they can affect how mad you get, what you wanna eat, and our sexiness.

             Some chemicals are basically like your neurotransmitters, which crawl faster than a baby into the synapse next to it and make the next neuron happy or sad. That means that the endocrine system and the nervous system are like brothers; they make something that affects something. Pretty simple, right? But they’re actually different as well; just like how the younger brother is always taller than the older one, the nervous system is faster than the endocrine system, moving in half a second at the same time hormones have to flow through the entire circulatory system to get to the part of the body they need to. The nervous system is like an instant text, and the endocrine system is like an ink-and-pen, “the British are coming,” horse-riding, courting, chip-chip-cheerio letter.

              Even though the endocrine system is super slow, the fact that it’s slow to get there means its slow to leave, making its effects last longer than ones from a nervous system. Remember how the endocrine system makes you feel mad? If you stay mad for a long time and people call you sensitive, just tell them “you don’t know what it’s like to have a slow-moving endocrine system!” And ride away on the horseback just as slow as the system. And when you forget everything but how you felt in a certain moment, that’s your endocrine system too! Even if you can’t remember certain events, the hormones that made you feel a certain way stick around. 

            There’s even a hormone for when you aren’t feeling safe. Because it comes from the adrenal glands (that are right above your kidneys), it’s called adrenaline, which makes your heart beat faster, raises your blood pressure and blood sugar, and even gives you a ton of energy called a “flight or fight” response. Even when you feel safe again, they stick around. Your endocrine system is like honey, and your nervous system is like a fast-twitch drink.