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The pineal gland regulates hormones like melatonin that influence sleep patterns and circadian rhythms. The hypothalamus acts as the control center that maintains homeostasis by influencing the autonomic nervous system and hormones. The pituitary gland, known as the "master gland", monitors and regulates many bodily functions through the hormones it produces including growth, sexual development, and controlling other glands. The parathyroid glands help maintain calcium balance in the bloodstream and tissues through the hormone they produce. The thyroid gland produces hormones that are necessary for cells to function normally. The thymus gland trains immune cells called T-cells that help the immune system fight disease and infection, producing most T-cells before birth.

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The pineal gland regulates hormones like melatonin that influence sleep patterns and circadian rhythms. The hypothalamus acts as the control center that maintains homeostasis by influencing the autonomic nervous system and hormones. The pituitary gland, known as the "master gland", monitors and regulates many bodily functions through the hormones it produces including growth, sexual development, and controlling other glands. The parathyroid glands help maintain calcium balance in the bloodstream and tissues through the hormone they produce. The thyroid gland produces hormones that are necessary for cells to function normally. The thymus gland trains immune cells called T-cells that help the immune system fight disease and infection, producing most T-cells before birth.

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Pineal Gland
The pineal gland is a small, pea-shaped gland in the brain. Its function isn't fully
understood. Researchers do know that it produces and regulates some
hormones, including melatonin. Melatonin is best known for the role it plays in
regulating sleep patterns. Sleep patterns are also called circadian rhythms.

2. Hypothalamus
Your hypothalamus, a structure deep in your brain, acts as your body's smart
control coordinating center. Its main function is to keep your body in a stable
state called homeostasis. It does its job by directly influencing your autonomic
nervous system or by managing hormones.

3. Pituitary Gland
The pituitary gland is referred to as the “master gland” because it monitors and
regulates many bodily functions through the hormones that it produces, including:
Growth and sexual/reproductive development and function. Glands (thyroid
gland, adrenal glands, and gonads)

4. Parathyroid Gland
These glands, located behind the thyroid at the bottom of your neck, are about
the size of a grain of rice. The parathyroid hormone produced by the thyroid
glands helps maintain the right balance of calcium in the bloodstream and in
tissues that depend on calcium for proper functioning.

5. Thyroid Gland
The thyroid gland is an endocrine gland in your neck. It makes two hormones
that are secreted into the blood: thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). These
hormones are necessary for all the cells in your body to work normally.

6. Thymus
Your thymus is a small gland in the lymphatic system that makes and trains
special white blood cells called T-cells. The T-cells help your immune system
fight disease and infection. Your thymus gland produces most of your T-cells
before birth.

7. Adrenal Gland

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