So you want to keep or improve your bone health. Excellent. To do that, there's a very important pathway to understand. That's the pathway that links your feelings, or your emotions to your bones.

Sound a bit far-fetched? Tenuous? But it's not at all. Here's how it works.

You may already have heard that your pitutitary is your master gland, keeping a constant watch over the output of all the other various hormone factories, and telling this one to make more of its hormone and another one less. It does this moment by moment by moment.

And that's great, because there are three major hormones that control bone health. One is progesterone, the second estrogen, and the third, testosterone.

To review:

• Progesterone tells the bone building cells (osteoblasts) to get going and build bone.   
• Estrogen tells the osteoclasts, or bone repair cells, to get going and get rid of old bone and repair it   
• Testosterone tells the body to build connective tissue, and connective tissue is the mother of bones.   

So where do feelings come in? Here's where: sitting behind your pituitary in your brain, quietly influencing that entire system just described, is your hypothalamus. That's where your brain makes molecules of emotions. These act as messages that affect your pituitary, and therefore your whole bone building and repair system.

That's how important your emotional state is to your bone health.

For further information about how to have a healthy emotional life, visit http://www.emotionaldevelopment101.com

Pamela Levin, R.N.
8/10/11

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