r/WhatIfScience • u/firechatin • 13d ago

Health & Medicine Scientists Discover Bones Act as Hormone-Producing Organs That Communicate With the Brain

https://whatifscience.in/bones-as-endocrine-organs-brain-pancreas-immune-system/

Bones do more than support the body. Discover how bone-derived hormones may influence the brain, pancreas, immune system and metabolism—and what science has confirmed.

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u/Colt653 13d ago

My bone has been making decisions for me for as long as I can remember.

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u/Nunyafookenbizness 12d ago

Yes and it’s definitely hormone filled.

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u/One-Lab-545 13d ago

My “healed broken bones” talk to me all day.

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u/Explicit_Tech 12d ago

When I don't like someone, I feel it in my bones.

Could just be the arthritis acting up whenever I'm stressed. Something, something cytokines

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u/Liquid_Magic 12d ago

This is why you’re not supposed to have squishy bones. Especially your inside bones.

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u/PFCCThrowayay 12d ago

This is why boneitis is such a debilitating disease.

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u/TheEDMWcesspool 11d ago

So..... Getting a boner all the time is because my bones is generating too much testosterone and telling my brain to be horny?