Pineal gland

As we know, the brain keeps a lot of mysteries until nowdays, we only know a little portion of it, and its functions. Into the mysteries of the brain, there´s a little gland, called pineal gland, or also called pineal body, is a small endocrine gland, in the vertebrate brain, it´s located in the epithalamus, near of the center of the brain, some experts of the neuroscience field said that it´s located in the center of both thalamus. The pineal gland produces melatonin, a serotonin derived hormone which modulates sleep, patterns in both circadian and seasonal cycles. Mostly all vertebrates species posses a pineal gland, but the most primitive organisms don´t have one, and crocodiles also, because in the course of the evolution they lost it.

The pineal gland it´s also seen on cranial x-ray when it´s calcified, it´s common in people of old age, but it´s been also seen in children of two years, this calcification it´s associated to the arenaceous bodies, mainly composed of phosphorus and carbon, other studies of experts associate the Alzheimer disease to the calcification of the pineal gland and other types of dementia.

There´s not a way to keep healthy the pineal gland in the contemporary medicine, but there´s a lot of mysteries about foods, and some chemists to keep her decalcified and ways to detoxify it, but there´s no guarantee that will have effect.


The size of this gland is between 5-8 mm






Cranial x-ray, diagnostic of a calcified pineal gland