Hypothalamus
- The hypothalamus is a small but crucial region that regulates many essential
bodily functions in the brain which coordinates both the autonomic nervous
system and the activity of the pituitary controlling body temperature,
sleep-wake cycles, heart rate, thirst, breathing, digestion, blood pressure, hunger,
and other homeostatic systems, and involved in sleep and emotional response activity
without conscious thought. It controls
the release of hormones from the pituitary gland, which in turn affects other
glands like the thyroid and adrenal glands
Functions of the hypothalamus
- Hormone regulation: The hypothalamus produces releasing and
inhibiting hormones that control the pituitary gland, which then manages
the activity of other endocrine glands. This is crucial for growth, metabolism
(thyroid gland), reproduction, and more.
- Autonomic nervous
system control: It influences the autonomic nervous system to manage functions
like heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing.
- Thermoregulation: It acts as the
body's thermostat, regulating body temperature.
- Appetite and thirst: The hypothalamus
controls hunger, satiety, and the drive to drink, helping to maintain
fluid and electrolyte balance.
- Sleep-wake cycles: It helps
regulate the body's internal clock,
including the sleep-wake cycle.
- Emotional response and behavior: It plays a role in mood, emotional responses,
and behaviors like sexual drive and aggression.
- Reproduction: It is involved in controlling reproductive
hormones and behaviors. the hypothalamus acts as a crucial link, taking
signals from your thoughts and emotions (processed in other brain areas
like the amygdala) and translating them into physical, automatic body
responses through the nervous and endocrine systems, controlling things
like heart rate, stress hormones (cortisol), sleep, thirst, and body
temperature to maintain stability (homeostasis). Note:
Cortisol is a vital steroid hormone produced by your adrenal glands that
acts as a chemical messenger, helping regulate metabolism, immune
response, and blood pressure, and playing a crucial role in the body's
stress response (often called the "stress hormone"). Too much cortisol secretion destroys the
white T cells that fights off autoimmune diseases such as cancer.
How it works:
- Receives Input: When you think something stressful or feel an
emotion (fear, excitement), signals are sent to the hypothalamus.
- Interprets & Commands: It acts like a
command center, deciding how the body should react.
- Acts via Nervous System: It triggers the autonomic
nervous system, specifically the sympathetic
("fight-or-flight") system, increasing heart rate and diverting
energy.
- Acts via Hormones: It releases hormones
(like CRH) that tell the pituitary gland to release more hormones, like
cortisol, for a sustained stress response.
- Maintains Balance (Homeostasis): It also regulates
hunger, thirst, body temperature, sleep cycles, and sexual drive, ensuring
your internal environment stays stable.
Thoughts come from three
places, God, self, and Satan. Thoughts
from Satan are in the form of temptations to bring us into sin every day. Your thoughts, including emotions) create the
"message," and the hypothalamus delivers that message to your body's
organs and glands, causing physical changes that can result in sickness and
disease.
Fear – Stress/anxiety which is fear
is mentioned a multitude of times in the bible.
It’s probably our #1 cause of medical issues. Fear enters our brain and it goes through the
hypothalamus and produces many, many, physical and emotional symptoms that lead
to health issues such as high blood pressure, panic attaches, migraines, heart
issues, circulation, and many more.
Unloving Spirit – The unloving spirit is
interconnected with fear and the vast majority suffer with not feeling loved or
not worthy to be loved at one level or another.
The unloving spirit can be passed down the generations and will affect
us from the time we are born until we pass.
Fear is not from God, 2
Timothy 1:7 God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and
of a sound mind. Fear is from Satan and he will use fear to torment us and
destroy us.
I believe that the most
effective prayer for this is:
Father God, in Jesus Name, I
command the hypothalamus to stop taking destructive information from the brain to
our bodies that leads to sickness and disease.
We take every evil spirit captive according to 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 and cast
it away. (2 Corinthians 10:4-5 For
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ).
If you have control of your
thoughts and especially emotional thoughts, you have control over your physical
body as it pertains to sickness and disease.
The only way to do this is through effective prayer. We cannot get healed if we don’t pray. Doctors and self-help will not heal us.
I will leave you all with this again: It’s a biological
truth that the things we think about and dwell on actually become part of who
we are. We will never get to the
spiritual roots of sickness and disease if we don’t first understand the
biology of how our minds affect our bodies.
There is a mind-body connection with the hypothalamus being the
switchboard from the mind to the body.
It is time for the church of Jesus Christ to make ourselves
available for teaching on how to effectively pray for each other so that we may
be in better health. 3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all
things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
Tony 12-14-2025
