The other day we were asked to write a rap/poem/song/story about the Endocrine System. So Anne and I wrote a rap! Actually, it's a parody of Macklemore's "Can't Hold Us"... yep, so here it is :p
"Endocrine System"
Endocrinology, listen up!
Where it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn’t.
Learning ‘bout a system that’s controlling all the hormones
Like the Pituitary, Pineal, Parathyroid and others
They’re up! Brain base, respectively, center of the brain, right around the throat
Somewhere above the thymus and thyroid. Endocrine, yep, yep, we’re not androids
Yup. Throat, location, this here is our thyroid, close above the thymus,
And they’re all near the head
Going down, I shed my skin and see my adrenals on my kidneys, and then, for the Women there’s the ovaries
And yet I’m not done.
Pituitary glands control all else,
The pineal glands always help you to sleep really well.
Pancreas, regulates sugar in the body with insulin
Parathyroid controls the growth of the bones,
The thymus creates T-cells so disease leaves you alone
Adrenals pump the adrenaline, rapid heart and breathing
Got ducts? They’re the E-X-O-C-R-I-N-E glands,
Endocrine go straight to the bloodstream, can they be ductless? Yes they can.
Ovaries and testes are located downstairs,
They control reproduction and they work together as a pair
Ducts
Not like duck duck goose,
The kind with glands and duct duct juice
Spread it across the body
Ducts out here,
Now there’s the Exocrine,
Pumpin’ substance to the outside,
And the Endocrine, which keeps it all inside
Wait ‘till we go back, this is the body
These are the glands and all of their functions
So we put them in a song it’s the endocrine system
It’s the endocrine system
Wait ‘till we go back, this is the body
These are the glands and all of their functions
So we put them in a song it’s the endocrine system
It’s the endocrine system
