What is puberty?OK, so it's a funny word — but what is puberty, anyway?
Puberty is the name for the time when your body begins to develop and change as you move from kid to adult. We're talking about stuff like girls developing breasts and boys starting to look more like men. During puberty, your body will grow faster than at any other time in your life, except for when you were a baby. Two parts of the brain called the hypothalamus (hy-po-thal-a-mus) and the pituitary (pit-u-it-ary) gland start making a lot more of some hormones including growth hormone, LH and FSH (follicle stimulating hormone). These hormones act on other parts of your body to make the changes happen. |