What Is the Main Function of the Pituitary Gland?
Short answer: the pituitary is the body’s chief endocrine dispatcher. From its seat in the sella turcica at the base of the brain, it releases hormones that keep core processes—growth, stress response, reproduction, lactation, thyroid function, and water balance—within healthy ranges. It does this under minute-to-minute direction from the hypothalamus, using exquisitely tuned feedback loops…