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Pimples, hair growth, breast, body odor, growth, menstruation, and unexpected erections. Can you recall this dramatic incline of change? This very confusing, competitive, and conflicting time in your life. Don’t worry, we’ve all been through it. Well, at least all of us here I hope. Some of us more affected than others, but all of us affected in some type of way. There’s one word that embodies all of these great symptoms, and it’s called puberty.

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Today I’ll be explaining why you had to go through this tunnel of revolution in order to reach your peak of evolution. I’ll also be explaining what happens in this tunnel biological, mentally, physically, and environmentally.

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Usually after a girl turns eight and a boy reaches double digits puberty begins. An area of the brain called the hypothalamus starts to release GnRH also known as the gonadotropin-releasing hormone. This release allows the body to make the changes it needs from childhood into adulthood. In females, the ovaries begin to produce estrogen, this is the reason why the breast being to rapidly grow, some of us slower than others.

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. It’s also the reason why females start to have metabolic changes which either causes you to quickly gain or lose weight. This causes a lot of mood swings, insecurities, and curiosity. Your body changes in so many differents ways that it’s hard to keep up with.

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One day you have a clear face, no hips, and a chest that goes right to your stomach. The next day you have rocky roads covering your forehead and cheeks, love handles, and two giant mosquito bites under your collar bones. With all of the negatives, you have to look on the bright side ladies. You are at your peak in your life when you can truly find and discover yourself.

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You have the ability to push your bodies to the limit, in the right way. Males: for you, it’s a little different, the testicles increase the production of testosterone. Which causes your first little erection, your body to become fetid, and your voice to go from Spongebob to Mufasa. This is the males bulletproof stage, when they think that nothing can hurt nor stop them.

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These are the risky days, the days when you are most likely to try new and risky things, which if you are smart, you will learn to stop trying after they become dangerous to you. Both genders go through some of the same emotional changes, that stages of awkwardness that we all have to experience and the pressure amongst all of our friends to be like all of our friends.

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Puberty is a transition where we not only have to deal with all of the physical changes in our bodies but we also have to deal with the outside factors and the pressures that we take in from everything and everyone around us, some of which we make up in our own heads.