WEBVTT - Chuck and Josh Make It Through Female Puberty 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.160 Welcome to you Stuff you should know from house Stuff 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:13.320 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.560 Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Jerry's over there 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.320 to oversee this one in particular. Yeah, and uh, this 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.800 is stuffy should know. Yeah, I'm glad Jerry's here for 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:30.760 this one because if it was guest producer Noel, it 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.000 wouldn't be like, I don't know. Yeah, this is on 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:37.040 female puberty. Jerry went through female puberty. No did not. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.440 He did not, although Noel has a daughter, so he 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.600 might listen to this. So this one's for Nola exactly, 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.840 and for all you families out there, all you kids, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.839 all your parents. Just like with the male puberty episode, 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.600 we hope that this serves as a springboard to conversation 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.920 because from what I found in research, and I'm sure 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.160 you did as well, that one of the big big 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.440 things that you need to try to maintain, which is 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:08.279 exceedingly difficult, is open lines of communication with your pubescent daughter. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.360 And if you're the pubescent kid turning into a woman, 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.440 you need to try to share your feelings and talk 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.200 to your rents if at all possible. Yeah, that's tough. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.760 And you know, this is very similar to male puberty. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.280 I found not completely but well, I mean obviously physiologically 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.640 it's different, but going through a lot of the same stuff. Yeah, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.440 for sure. Um, and and you're right, there will be 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.440 that point as a parent where you and I've heard 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.120 this from friends where they finally look at their teenage 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.880 daughter who was you were once their hero and now 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.839 you're just a big lam Oh you're a zero, You're 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.520 not funny, you're not cool. Uh And why should I 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.280 listen to you about anything, because you're also a big 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:55.480 fat hypocrite, right exactly. Just get ready, folks, Yeah, get 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.120 ready to you. And then well yeah, true, yeah, but 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.000 then after the age of thirteen, you're gonna be friends 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.760 again when they're like in their mid twenties, and they're 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.000 gonna think you're great again after the age of thirteen. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.280 I don't think that's the way it works at all. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.920 Between thirteen and like three, oh yeah, they're probably gonna 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.760 think you're super lame. That's called the waste land years. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.320 And then they think you're cool again. Yeah, well I 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.160 was talking to give me about this. Then you feel 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:26.040 bad about you treated them from thirteen twenty you realize, Yeah, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:30.600 they're they're not so bad after all. That. So female 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.920 puberty and um, the girls, if you're listening to this 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.640 and you are going through puberty, you're about to go 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:44.040 through puberty. Um, let us just be the the just 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.680 one thing that you turn to to find out more 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.840 about talk to people. Like I said, there's also a 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:54.320 ton a ton of stuff on the internet that has 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.359 some really great advice suggestions just basically type female puberty. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.720 And anything that looks like it was compiled by a 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.960 doctor or reviewed by a doctor, it's probably fairly trustworthy. Yeah. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:10.000 And um, here's a piece of advice. Uh, go to 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:14.640 iTunes and subscribe to stuff mom never told you. Oh yeah, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.760 that's a good that's a good advice from our colleagues, 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:22.760 Caroline Kristen, because it is great and especially at that age, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.079 they will help you through a whole host of issues 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:31.600 hormonal and emotional and physical and empower you. And it's 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.639 a great show. And they even have covered this probably 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.120 better than we will. But at least let us get 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.280 you going in the right direction, you know, Like I'm 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.360 I'm tittering nervously over here. I think you can imagine, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:47.040 but I'm strangely calmer with this one than I was 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.560 with the male puberty one. I don't understand why. Yeah, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.520 I could tell you since uh, since that you were 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.200 more nervous than the other one. So it's great, you 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.200 know what it is because I got to come to 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.800 this one from the same research perspective, Like I'm researching. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.080 I'm not an expert, I'm an outsider researching it. And 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.560 here's what I came up with with male pubers, like 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.880 I went through there. So I think it was just 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.720 more personal. Maybe I hear you. Okay, so let's get 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.880 this started, right, okay, Chuck. Yes, Let's say you're a 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.480 little girl, okay, run about age eight, loving it. Things 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.880 are great and long. Maybe you got like, uh, your 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.720 nie skinned last week and that's bumming you out still, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.320 But for the most part, you're pretty happy with everything, 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.600 and then all of a sudden, things just start to 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.520 get a little weird. You can't quite put your finger 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.480 on it. But what just happened was the g p 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:49.800 R fifty four gene. Since that you have reached the 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:54.960 minimum amount of fat in your body. Lepton is what 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.360 it monitors, and it caused the hypothalmus, which is a 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.480 cute little playing in your brain to distribute a chemical 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.400 that it's just been holding in reserve basically since you 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.200 were born, called ganadotropin releasing hormon or g n r H. 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.120 And you know that game mouse Trap, which no one 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.280 on the history of Earth ever actually finished before they 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:19.839 just set it off and made the whole thing go. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.000 I didn't know there was a game attached to it, right, right, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.280 pretty much, that's pretty much what it evolves too. This 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.040 is basically like mouse Trap for your body. Yeah. And 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.960 that um, that fat that you were talking about in 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.520 the lefton that resides there, that is a little bit 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.200 of a newer finding. Uh. Previously, uh, they thought it 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.080 was a critical weight theory of puberty basically just once 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.839 you reach a certain mass. But now they're thinking it 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.200 actually has to do with the fat itself. So that's why, Uh, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.120 if you're a little girl that's overweight, you might go 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.320 through puberty a little bit earlier. Yeah, they think that 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:01.000 that's one reason why early onset puberty becoming more common, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.240 that's right, which we'll talk about also later, right, Yeah, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.600 which is not the same thing as precocious puberty. That's 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.120 an actual medical condition that you should see a doctor 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:14.440 about but between precocious puberty and hey, I'm just a 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.679 little bit on the early side, there's a very fuzzy 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.440 period now where there did not used to be. That 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.360 is not fully inderstood. No, they're still figuring it out. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.120 So don't feel bad if you don't feel like you 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.840 have anything figured out either right now? Okay? Agreed? So um, 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.000 the g n r H hormone, the ganeto ganado trope 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.000 and releasing hormone, comes out of your hypothalamus and it 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.359 slides its way down to your pituitary gland and it 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.000 sets off in your pituitary gland the release of two 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.960 really really important hormones that are going to be important 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.960 for the rest of your I guess productive life. Reproductive life. Yeah, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:55.160 LH the lutenizing hormone and f s H the follicle 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:59.599 stimulating hormone. And so these things start coursing through the body, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.040 entering your bloodstream. And what just happened to you, my 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:08.560 young friend, is the you hit puberty. Yeah, that that 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.120 just started. And at this point you could be somewhere 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.520 around age eight, nine ten. This is the first stage 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.000 of puberty. Basically anywhere between ages eight and eleven. I 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.200 think it's considered in the normal range. But like Chuck said, right, 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.880 there's you can go earlier, you can go later. Slapping 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.400 the term normal onto that is a really like touchy thing, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.040 and for good reason, because you know, this is a 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.280 very self conscious time in people's lives. So the idea 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.760 that you're outside of the norm on top of this 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.000 process of being abnormal or feeling abnormals, that's rough. But 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.440 say on average that you're between eight and eleven when 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.120 this first happens. Yeah, there was sent me that New 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.320 York Times article is really good about the onset of 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.840 female puberty and um since there was a landmark study 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.040 in nineteen sixty from the UK where they basically said 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.480 the average ages eleven, and that was always sort of 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.280 the common thinking. But there was a woman in the 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.840 nineteen eighties at the time, she was a physicians associate 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:18.200 at Duke named Marcia Herman Giddons, and she said, I'm 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.119 noticing a lot of eight and nine year old girls 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.160 in my clinic that are like getting pubic hare, that 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.840 are have their breast or butting, Like what's going on here? Uh? 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.920 And she started writing about that, and a lot of 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.559 endochronologists were saying no, no, no, no, no, that's not right. Uh. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.880 And for a couple of uh, about twenty five years, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.720 there was a big debate about it until finally, in 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:44.840 two thousand and ten, three major institutions Cincinnati Children's Hospital, 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.000 Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, and Mount Sinai School of 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.400 Medicine and New York UH published a study in Pediatric 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:58.800 saying that by age seven of white girls, of black girls, 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.400 of Hispanic girls, and two percent of Asian girls, we're 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:08.760 developing breasts, uh seven seven And that's that's budding breast. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.280 That's not necessarily puberty. But no, but that's that was 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:17.400 the marker for the onset of puberty. So basically they're 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.280 saying and now that they don't know quite why this 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:26.040 is happening, but they do think that, um, if you're overweight, 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.240 that that can set it off, like we said, and 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.000 really interesting that family stress they think can kick off 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.280 puberty earlier. H. They've done studies where they found if 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.200 you're from a broken home or if you were without 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.959 your biological father, you were more than twice as likely 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.160 to go into puberty early. The same with childhood depression 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.120 as well. Yeah, or if your mother is suffering from depression, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.640 it might kick that off. So I think just all 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.880 these family stresses can can just kick puberty in at 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.000 an earlier age. That's one of the theories at least. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.680 Well that makes sense too, because the what seems to 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.440 be the increase seemingly prevalent attitude toward what constitutes the 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.720 onset of puberty is that once once you're getantotropin hormone 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.840 is released, then you're in puberty. Everything else is just 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:16.640 kind of symptomatic or markers of puberty. Right, So if 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.600 you are undergoing a lot of stress, well that can 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.440 lead to hormonal release, right. Well. Yeah, Plus, the last 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.640 little point they make in this article was that makes 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.520 sense in an evolutionary sense as far as the theory goes. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.040 They think that if you have a stressful childhood, you're 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:36.120 inclined to earlier reproduction so you can survive bodies, Like, 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.760 we better get this underway. Yeah, Like, my family is stressed, 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.440 I don't know if I'm gonna survive, so I need 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.720 to have a baby at like a ten. That is 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.439 hardcore natural selection thinking, right, Yeah, pretty interesting, I think. Yeah, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.200 so the the pubescent markers, right, the milestones that you 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:58.840 go through typically go hormone release, breastbuds, the pubic hare right, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.640 and then those are the three things that that happened 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.920 in that order. Typically it can happen out of order. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.560 But with with that hormone release, the first thing that 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.480 starts it out, which is first stage of puberty. What's 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:15.400 what's happening is um, your the uterus, the womb right, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.440 which includes the uterus, the cervix, the fallopian tubes, ovaries, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.319 all this stuff are starting to develop. Um, you were born. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.880 I keep saying you, I'm not talking to you, Chuck, 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.400 Well I was. I'm the little girl in this experiment, right, girls, Okay, 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.200 so you you are. I'll just stay the little girl 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.080 that you have your skin knee I forgotten. Um you have. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.520 You were born with about two million to five million 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.080 UM undeveloped eggs, which are called follicles. And remember one 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.960 of those hormones that gets released as follicle stimulating hormones. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.959 So um, when your follicle hormones stimulating, When your follicle 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.440 stimulating hormones get at least, it goes down to your 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.160 ovaries and all of a sudden, you start to your 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.440 engine starts revving as far as your reproductive ability goes 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.960 that your body and you know, let's get you ready 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.680 to have a kid at some point, right, at some point. Yeah, 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.800 this this is a year's long process. But the point 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.360 is the first part of the whole thing is that 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:15.000 the cervix, the the ovaries, the Filippian tubes, the uterus 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:20.079 um all start to change internally and grow and develop. Sure. Yeah, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.839 so typically in the past, the beginning of puberty is 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:29.720 said to start with monarchy, which is weird because that 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:34.120 that word, that term, it has a long history with stuff. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.280 You should know, Yeah, because I remember on the Totem 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.920 Poles episode, it was that with the first appearance of it. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.280 I think so because they would often build monarchy totems 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.839 as a celebratory uh thing when a when a young 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.040 girl has her first period, that's called the monarchy, right, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.920 So typically that was always thought of as the first 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.400 sign of puberty or the first step. But as we know, 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.200 by the time monarchy comes on, you have already been 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.280 undergoing puberty inside your body for a little while. Yeah, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.280 it's kind of stupid to mark the onset of puberty 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.960 with monarchy, because monarchy actually represents the end of your 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:12.760 first reproductive cycle, even though you probably wouldn't have been 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.240 able to conceive in that first attempt at it. It's 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.600 your body like kind of going through a few dry runs. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.840 But that's a that doesn't make any sense to say, well, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:22.880 you had your first period, so now you're in puberty. 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.160 You've been in puberty for probably a couple of years 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:30.360 by then. That's uh, And that monarchy can very wildly. Um. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.760 They've done studies where they founded age difference of about 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.640 three and a half years, or it could be as 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.920 great as three and a half years, um, and it 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.800 all depends on you know, how fast your body is maturing. Well, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.240 they found a developmental difference in of up to three 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.160 and a half years and girls the same age, So 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.680 some girls were three and a half years further along 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:55.040 in puberty even though they were ten years old, you know. Um. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.040 So they figured out that hormones, probably the release of 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.360 hormones mark the onset of puberty. Um. One of the 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:06.160 other things that that comes along, like monarchy, can't it's 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:12.360 you notice it, right, It's very noticeable the thing that happens. Um. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.240 And that's why for so long they used to say, well, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.160 now everybody knows, so we know you're in puberty, right, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.040 even though it doesn't make any sense. As we've said, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.400 Another thing that happens fairly early on and girls in particular, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.880 is a growth spurt, but like a cartoon growth spurt, 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.520 like Roger rabbit growth spurt, because the hands and the 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.200 feet grow first. Yeah, well, they can grow about three 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.840 and a half inches in a single year, which is 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.240 a lot, but not your hands and feet. Well, yeah, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.200 you're you're your height, but the hands and feet are 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.880 gonna grow such that, um. You you might be a 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.360 little clumsy because you haven't gotten used to these big 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.200 banana boats at the end of your legs, right, but 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.400 fear not, because eventually the rest of your body is 0:14:55.400 --> 0:15:00.000 gonna grow, um, in sync with it. What's weird is that, um, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.400 girls grow through the growth spurts before boys. To do 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.040 you remember being like a boy and like the girls 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.800 all of a sudden in your class from like fifth 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.720 grade to sixth grade, where it's like, what what happened here? 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:17.520 What's going on? The giants? Exactly? Yeah? Year, Well, and 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.240 I was I was never like at the head of 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.320 my growth chart, so I was definitely like staring up 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.200 at girls wondering why they were taller than me. Why 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.600 are you mad? Why do I have special feelings about 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.320 this tall girl all of a sudden? Yeah, and why 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.880 are you so angry at me? Um? And we're gonna 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.560 talk to you boys here as well, because I can 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:41.080 definitely dole out some advice on how to treat your classmates. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.320 So I'll be sprinkling that in here and there, your 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.280 Uncle Chuck and Mr Clark. That's right. So you're gonna 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:49.920 have your big hands and your big feet. You're gonna 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.480 be tripping, you're gonna be dropping things, but everything. Don't worry, 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.040 it's gonna even out. Your body's gonna catch up. And 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.080 even though you may be taller than some of the 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.560 boys in your class, um, they're gonna catch up to Um. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.720 You're just a little bit ahead of the game. Yeah, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.400 nothing to feel bad about. But you should also not 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.840 feel bad about this break right now. And then we're 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.720 gonna come back and talk about more of this stuff. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:31.960 It's a chuck. We've kind of touched on it a 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.320 little bit. But let's let's talk about the actual stages 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.880 of puberty. Okay, let's so we've we've mentioned Stage one 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.560 is when the hormones start to get released from the 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:46.320 pituitary gland, the follicle stimulating hormone, lutenizing hormone, and these 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.840 along with estrogen for the rest of your reproductive life, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.840 which goes from the time of your first period until 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.680 um menopause. Right, those three hormones are gonna be really 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.480 really important, and they interact with one another, and UM 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.720 one triggers one and and suppresses the other UM and 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.919 all of them cause those follicles, remember those tiny undeveloped 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.320 eggs that you're born with, about two million, with to 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.399 develop into eggs about once a month, right, this is 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.360 your menstrual cycle, that's right. So by the time you 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.959 enter puberty, the two million follicles, those two million eggs 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.399 actually have dwindled down to about four hundred thousand. And 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.760 every time you menstright, starting with that first time, about 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.920 a thousand of those follicles get stimulated and start to 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.320 turn into eggs. But one of them is just like 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.159 the runaway stand out, the head of the class, the 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.320 A plus student, and that one will develop into what's 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.639 called an ovum, which is a matured, unfertilized egg. And 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.080 as your as your estrogen levels grow throughout the month 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.119 and increase and increase they hit this this peak level, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.680 and when it peaks, it triggers the sudden release of 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.720 lutenizing hormone, and that lutenizing hormone causes that egg to 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.800 pop out of your follicle and you know, the fallopian 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.760 tube and travel down to your uterus, and that is 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.199 called ovulation. This is probably not gonna happen on the 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:23.600 first period monarchy. Um, but I mean, it's entirely possible. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.000 But this is the when you have monarchy. It's um, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.560 it's again. It's usually like a dry run, like you're 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:34.240 trying to your body is figuring it out. Uh. Second stage? 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.640 Are we there yet? I think so? Okay, I guess 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.080 you should ask me. I'm the little girl here are 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.320 Are you ready to move on to the second stage? Yes, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.919 Mr Clark? Okay, uh oh man, weird is getting kind 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.960 of weird. The second stage of puberty. Um. Again, it's 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:53.760 going to vary in age, but we'll go ahead and 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.040 say like eleven or twelve years old, Um, this is 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.400 when your breasts are gonna begin to grow, or as 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.200 they say and butting, is when the ariola is gonna 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.280 darken and rise some and you're gonna get some of 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.199 that breast tissue. And you you know, it might be 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.640 at that point that your parents say, all right, well, 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.960 maybe it's time to go to the store and introduce 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.119 you to something called the brazier or which no one 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.719 calls it anymore, it's called a little bra. And um, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.159 you know, getting fitted for that thing I've heard is 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.200 not a lot of fun because it's like some big 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.119 mystery and it's hard to get it just right. But 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.800 hopefully mom and dad will will take you in or 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.080 a cool older sister. Yeah, and hopefully anyan dad's can 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.520 be involved in this stuff too. But since mom has 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.280 the experience, they can probably lend a little more like insight, 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.280 I would say. Right, and speaking of your mom, if 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.240 you have a wish to know probably what your breaths 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.439 are going to grow too in size. That sounded like 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.800 a joke, like an elementary school joke, speaking of your mom. Yes, 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.080 you your your mom's breast size is probably a decent 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.400 indicator of what yours is gonna grow too. But you're 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.239 made up of your mom and your dad, and your 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.400 dad just he just throws the whole thing off. So really, ultimately, 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.640 the best the best resources to look at your maternal 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.400 and paternal grandmothers and see what their breast sides look like. Right, 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.040 and don't freak out if there's are around their waist 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:29.919 because breast fall over the years and you don't need 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:31.800 to sweat that just yet. Maybe you could look at 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.800 pictures of them when they were younger, finally hit on 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.720 that might be horrifying. The third stage, Oh wait, I'm sorry. 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.560 Second stage, you're gonna start getting some of that pubic hare, right, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.439 and that's when the growth spurt's going to appear as well. 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.919 And your bones are growing really really fast. Um, but 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.920 they're not as dense as they would be normally. They're 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.720 not calcified fully, so they can break pretty easy. So 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:57.480 you need to be careful here. Yeah, that's why you 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.960 see a lot of little girls little boys walk around 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:04.240 arm casts. Although I have never broken a bone. I 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.560 think you better knock on wood. I'm knocking on wood. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.399 Do you still have that knock on wood? President? I 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:12.719 got you, I sure do, nice. I do it all 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:17.359 the time at home. Uh. Third stage pubic care is 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.159 going to continue to grow. The breasts are going to 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.200 continue to grow. Hair actually shows up all over the place. Yeah, 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:25.720 just like a little boys. All of a sudden, it 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.200 was like in the armpits. It's around your growing areas 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:33.320 like a jungle. Yeah, just growing all over the place. Uh. 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.639 Your vagina is gonna grow in size. And this is 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:41.080 usually about the age of twelve to thirteen. And by 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:45.040 this time, about seventy of girls, um that have hit 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.000 stage three have already had monarchy. That's right. And you 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.440 might say we should probably pause here for a second, chuck. 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.680 If if you are a girl listening to this, there 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.040 might be a burning question like what is going on? Why? 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.320 What's the teleological reason for all of this? Right? Sure, 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.560 that's what they're saying. Um, what has happened is your 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:09.240 body has sensed that you you have enough fat to 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:14.679 sustain a child, a fetus, and your body is undergoing 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.560 the necessary changes to allow you to conceive a child 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:20.639 and then carry it to full term. That's what's happening 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.440 with your body right now, That's right. Another thing that's 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:27.439 gonna happen is you're gonna start sweating and becoming a 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.800 stinky little monster. Uh. And that's probably when you're gonna say, Hey, 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.280 while we're at the store getting my first bra, how 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:36.840 about a stick of Deo durant, right, anti perse print. 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.439 Those days of chasing fireflies all night and not taking 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:44.120 a bath for eight days with no repercussions, right, and 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.840 not smelling at all, smelling like a daisy the whole time. 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:49.119 Those days are gone for the rest of your life. 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.600 That's right. And parents, be you know, sensitive to this. 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:55.479 Don't make fun of your kids. Tell them there're stinky 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.080 monsters like I just did. Well, Yeah, you're talking to 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.159 other people's kids. Yeah, be nicer about it, because some 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:03.600 kids might laugh and think it's funny. Some kids might 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:07.800 be very sensitive to that thing. Just the tad you know, 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:11.880 which is normal. It's normal stage four around the age 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:15.800 of thirteen or fourteen. Um. The height that you're growing 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:17.520 is gonna slow down a little bit. You're not gonna 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.399 be growing as tall. Boys are gonna start catching up 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:24.160 to you in height and your fat levels. Your body 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:28.600 fat is gonna basically reach your adult level body fat. 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:30.720 Like in just a couple of years, you could have 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:32.919