If the mechanisms of a nation had organs, we would all recognize how essential the optimal functioning of its command centers is: the hypothalamus, pituitary, and pineal gland.
In the human body, these are the managers of metabolism (the constant flow of energy and matter through the network of chemical reactions that sustain and regenerate an organism) and the guardians of internal balance.
Listening this week, during the anniversary broadcasts on Radio România Cultural dedicated to Queen Marie, I wondered:
— Between 1893 and 1927, where would I place the British princess within the body of the Romanian nation?
After the fascinating conversations of these days, I confidently place her in the pineal gland — where feeling and reason converge to regulate the rhythms of the organism.
King Ferdinand is granted the throne of the hypothalamus, the supreme command center that establishes the direction and strategy of the organism. The state and government at that time occupy the pituitary position, translating the king’s decisions into concrete actions, maintaining homeostasis, and carefully monitoring the vibrations of the political or administrative pulse.
A woman, mother, queen consort, journalist, writer, a true editorial and artistic phenomenon, diplomat, and leader — Marie is the internal eye, the pineal gland of the nation, a person who built elegance from beauty, intelligence, and humanity, transforming it into a valuable resource for communication and shaping an almost sacred sense of royalty. The queen of Russian and British origin harmonized Romania’s spiritual rhythm with that of the civilized world, overseeing the territorial, political, economic, cultural, and spiritual balance of the entire Romanian organism.
In classical endocrinology, hypothalamic hormones stimulate pituitary hormones through a vertical “feed-forward” action, and the pituitary, in turn, inhibits hypothalamic hormones through feedback mechanisms. Similarly, interactions within the state apparatus reflect these processes.
Although this is undoubtedly true, the hypothalamus itself is regulated by the pineal gland.
The pineal gland has long been a source of medical, philosophical, theological, and spiritual reflection. Brilliant minds have considered it the “seat of the soul.” Its physiological purpose, however, is equally magnificent and uplifting, even if we do not attribute it such grandeur.
The pineal gland is also called the cerebral epiphysis — epiphysis cerebri — or conarium, because, upon anatomical examination, it resembles a pine cone (from which “pineal” derives).
The human organism has intrinsic rhythms that respond to the demands of the external world: day and night, seasons, solar eruptions, geomagnetic fluctuations, or electromagnetic vibrations. The pineal gland harmonizes internal rhythms with external ones, tuning our microcosm to the macrocosm and adjusting metabolism and adaptive capacity to life on this rotating geoid-shaped object, revolving around a sphere of hot plasma, the Sun.
It is, literally, the “third eye,” an internal eye of the body. It reacts to the duration of light perceived by the physical eyes and transforms this information into electrochemical signals in the form of hormones, which directly influence the four endocrine axes.
Through its principal hormone, melatonin, the pineal gland acts as a supra-axial epi-endocrine gland, regulating both centrally and peripherally. Melatonin has a restorative and regenerative mission at night and a protective and motor function during the day. It also plays a key role through its response to the quantity and duration of light in numerous adaptive syndromes.
In other words, the pineal gland is the pillar around which all other endocrine axes function, in relation to their chronobiological operation, that is, biological rhythms modulated over time.
Like the pineal gland, Queen Marie was the subtle center of the country in the early 20th century, harmonizing connections, souls, and cultures, and imprinting regal elegance permanently in the memory of those who honor her.
Perhaps one of her books will someday enter school bibliographies, and perhaps she will become a posthumous influencer, one who continues to illuminate lucidly and inspire through the legacy she left behind.
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