Mitogen

Okay, kiddo, let's talk about mitogen.

When your body wants to grow or repair itself, it needs a signal to tell your cells to start dividing and making more cells. This signal is called a mitogen. Mitogens are like little messengers that tell your cells it's time to start growing!

Think of your cells like lego blocks. When you want to build something big and cool, you need a lot of lego blocks. The same goes for your body. When you need to grow or repair something, you need a lot of cells.

But here's the thing: your body doesn't want your cells to grow and divide all the time. If that happened, you'd have an uncontrollable mess! So, mitogens are only sent out when your body really needs them.

Some examples of when your body might need mitogens are when you're healing from a cut or a broken bone, or when you're going through puberty and your body is growing really quickly.

In short, mitogens are like the conductor of an orchestra, telling your cells when it's time to start playing their parts to help your body grow and repair itself.