At the same time the hypothalamus basically produces and releases the hormones into this network of capillaries and then the hormone basically travels down into the portal veins through this region and into the capillaries found in the interior pituitary gland. And we have many of these endocrine glands that can either be stimulated or inhibited by the hormone released by the hypothalamus and that can basically release some type of hormone from the interior pituitary gland into the blood vessel of the bloodstream of our body. So there are six different types of hormones that we should know when it comes to our anterior pituitary gland. So we have the human growth hormone also known as simply the growth hormone. We have the drenocorticotropic hormone or ACTH. We have the thyroid stimulating hormone or TSH.