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date: 2023-07-24T15:02:00-04:00
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[Health & Sexuality Info](/health-info)# puberty

The process of physical and sexual changes from childhood to adulthood, initiated by hormone signals from the brain to the gonads. [**Puberty**](https://www.scarleteen.com/read/glossary#puberty) usually takes several years to complete -- sometimes even more than five or six -- and changes the brain, bones, muscles, skin, breasts and reproductive organs.

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