I think the person asking is thinking about animal adrenal glands...but perhaps the Pedosta brothers are thinking about children.
Sometime ago, I read that Hillary takes a natural thyroid med for hypothyroidism. Just googled “thyroid adrenal gland”. Apparently those with hypothyroidism can have weak adrenal glands. Just throwing this out there.
brains are sweetbreads
brain looks like a walnut
lots of epi/norepi there too.........