Hormones Quotes - page 3

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. (Lewis Thomas)
Gotta love alcohol and sex hormones. View quote
Tucker Max
...I was desperate to write a trans character for whom it wasn't really an issue. After you come out, after the initial makeover and being on hormones for a few years, what happens next? That's a story nobody tells... View quote
Juno Dawson
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medication. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
One woman came to me recently, since this happened, and described that she needs contraception to prevent seizures. So she has several seizures a month if she doesn't have contraception to balance her hormones. And that's just an incredible intrusion on her life, her ability to manage her daily affairs, if she doesn't have access to that medical prescription. So that's one of the huge impacts. View quote
Sandra Fluke
The difficulty with our bisexual construct is that it locates the origin and meaning of preference too much inside the lone individual and not enough in the social surround. The notion of sexual preference, with its linking conception "sex object choice," requires an individual difference psychology of choice and free will that may correspond to the reality of philosophers, but seldom does for ordinary mortals. Our sexual development is driven and regulated by extraordinary forces, intrinsic and extrinisic, which include our genes, hormones, early parental relationships, peer pressures, cultural training for categories and language, and out-and-out social sanctions and physical force. We seldom are free to choose freely, but entertain the enchantment that we can. View quote
Gilbert Herdt
The greatest array of brain hormones is found in the ventricle, not in the spinal fluid. View quote
Richard Bergland
The measurement of hormones in the bloodstream of patients will not reflect the endocrine activity of the brain. View quote
Richard Bergland
Brain/body relationships might depend upon a chorus of individual hormones... which are released together to sing hormonal harmonies to the body. View quote
Richard Bergland
Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes. (José Canseco)
The double-think of modern science-'Molecules shape the body, but electricity shapes the mind'-ends abruptly with the realization that regulatory hormones control both brain and body functions. View quote
Richard Bergland
The science of neuroendocrinology-the brain-to-pituitary link that was discerned by [Joe] Hinsey, [George] Wislocki, du Vigneaud, and [Geoffrey] Harris-is dependent upon hormones flowing within nerve axons. This phenomenon, axonal flow, was first noted by Ernst and Barta Scharrer... For many decades it was assumed that axonal flow was always 'down'... away from the brain. View quote
Richard Bergland
Animal experiments have confirmed the necessity of delivering hormones into the ventricle: the powerful hormone endorphin does not change behaviour if it is given intravenously; vasopressin will improve memory in animals only if it given into the ventricles; insulin given through the bloodstream does not control appetite but it is the best hormone for such control if given into the brain; and bombesin... only stops stomach ulceration if given into the brain. View quote
Richard Bergland