Quotes About Physiology

When I was running as an athlete, I'd be looking at my heart rate, monitoring when it started to peak, when it plateaued. I'd make a note of the oxygen debt in my body and would always be working to a specific time.

Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.

Other primate penises are pencil-thin, whereas the erect human penis averages over one inch in diameter. Also, most other primates have a penis bone called the baculum, and achieve erections mostly through muscular control, like a winch raising a rigid strut. The penis bone is typical of most mammals. By contrast, the male human relies on an unusual system of vasocongestion. The penis fills with blood before copulation, like a blimp inflating before flight.

Among primates, the intensity of sperm competition correlates much more strongly with testicle size than with penis size.

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

Regardless of your sex, if you have elevated testosterone levels in your blood, you're more likely to think a face with a neutral expression is instead looking threatening.

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.

When we see something we want to eat, when we receive praise, and even when we hug our children, our mouths literally water," says Huron. In any type of pleasure state, our mouths produce more saliva. Our tongue moves more fluidly within the mucous membranes of our mouth, creating what Huron calls "oral wetness cues." Oral wetness is a subtle and involuntary reflex; however, it broadcasts our emotional state.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

its adult size by nine months and nearly three-quarters by two years of age, a baby's head must be large and grow rapidly to accommodate the rest of the body's growth. On average, the brain reaches its maximum size in girls at about eleven and a half years of age and fourteen and a half on average for boys—but again it will not be fully mature in terms of its internal development and executive functioning until about twenty-five

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as applied to the whole universe: they envisaged the end of man and the dying out of this sphere.

Simply put, Leonardo replaced the mystic black bile, faculties, and spirits that permeated the writings of Galen, Avicenna, de Luzzi, and others, with his physical powers of movement, weight, force, and percussion - the building blocks of mechanics. he further used these mechanical concepts to demystify a whole host of physiological processes.

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Recuerde que su conducta resulta de su estado, y que éste resulta de sus representaciones internas y de su fisiología, cosas ambas que puede usted cambiar en cuestión de instantes.

Things like muscle tension, what we eat, how we breathe, our posture, our overall level of biochemical functioning, all have a huge impact on our state.

Fizyoloji ile iç temsil aras?nda doÄŸrudan bir baÄŸlant? vard?r. Birisini deÄŸiÅŸtirince diÄŸeri de deÄŸiÅŸir. -S?n?rs?z Güç

The mind and body are totally linked. The way you use your physiology—the way you breathe and hold your body, your posture, facial expressions, the nature and quality of your movements—actually determines what state you are in.

mental en el capítulo 7. La tercera puerta es la fisiología. Entre la mente y el cuerpo existe una vinculación total. El modo en que utiliza usted su fisiología (la manera de respirar, las posturas y actitudes corporales, las expresiones faciales, la naturaleza y la calidad de sus movimientos) determinan efectivamente el estado en que se encuentra.

Two minutes of posing can lead to the changes that either configure your brain to be assertive, confident, and comfortable, or really stress reactive. Our bodies are able to change our minds!