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Quotes About Physiology

Your hair grows more quickly when you're anticipating sex.
~ John Lloyd
It takes 17 muscles for a human to smile. So it doesn't necessarily mean you're happy when you smile, it means you're strong.
~ Unknown
The task of the cervix is to stay closed, to make an impenetrable wall protecting the fetus, for approximately forty weeks of a pregnancy. After that, by means of labor, the wall must somehow become an opening. This happens through dilation, which is not a shattering, but an extreme thinning.
~ Maggie Nelson
The skin was not skin at all, but bone. Ectoskeleton.
~ John Steakley
Men, they were able to conjure it up immediately, that was one of their powers, that thunderous splashing as they stood lordly above the bowl. Everything about them was more direct, their insides weren't the maze women's were, for the pee to find its way through.
~ John Updike
Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
~ Gabriel Cousens
Lo que sentimos no depende tan solo de lo que esté ocurriendo en el cuerpo y en nuestra fisiología, sino también y, fundamentalmente, de las expectativas y de cómo estamos valorando una determinada situación.
~ Unknown
El hipotálamo está compuesto por una serie de núcleos que llevan a cabo funciones diferentes y es una parte fundamental de lo que se considera como cerebro reptiliano, nombre que acuñó el doctor Paul MacLean.
~ Unknown
Recordemos que tanto la piel como el sistema nervioso son las únicas estructuras que proceden de la misma hoja embrionaria, el ectodermo.
~ Unknown
químico en el que viven ha cambiado, responderán con cambios en su función. Estoy convencido de que los cambios físicos y las sanaciones que se ven en muchas personas después de cambiar ciertos esquemas de pensamiento, obedecen a esta transformación en la respuesta celular. Por eso es por lo que es tan importante
~ Unknown
person: low muscle mass, inflammation, high triglycerides, low good cholesterol, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure.
~ Mark Hyman
If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.
~ Martin Mull
Neolithicization is the evolutionary cessation from a physiological perspective.
~ Unknown
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
~ Marvin Dunnette
Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.
~ Mary Roach
I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.
~ Mat Johnson
Interestingly, slushie ingestion not only delayed the point at which the subjects reached a critically high core body temperature, but also allowed a higher tolerable core body temperature before exhaustion was reached. In other words, the slushie let them start colder and get hotter.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Perceived effort actually has two layers. The first layer is how the athlete feels. The second layer is how the athlete feels about how she feels. The first layer is strictly physiological, whereas the second is emotional, or affective.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
The human body produces an estimated 2,709 enzymes that facilitate approximately 896 chemical reactions.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Action and reaction generates the six tissue states.
~ Unknown