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Quotes About Hormones

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.
~ Gloria Steinem
When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.
~ Helen Fisher
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.
~ Maureen Dowd
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.
~ Roseanne Barr
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
~ Aldous Huxley
So you love me, said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand, said Bean. You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice. That's nice, she said...
~ Orson Scott Card
I don't begrudge the kids their hormones or their illusions of immortality.
~ Wally Lamb
For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
~ Aldous Huxley
En stund gråter hun. Jeg vil tro at det er fordi hun er gravid. En gang sa Munita at gravide kvinner lett tar til tårene. Det har visstnok noe å gjøre med at det dannes så mye fostervann i livmoren at det flommer over iblant.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Steinach found that, when sexually mature white rats were castrated, though at first they remained as potent as ever, their potency gradually declined; sexual excitement, however, and sexual inclination always persisted.
~ Havelock Ellis
Hormones contribute to intelligence and creativity, critical thinking, abstract analysis.
~ Laurie Frankel
When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.
~ Mark Waid
I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.
~ Jo Brand
T2DM is simply the result of chronic excessive carbohydrate consumption beyond the genetically predetermined maximum carbohydrate handling capacity of the insulin-glucagon hormonal system.
~ Tim Noakes
For men, the "boner or no boner" test is a simple but excellent indicator of sleep quality, hormonal health (GH, FSH, testosterone), circadian rhythm timing, and more.
~ Timothy Ferriss
In the context of body redesign, there are two fundamental MEDs to keep in mind: To remove stored fat ? do the least necessary to trigger a fat-loss cascade of specific hormones. To add muscle in small or large quantities ? do the least necessary to trigger local (specific muscles) and systemic (hormonal2) growth mechanisms.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Boner or No Boner? "Men, if you wake up and you don't have a boner, there's a problem. Yes or no? One or zero? Boner, no boner?
~ Timothy Ferriss
Hot baths can also significantly increase GH over baseline, and both sauna and hot baths have been shown to cause a massive release in prolactin, which plays a role in wound healing. I
~ Timothy Ferriss
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones. - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)
~ P.C. Cast
glucocorticoid treatments that had destroyed her reproductive
~ Dan Brown
What do you expect?" she said. "Kids get to their teen years, the hormones kick in, and they spend a few years operating without a frontal lobe.
~ Chip Heath
Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.
~ Helen Fisher
The reverse can also happen: as a man becomes more and more attached to his family, levels of testosterone can decline. In fact, at the birth of a child, expectant fathers experience a significant decline in levels of testosterone.66 Even when a man holds a baby, levels of testosterone decrease. This
~ Helen Fisher