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Quotes About Hormones

I was (an am) unsure about how I am related to my old self, or to myself from year to year. The hormonal profile of an individual determines much of the manifest personality. If you skew the endocrine system,you loose the pathways to the self. When endocrine patterns change it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.
~ Hilary Mantel
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
The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.
~ Liane Moriarty
When you were young you talked about 'falling in love' with such amusing gravity, as if it were an actual recordable event, when what was it really? Chemicals. Hormones. A trick of the mind.
~ Liane Moriarty
The violent chords and strident voices were so startlingly different from the chiming, bubbling relaxation tapes she played all day that it was like having a bucket of cold water thrown over her head. The Violent Femmes reminded her of the eighties, and being a teenager, and feeling supercharged with hormones and hope.
~ Liane Moriarty
Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
~ Unknown
She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.
~ Linda Howard
I was just trying to give you the teen-male perspective." "Which is?" "If it moves, screw it.
~ Lisa Jackson
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
~ P. C. Cast
More of us may be affected by variant hormone levels than we realize.
~ Mary Lou Jepsen
The first step to optimising testosterone is eating right. That means cutting out the processed junk food and focusing on high quality proteins, carbs, fats, and an abundance of fruits and vegetables. Don't fall into the 'low fat' eating trap, as this will seriously inhibit your testosterone production.
~ James Haskell
Is that why you're crying? (...) It's just hormones, she said. I didn't want anyone to see. I skipped over the image of anyone seeing her hormones and tried to focus on the heart of the matter.
~ Jeff Lindsay
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~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We are middle-aged. This is what happens. All the same nonsense that comes with puberty occurs again during perimenopause—the hormone surges, the moodiness, and the hair appearing where there wasn't hair before. Except instead of filling in under the arms and on nether regions, these coarse follicles of hate are showing up on our freaking faces.
~ Jen Lancaster
High stress causes a fight-or-flight reaction, releasing adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones can suppress immune, digestive, sleep and reproductive systems, which, if sustained, may cause them to stop working normally.
~ Jen Lancaster
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
~ Jennifer Weiner
I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Physical emotions are moved by chemicals, nerve endings, weather, digestion, hormones, and a thousand other things in the body or the physical world. Animals can't love without physical emotion. Angels can't love with physical emotion. We can love with or without physical emotion.
~ Peter Kreeft
el órgano del corazón envía información al cerebro y al cuerpo a través de cuatro conductos: el sistema de comunicación neurológico (mediante las vías ascendentes del sistema nervioso autónomo); la comunicación biofísica (la onda del pulso); la bioquímica (el corazón segrega una serie de hormonas); y el campo electromagnético que genera el corazón.5
~ Unknown
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~ Unknown
When it comes to losing weight, balancing your hormones is absolutely crucial. Not only will it help you lose weight by correcting a sluggish metabolism, but you'll look more rested and vibrant, your mood will improve, and you'll get your libido back!
~ Suzanne Somers
El ejercicio reduce las hormonas de aumento de peso, como el cortisol, al liberar endorfinas para combatir el estrés; también incrementa la producción de hormonas quemadoras de grasa, como la testosterona, la hormona del crecimiento humano, la DHEA y la tiroxina (T4). Necesitas ejercicio. Punto.
~ Jillian Michaels
Las mujeres con síndrome de ovarios poliquísticos tienen niveles más altos de BPA en la sangre comparadas con las mujeres que no tienen la enfermedad.
~ Jillian Michaels
A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.
~ Jim Butcher