Ivan Pavlov Quotes

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

Adrenaline is an amazing thing.

Adrenaline is an incredible thing.

The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions.

I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone.

Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal.

The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

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.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it tries to get rid of you, and it usually activates the cancers in perimenopause.

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.