Lisa Scottoline Quotes

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

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

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.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

Adrenaline is an amazing thing.

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.

Five hours a week of vigorous aerobic exercise can lower estrogen and progesterone exposure by about 20 per cent.

Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.

There is absolutely no difference between alcohol prohibition and drug prohibition except the drug being prohibited.

Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it... The arguments against marijuana today are the same as the arguments against liquor years ago.

Adrenaline is an incredible thing.

If your body produces testosterone naturally, fine. Mine doesn't.

If you bring in testosterone outside your body, it probably stops producing it because it thinks you're going to get it from the outside.

Your body requires hydration to digest your food, to regulate your hormones, and to be able to think clearly.

There's estrogen running through my veins!

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.

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

Testosterone levels are highest in the morning.

The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.

One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop.

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning.

If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.