Hormonal Regulation Quotes

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.

Our bodies are finely tuned machines, and if our hormone mixtures aren't 'just right', everything goes into disrepair.

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough.

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.

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!

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

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

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.

More of us may be affected by variant hormone levels than we realize.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

Any drug that alters a female's hormonal composition is a big deal. I have written about my journey with hormonal concoctions, and I assure you that they are nothing to be taken lightly.

When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.

Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf within a few months.