Endocrine System Quotes

Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.

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you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.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.

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

There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

Arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, depression - all of those diseases are a result of our neglected biochemistry. We need to be stimulated to help fight disease. Cold is a great stimulator.

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.

Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more.

Look, there's no proof that athletes like us who may have higher testosterone levels are benefiting from this natural human body trait.

Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are put back in balance with natural bioidentical hormones, a woman or man resumes their normal life of feeling good and having days filled with quality.

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

I have a little bit of extra testosterone, and it's good to put it to work when I can.

I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.

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

There's estrogen running through my veins!

Testosterone levels are highest in the morning.

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

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

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

After the 2012 Olympics, I returned to training, but unlike in previous years, my off-season weight gain didn't melt off as soon as I got back to my routine. I was tired, and my clothes weren't fitting. I'd been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which means my thyroid is underactive, and that slows my metabolism.

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

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

Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.

I had some real health complications with my HRT - hormone replacement therapy.

If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body.

I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.