Best 68 quotes in «hormones quotes» category

Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society’s disapproval.

Sex Games: What Men Really Think About Sex Partners (Sexuality, Cheating

Stop exhuming the women's health initiative for which doctors prescribe hormones. The WHI for HRT standards is a dead and irrelevant paradigm to modern HRT that needs to be buried.

Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

Testosterone has far less to do with aggression than most assume. Within the normal range, individual differences in testosterone levels don’t predict who will be aggressive. Moreover, the more an organism has been aggressive, the less testosterone is needed for further aggression. When testosterone does play a role, it’s facilitatory—testosterone does not 'invent' aggression. It makes us more sensitive to triggers of aggression. Also, rising testosterone levels foster aggression only during challenges to status. Finally, crucially, the rise in testosterone during a status challenge does not necessarily increase aggression; it increases whatever is needed to maintain status. In a world in which status is awarded for the best of our behaviors, testosterone would be the most prosocial hormone in existence.

That we are horny creatures is proven by the fact that the invention of video calling found us already having sex over the phone.

The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. They mold her desires and values.

... she bowed just low enough to draw the young man's [Daniel Carpenter] eyes to her décolletage. He flushed and looked away sternly. After a second. Tough to blame the kid. I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe.

Science has proven that while your genes control your biology, a rather simple, nondrug formula of nutrient-rich food, targeted supplements to address missing precursors, and lifestyle changes can keep your genes in perpetual “repair” mode.

There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.

There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with.

There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.

The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people

The use of reason and that of an erect penis are mutually exclusive.

The organs that have been identified as having issues in very high altitude worker Steven Magee are: 1. Brain. 2. Lungs. 3. Heart. 4. Skin. 5. Liver. 6. Bones. 7. Gastrointestinal system. 8. Kidneys 9. Vitamin B12 & iron absorption problems are currently being diagnosed and may involve the stomach, intestines, liver & blood. 10. Hormonal problems that involve various organ systems of the body.

The women's health initiative standards for HRT is nothing but an embarrassment to all physicians, and I'm not sure why they have not retracted all the statements that came out of that joke of a study.

Why don’t you tell people what happened last night” “You slept on the sofa!” “And why is that?” “Because you’re .... incompetent

Weight gain, mood swings, fatigue, and low libido aren’t diseases that can be “cured” with a quick injection or a pharmaceutical. Most of these problems can’t be permanently solved by eating less or exercising more. They are hormonal problems. They mean our bodies are trying to tell us that something is wrong.

What else will we do?" I asked, turning to leave. "This is the only plan we have." "This isn't a plan," Prof said. "It's hormones.

● We make changes when the pain of staying the same (same weight, same mood, same stress-crazed schedule) is greater than the perceived pain of change. I discovered (as have my patients) that there is a way to make those changes that is safe, proven, effective, easy, and, most importantly, fun.

Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?" I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing. "Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality." "We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass." You see what I'm up against.

Why is it up to me to shepherd a man’s—any man’s—hormones?

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

When I was suddenly thrust into what everyone calls menopause (Orchids) earlier than my body planned, I decided someone needed to take charge on so many levels. It was time to not only change the vernacular, but to speak up and say "Hey! This isn't an old lady's disease! We aren't old! We are strong and dammit, we are beautiful and sexy too!

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

You see, I'd behaved pretty badly. Losing my head about someone I didn't really love and hurting someone I did. Why is one so stupid?" "The heart has its reasons," said Will, "and the endocrines have theirs.

When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.

If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.

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

Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.

It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

A sane man is at his sanest just after he has orgasmed.

The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have those spikes in insulin that occur when you eat large meals.

What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.

The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.

To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone.

And anyway, never, never apologise the morning after for what your hormones were telling you last night.

between the love and the lust, between the feelings and the hormones, between the heart and the body love, feelings and the heart prevails over everything else.

But have you ever tried to walk away from a flirtation? It's good advice to do so, maybe. But it's like telling someone to walk away from a dragon's hoard of gold. It's so rare, so unusual and so completely overwhelming to feel that attention on you, to feel those warmth-giving hormones flood your brain and your body. It feels like an intrinsic good. Natural, and normal, and right. Yes, you could choose not to proceed. But also, no, you can't.

Cortisol vs oxytocin Dawn of mood

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.