- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Glands Quotes
Lines on the body's quiet chemistry
From pituitary hormones to the discovery of nerves controlling salivary glands, this set of quotes looks at the body's chemistry with genuine curiosity. A few speakers connect gland function to personal well-being, admitting they'd rather laze around than overwork their system. For more on staying Better, see that related page.
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- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had friends who've had depression or been on medication because their pituitary glands aren't giving out enough hormones - so I've been around a lot of people who've had problems like that. I've always been open to talk about that.
- Discovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gastric
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no desire to work my adrenal glands any harder than necessary. I like lazing around; it's pretty important to my well-being. But I also get bored, so that's when my culture-vulturing kicks in.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020