Stress and Growth Hormone
What impresses me is how careful and calculating the body has to be during Stress in order to coordinate hormonal activities just right. It must perfectly balance the costs and benefits, knowing exactly when to stop secreting the hormone. (Location 1870)
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Glucocorticoids (such as hydrocortisone) are prescribed in vast amounts, because of their immunosuppressive or anti-inflammatory effects. (Location 1902)
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Much of preventative medicine is a demonstration that vast numbers of adverse health situations can be reversed—in fact, that is a premise of this book. (Location 1925)
bones serve as the Federal Reserve for the body’s calcium, constantly giving and collecting loans of calcium to and from other organs. (Location 1950)
Predictably, the hormones of stress wreak havoc with the trafficking of calcium, biasing bone toward disintegration, rather than growth. The main culprits are glucocorticoids. They inhibit the growth of new bone by disrupting the division of the bone-precursor cells in the ends of bones. Furthermore, they reduce the calcium supply to bone. Glucocorticoids block the uptake of dietary calcium in the intestines (uptake normally stimulated by vitamin D), increase the excretion of calcium by the kidney, and accelerate the resorption of bone. If you secrete excessive amounts of glucocorticoids, this increases the risk that your bones will eventually give you problems. (Location 1954)
Estrogen potently inhibits bone resorption, and as estrogen levels drop after menopause, the bones suddenly begin to degenerate. (Location 1965)
Love is needed for proper biological development, and its absence is among the most aching, distorting stressors that we can suffer. (Location 1977)
Kids don’t love their mothers because Mom balances their nutritive intake, these results suggested. They love them because, usually, Mom loves them back, or at least is someone soft to cling to. “Man cannot live by milk alone. Love is an emotion that does not need to be bottle- or spoon-fed,” wrote Harlow. (Location 2000)
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6 Dwarfism and the Importance of Mothers
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