Hormone Quotes

“Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?

A: You can't hear an enzyme.”
― Dorothy Parker

“High altitude exposures are a hormone disrupter in sea level adapted humans.”
― Steven Magee

“Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is consequential because frequent release of cortisol can lead to heart disease, diabetes, dementia, cancer, and depression.”
― Dan Harris, 10% Happier

“I said ‘Periods are God’s way of being mean to men’ and she replied ‘Periods are God’s way of giving women a break from men’.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 is killing the elderly that commonly have malnutrition issues and hormone deficiencies.”
― Steven Magee

“One of the strangest experiences I had in life was watching my professional astronomy girlfriend turn into a lesbian.”
― Steven Magee

“Hello high altitude astronomy, hello changing gender.”
― Steven Magee

“Hello high altitude astronomy, goodbye gender.”
― Steven Magee

“Astronomy workers changing gender? Yes, it is a well known occurrence from the effect of high altitude induced alterations of the human sex hormones.”
― Steven Magee

“There appeared to be an abnormally large number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people working in high altitude astronomy, which was consistent with high altitude induced sex hormone damage.”
― Steven Magee

“At the age of 49, it had emerged that I had immune system dysfunction that was arising out of hormone damage from working in high altitude astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“The medical profession is really bad in treating mental illness and chronic fatigue.”
― Steven Magee

“In 2019 I noticed a positive response after supplementing with 50 mg of DHEA daily. I have a history of high ultraviolet (UV) exposure from living in Hawaii, working at very high altitudes, and managing reflective industrial and utility solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants.”
― Steven Magee

“A strange skin tag grew on right side of my belly in my early forties. My doctors did not pay any attention to it and it was only years later that I discovered through experimentation with supplements that I had a DHEA hormone deficiency.”
― Steven Magee

“As I increased the levels of the sex hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) using supplements, I exhibited a major response to it at 75mg daily. My face felt like it was constantly blushing, even though it was not, and my mental functioning degraded at the same time. I continued to take DHEA and after a few weeks these effects subsided.”
― Steven Magee

“I call high altitude induced hormone damage ‘Mauna-Pause’ as Mauna means mountain in Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“You would not want to be in hormone deficiency during a COVID-19 infection.”
― Steven Magee

“My hormone deficiencies were causing fungal toenails, fungal skin infections, itchy skin, skin tags, and increased allergies.”
― Steven Magee

“I saw two different endocrinologists that declared I have normal hormone levels. As such, it was surprising when self treatment with hormones cleared up some of my health issues.”
― Steven Magee

“I started to get very itchy ankles in my late forties and they were so itchy that I would scratch them red raw. The itching miraculously disappeared after I started hormone supplementation.”
― Steven Magee

“Hormone disruption in high altitude workers is a dirty secret of professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“Massage. Numerous studies have examined the effects of massage on everyone from babies and new mothers to breast-cancer survivors and people who suffer from migraines. The results are fairly clear that massage boosts your serotonin by as much as 30 percent. Massage also decreases stress hormones and raises dopamine levels, which helps you create new good habits.”
― Alex Korb, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

“Taking DHEA caused a mental awakening in me.”
― Steven Magee

“You need to be careful about being overweight as a man, as excessive fat produces the female hormone estrogen.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Love, sex, and eroticism, with their hormone rush and idealized images, on the one hand, and deep frustrations, on the other, have been variably perceived as either a major source of transcedence or the nadir of the profane.”
― Azar Gat, Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

“Estrogen appears to be protective against the damaging effects of COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“COVID-19 is known to depress testosterone levels in males.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“Hormone dysfunction is a feature of Long COVID.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“Long COVID is associated with lowered testosterone levels.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“The testosterone doctor told me I had good testosterone because I had a hairy chest!”
― Steven Magee