NaturalPedia > Anatomy > Gland

Quotes about Gland from the world's top natural health / natural living authors

 Email this page to a friend   |  Click here for FREE email alerts

page 1 of 26 | Next ->

"The endocrine system is primarily the hypothalamus, which is the brain's brain. The gland in your brain that controls just about everything, including aging, is not even the size of your pinky fingernail. It sends a whole bunch of hormones—called 'releasing hormones' or 'factors'—down to the pituitary gland, which is the master gland of the brain. This orchestrates secretions from all the glands in your body—the thyroid, the adrenal, the gonads (the testicles or ovaries)." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"This is done in at least two ways: (1) by the brain's information center, which monitors the state of the body, and (2) self-regulation as each gland detects chemical levels in the blood, giving "feedback" on the needs of the body. Glands may react by secreting one hormone to shut down the production or effects of another. Glands have the power to produce several different kinds of hormones at any time. The liver also has the power to control an overabundance of some hormones in the blood. Endocrine glands include the gonads, pineal, pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus and adrenals." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"THE VEHICLE OF SPIRIT IN THE BODY The body makes what is known as the "spirit molecule," which is believed to be produced by the pineal gland (from pinus because it looks like a pinecone), the gland that is responsible for the management of light in our bodies. N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is the only endogenous (produced in the body) chemical that has been found to have psychoactive properties. According to Rick Strassman, M.D., "the pineal gland produces psychedelic amounts of DMT at extraordinary times in our lives," such as birth, death, and orgasm." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"The hypothalamus gland controls much of the work of the pituitary gland - the master gland or conductor of the body's hormonal orchestra. When the hypothalamus perceives the markers of inflammation, it responds by producing anti-inflammatory hormones. These hormones are produced by your adrenal glands, which sit on your kidneys. The major hormone produced is Cortisol. In this way, the inflammatory discomfort in your intestines stimulates a gland in your brain to send a message to the adrenals to produce more stress hormones." - Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes, Food Intolerance Bible (Get the book.)

"It sends a whole bunch of hormones—called 'releasing hormones' or 'factors'—down to the pituitary gland, which is the master gland of the brain. This orchestrates secretions from all the glands in your body—the thyroid, the adrenal, the gonads (the testicles or ovaries). When you are young, it's responsible for growth and development, and as we get older, it's responsible for reproductive functions, and then, after a certain age, these hormones decline." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "It is a very small area, called the master gland, in the brain that controls four major functions: different glands; temperature regulation (if you have this disease, your temperature is almost never up to 98.6, it's usually 97); sleep; and blood pressure, pulse and blood flow. You usually find low blood pressure with this disease, which is why your spouse jumps to the other end of the bed when you put your cold feet on them. These all stem from the hypothalamus. "The glands are critical." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Commercially available adrenal extracts are made using the whole gland (whole or total adrenal exttacts) or just the cortex or outer portion of the gland (adrenal cortex extracts). The adrenal glands are a pair of small glands that lie just above the kidneys. The possible benefits of adrenal extract are thought to be the result of a combination of supplying small amounts of adrenal hormones and promoting improved adrenal function." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"It is now understood that the pineal gland governs parts of the hypothalamus, making the pineal gland another master gland. On a diet of processed food, the pineal gland calcifies and hardens. The brain becomes dense and obstructed with waste matter which would have distorted the cosmic receiver and blocked out the cosmic life energies. A diet of alkaline-plant food dissolves these obstructions and deposits, freeing the flow of energy. Thus we see that the cleaner your body, the greater your latent powers of mind." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"The pineal gland, a small pea-sized gland at the base of the brain, has been a source of curiosity since antiquity. The ancient Greeks considered the pineal gland as the seat of the soul, a concept that was extended by the philosopher Descartes. In the 17th and 18th centuries, physicians associated "madness" with the pineal gland. Physicians in the early 1900s believed the pineal gland was somehow involved with the endocrine system. The identification of melatonin in 1958 provided the first solid scientific evidence of an essential role for the pineal gland." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 (Get the book.)

"A small gland situated above the pituitary gland that makes and secretes hormones to signal the pituitary to release hormones and other factors. It is a switching station that translates instructions from the brain, carried by neurochemical signals, into hormonal signals that travel through the bloodstream and direct biological imperatives such as sex, hunger, sleep, and aggression. See also pituitary gland. insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1)." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Pituitary gland A small gland the size of a peanut that is located behind the eyes at the base of the brain, the pituitary gland is often called the "master" gland. It secretes hormones that control other glands (thyroid, adrenal, testicles, and ovaries) as well as growth. It secretes thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which helps control thyroid function. The pituitary gland also secretes human growth hormone (HGH). Best: asparagus, beets, broccoli, cabbage, kelp. Good: carrots, legumes, lettuce, onions, parsnips, radishes, sea vegetables, soybeans, sprouts, spinach, tomatoes, watercress." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Dietary Wellness: Using Foods to Heal (Get the book.)

"This is great for an infant, but continue to consume IGF as you age and certain cells are continuously stimulated to grow—namely, breast gland cells, prostate gland cells, colon cells, skin cells, and cells lining your blood vessels and joints. Is it any wonder that milk consumption in adulthood is correlated with increased rates of breast, prostate, and colon cancer? Increased incidence of atherosclerosis is another association: Remember those breast-fed infants with plaques? That's right, milk." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"CHAP IhH UUNIbNIb Introduction 327 What is a gland? 327 Glandular therapy Michael T. Murray, ND Joseph E. Pizzorno Jr, ND Scientific validation of glandular therapy 327 Methods of manufacture of glandular preparations 328 Evidence for intact protein absorption 328 Clinical applications 329 Adrenal extracts 329 Aortic glycosaminoglycans 330 Liver extracts 330 Pancreatic extracts 330 Spleen extracts 331 Thymus extracts 332 Thyroid extracts 333 Summary 333 INTRODUCTION For almost as long as historic records have been kept, glandular therapy has been an important form of medicine." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 (Get the book.)

"This is why this tiny gland is often called the "master gland". But what controls the pituitary gland? If we examine the brain, with the pituitary gland still attached, we see that the pituitary is connected to a wedge shaped piece of brain called the hypothalamus. This tiny piece of brain, despite its size, is immensely important. It controls hormone releasing factors that travel only a few centimeters to the pituitary gland, where they stimulate the pituitary to release its hormones. By a clever system of feedback controls, the hypothalamus regulates the hormone balance in the body." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Get the book.)

"PTH comes from the parathyroid gland, which is different from the thyroid gland. PTH regulates calcium and phosphorus metabolism. When calcium or vitamin D levels fall or when phosphorus levels rise, PTH levels rise, too. Rising phosphorus levels are typically associated with falling calcium levels. These two findings most commonly accompany kidney failure. If you are unsure about your kidney function, have that checked, too. Phosphorus comes primarily from protein sources; that protein can come from your diet or your bones and muscles." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"The aging male prostate enlarges, mainly reflecting the disordered growth of the glandular tissue, which creates multiple benign nodules that may impinge on the urethra as it passes through the gland. This "benign prostatic hypertrophy" (bph) is a normal part of the aging process and is the cause of prostatism. Prostatism is the name given to the various symptoms engendered by the prostate's enlargement: increased urinary frequency, decreased forcefulness of the urinary stream, and dribbling. Radical prostatectomy, by removing the impinging nodules, decreases the likelihood of prostatism." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The pineal body or gland, produces a hormone called melatonin. This hormone not only affects the brain but also other glands such as the pituitary, adrenals, ovaries, and testes. When melatonin is given, it induces sleep and will actually change the wave pattern on the Visual light stimulates the pineal gland to secrete melatonin. electroencephalogram. It also seems to have control of various glandular functions: for example, it can stop the ovaries from ovulating (5), and can delay sexual maturity(6). Notice the two-way arrows between the adrenal glands and melatonin (page 218)." - Zane R. Kime, Sunlight (Get the book.)

"Melatonin is produced by the pineal gland, a gland in the brain that helps regulate circadian rhythm. It's actually made along the same metabolic assembly line as serotonin. Both start out as the amino acid tryptophan, which then gets converted into 5-HTP and then to serotonin. Two more steps along the pathway and you've got melatonin. Natural Prescription for Jet Lag Melatonin: 3-6 mg at bedtime Note: The above dosages are daily dosages and in pill or capsule form, unless otherwise noted. Melatonin is stimulated by darkness and turned off by light." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"If the level of cortisone gets too low, the pituitary gland (a gland found near the brain) is stimulated to produce a substance called ACTH. ACTH flows into the blood stream and upon reaching the adrenal gland, stimulates the gland to produce more cortisone. When cortisone is taken by mouth, the blood level of cortisone increases, and by specific feedback mechanisms the adrenal production of cortisone is stopped. If cortisone is taken over a long period of time, the adrenal gland will actually shrink in size from lack of stimulation." - Zane R. Kime, Sunlight (Get the book.)

"Melatonin Melatonin is a natural hormone made in the pineal gland, a pea-sized gland located in the brain. Since its first discovery in 1958, melatonin has been studied extensively and has been shown to be widely beneficial to the body. As with all of the other hormones we're discussing, melatonin levels decline significantly as we age. An interesting note on melatonin. The trigger for production of melatonin is darkness—total darkness.' Any light in the room will inhibit production of your body's melatonin." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"To isolate one hormone (estrogen) out of dozens and one gland (the ovaries) out of several is ridiculous and dangerous. No one gland or hormone works on its own. The endocrine system is like a large orchestra, conducted by the pituitary gland; if one member of the orchestra is not present or not doing its job the whole company suffers. The usual approach is to encourage women to take Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in the form of estrogen. I have personally dealt with many women who have developed breast cancer after being on HRT, which resulted in radical mastectomies." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"In NES therapy, because practitioners don't deal with a damaged organ or gland directly but instead work with the information of the body-field, this might mean working with the larger body cavity in which the organ or gland is located. So, for example, if thete is a problem with kidney function, one option for addressing the problem is to suppott the abdominal cavity, which stores the life-force energy for that area of the body." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The theory is that eating a certain gland from an animal will somehow affect the corresponding gland in a human being. For example, ingesting dehydrated brains is supposed to calm a person down, and eating Glandular products simply don't work. pituitary glands supposedly will help a person grow taller. But in most cases the theory makes no scientific sense. According to a researcher at Stanford University, "Most of the factors in the glands, especially if they are proteins, are either destroyed in the manufacturing process or digested by the stomach acids when orally ingested." - Prevention Magazine Editors, The Complete Book of Vitamins & Minerals for Health (Get the book.)

"After midlife, the normal prostate grows in a disorganized fashion so that the gland is riddled with nodules of glandular tissue. It normally grows large and lumpy. Furthermore, the lumps that are benign are exceedingly difficult to distinguish by palpation from a malignant lump in their midst. Hence, the time-honored tradition of the "digital rectal exam" to palpate the prostate for cancer turns out to be as nonspecific and insensitive as it is unpleasant and indelicate. 2." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In addition, other glands affected are the thyroid, the pituitary (master gland in the cranium, attached to the base of the brain), and perhaps other glands and organs. Carrot juice has been recommended for relief of peptic ulcers. The juice, taken in ample quantities, is also reported to prevent bodily infections, and is said to be valuable for the adrenal glands (the small glands situated above each kidney). Dr. N.W. Walker has reported that this juice will prevent infections of the eyes, throat, tonsils, the sinus area, and the lungs and lung passages." - Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D., Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts and Seeds for Healthful Living (Get the book.) "Iodine is a gland regulator, especially of the thyroid gland. Iodine protects the brain from certain body toxins and prevents simple goiter or swelling of the thyroid gland. Result of deficiency. A deficiency of iodine may cause various gland troubles, especially the thyroid gland, and cause simple goiter or other toxic conditions. Availability. Iodine is found in fish, dulse, various forms of sea vegetation, and in small quantities in grapes, cranberries, oranges, mushrooms, cabbage, celery, carrots, cucumbers and lettuce." - Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D., Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts and Seeds for Healthful Living (Get the book.)

"THE MASTER gland AND ITS CONTROL The pituitary gland has been called the master gland, because it is the central control center for most of the endocrine glands located throughout the body. (FIG 1-5) This tiny gland, no bigger than the tip of your little finger, sits at the bottom of the brain, encased in a bony pocket above the nose." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Get the book.) "This is why this tiny gland is often called the "master gland". But what controls the pituitary gland? If we examine the brain, with the pituitary gland still attached, we see that the pituitary is connected to a wedge shaped piece of brain called the hypothalamus. This tiny piece of brain, despite its size, is immensely important. It controls hormone releasing factors that travel only a few centimeters to the pituitary gland, where they stimulate the pituitary to release its hormones. By a clever system of feedback controls, the hypothalamus regulates the hormone balance in the body." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Get the book.)

page 1 of 26 | Next ->

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.