Gastric Quotes:

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

- Ivan Pavlov

topic: Nerves, Lasts, Pancreas, Physiology, Adrenal Glands

A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

topic: Cancer, Might, Way, Reorganization, Resemblance

The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

- Konrad Lorenz

topic: Business, Men, Blood, Ulcers, Gastric

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

- Mark Hyman, M.D.

topic: Medicine, Epidemics, Bypass, Diabetes, Gastric

When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.

- Clive James

source: Clive James (1991). “Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued)”, Isis Large Print Books

topic: Funny, Cutting, Shoes, Ballast, Airships

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

- Ivan Pavlov

topic: Powerful, Glands, Appetite, Adrenal Glands, Gastric

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.

- Ivan Pavlov

topic: Use, Acid, Reactions, Gastric

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

- Roseanne Barr

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: California, Bird, Bypass, Gastric

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

- Ivan Pavlov

topic: Swag, Eating, Reaching, Glands, Stimulation

The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.

- Karl Vogt

source: Kohlerglaube and Wissenschaft

topic: Brain, Juice, Kidneys, Gastric

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

- Richard Simmons

topic: Emotional, Who I Am, People, Jester, Court Jester

Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!

- Carnie Wilson

topic: Pregnancy, Perfect, Decision, Gastric

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

- John Steinbeck

source: "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck".

topic: Fighting, Men, Bulls, Ulcers, Jackals

so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many ***** and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...

- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

topic: Heart, Years, Lasts, Gastric

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.

- Pierre Jean George Cabanis

source: Traite du physique et du moral de l'homme, Second Memoir (1802)

topic: Fall, Brain, Juice, Gastric

I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me.

- Jim Carrey

topic: Gastric, Sex Change

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Doors, Breakfast, Tables, Gastric, Prospects

I wanted to lose weight when it was my time to lose weight, not because someone's calling me out for it. I've been called the Fat Kardashian Sister for the past ten years. But I could have gone and gotten gastric [bypass surgery] or done liposuction or whatever and I did not feel the need to do that, and I didn't think - I sincerely didn't think anything was "wrong with me."

- Khloe Kardashian

source: "From Porn to Working Out, Khloé Kardashian Thinks You Should Be 'Doing Things That Make You Happy'". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 4, 2016.

topic: Past, Thinking, Years, Gastric

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.116, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Heart, Action, Emotion, Gastric