Knowing one's blood pressure is a crucial measurement for determining how much salt and fluid intake is appropriate for an individual's health.

“Everyone should know their blood pressure is an absolutely crucial measurement that has a lot of impact on your immediate and long-term health outcomes. It informs a lot about what you should do. Should you be doing more cardiovascular exercise? Should you be ingesting more or less salt?”

Humans are essentially machines that operate under predictable rules where fatigue is a measurable disruption that must be systematically managed.

“Humans are just machines that are designed by evolution instead of willful conscious agents as far as we can tell. And human machinery is real deep structurally because it goes all the way down to the nanotech level.”

The long-term use of oral contraceptives during adolescence can cause irreversible developmental changes to the amygdala that potentially increase anxiety and fear.

“They had two groups we had 14 to 16 year olds and we had 20 to 22 year olds they put on OC's and followed for two years and they saw that there was uh not as a robust development of the amydala in either group and when the 14 to 16 year olds tapered off there were no changes”

The horse's spleen naturally enhances performance by releasing red blood cells into the bloodstream during exercise.

“the horse is really stinking cool he blood dopes himself every time he starts exercising they have a large spleen”

The clitoris is the primary site for most women to experience orgasm, and focusing on penetrative sex often results in sexual frustration.

“Women think that orgasm comes from penetration. But the clitoris is how most women orgasm.”

Maintaining good posture is primarily a matter of physics rather than muscular effort, and it is best achieved by elevating the hips so they remain above the knees.

“basically what happens is if you sit if you elevate your hips and your hips are higher than your knees your back will naturally be straight”

Physiological connections exist between a mother and child that fade over time, but these connections do not define an individual's permanent existence.

“This is child's way of trapping the mother that after birth she shouldn't throw it away and go somewhere if she does this here it must everything must pull every organ in the body pulls”

Mindsets influence physiology by causing the body to prioritize and prepare for different functions based on core assumptions.

“those mindsets, whether or not they're true or false, right or wrong, they have an impact, and they have an impact not just through the motivational mechanisms that Dweck and others have studied, but as our lab has started to reveal, they also shape physiological mechanisms by changing what our bodi”