Top 35 Giulia Enders Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Saliva is basically filtered blood.”

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2. “The world is a much more interesting place if we look beyond what is visible to the naked eye.”

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3. “While some of us might be sitting around thinking “Nobody cares about me!”, our heart is currently working its seventeen-thousandth twenty-four-hour shift – and would have every right to feel a little forgotten when its owner thinks such thoughts.”

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4. “Even the most conscientious of cleaners would not dream of taking a mop to the forest floor.”

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5. “Every day we live and every meal we eat we influence the great microbial organ inside us – for better or for worse.”

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6. “Sweetness is not in itself unhealthy, we simply eat only the most unhealthy kind of sweetness.”

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7. “Count Dracula. A genetic defect has been identified in his home country, Romania, that results in symptoms that include a lack of tolerance to garlic, sensitivity to sunlight, and the production of red urine.”

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8. “However, hidden power often lies in the most inconspicuous places – in this case, in the lymphatic system. Those tiny particles can enter the lymphatic system, embedded in fat droplets, and once there, they attract the attention of ever-vigilant immune cells. When they discover a tiny particle of peanut in the lymphatic fluid, for example, they naturally attack it as a foreign body.”

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9. “Looking closer at human beings, it becomes clear that each of us is a world of our own. Our forehead is a breezy meadow, our elbows are arid wastelands, our eyes are salty lakes, and our gut is the most amazing giant forest ever, populated by the weirdest of creatures.”

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10. “Almost nothing influences our gut bacteria as much as the food we eat. Preboiotics are the most powerful tool at our disposal if we want to support our good bacteria – that is, those that are already there and are there to stay.”

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11. “Anyone who suffers from anxiety or depression should remember that an unhappy gut can be the cause of an unhappy mind. Sometimes, the gut has a perfect right to be unhappy, if it is dealing with an undetected food intolerance, for example. We should not always blame depression on the brain or on our life circumstances – there is much more to us than that.”

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12. “So, what we label a food intolerance may in fact be nothing more than the reaction of a healthy body as it tries to adapt within a single generation to a food situation that was completely unknown during the millions of years of our evolution.”

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13. “By preferring cooked food, the body outsources the first part of the digestive process.”

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14. “More than 95 percent of the world’s bacteria are harmless to humans. Many are extremely beneficial. Disinfectants have no place in a normal household. They are appropriate only if a family member is sick or the dog poops on the carpet.”

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15. “The gut has not only a remarkable system of nerves to gather all this information, but also a huge surface area. That makes it the body’s largest sensory organ. Eyes, ears, nose, or the skin pale by comparison. The information they gather is received by the conscious mind and used to formulate a response to our environment. They can be seen as life’s parking sensors. The gut, by contrast, is a huge matrix, sensing our inner life and working on the subconscious mind.”

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16. “Silly stress at the office or exam-related anxiety become less threatening when we refuse to let them affect us so personally.”

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17. “So far, very few treatments have been scientifically proven to be effective. One of those is hypnotherapy. Really good psychotherapy is like physiotherapy for the nerves. It eases tensions, and teaches us how to move in a more healthy way – at the neural level. Because.”

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18. “Doctors believe that straining too much or too often on the toilet can also seriously increase the risk of varicose veins, a stroke, or defecation syncope – fainting on the toilet.”

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19. “I’m sometimes shocked by the way scientists huddle behind closed doors to discuss important research results without informing the public about them at all. Academic caution is often preferable to premature publication, but fear can also destroy opportunities.”

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20. “As it happens, the higher the hygiene standards in a country, the higher that nation’s incidence of allergies and autoimmune diseases. The more sterile a household is, the more its members will suffer from allergies and autoimmune diseases. Thirty years ago, about one person in ten had an allergy; today, that figure is one in three.”

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21. “Our stomach sits much higher in our abdomen than we think. It begins just below the left nipple and ends below the bottom of the ribcage on the right. Any pain felt farther down than this lopsided little pouch cannot be stomachache. Often, when people say they have stomach problems, the trouble is actually in the gut. The heart and the lungs sit on top of the stomach. This explains why we find it more difficult to breathe deeply after eating a lot.”

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22. “Sweeteners such as aspartame appear to be carcinogenic, while other substances used in typical ‘diet’ products are also used in factory farming to fatten pigs. So.”

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23. “Children born by caesarean section take months or even longer to develop a normal population of gut bacteria.”

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24. “Sugar is the only substance our body can turn into fat with little effort.”

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25. “The important thing is not to reduce the human body to a two-dimensional cause-and-effect machine. The brain, the rest of the body, bacteria, and the elements in our food all interact with each other in four dimensions. Striving to understand all these axes is surely the best way to improve our knowledge. However, we can more easily tinker with bacteria than with our brain or our genes-and that is what makes microbes so fascinating.”

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26. “It is now generally accepted in scientific circles that people with certain digestive problems often suffer from nervous disorders of the gut.”

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27. “Bathing as a way of keeping the body clean was a privilege of the rich even up to the beginning of the twentieth century.”

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28. “Laxatives based on PEGs contain only indigestible chains, and for that reason they can be taken over longer periods without causing problems. The latest studies show there is no risk of addiction or long-term damage. Some studies indicate that these substances can even improve the gut’s protective barrier.”

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29. “Preliminary studies carried out at Harvard and in New York have shown that the two antibiotics metronidazole and gentamicin cause particularly hefty changes in the flora of the gut.”

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30. “How can pain have become the hot sauce in the otherwise bland soup of her everyday life?”

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31. “Really valuable studies began about twenty years ago. For one experiment in 2011, 114 Canadians ate specially produced yogurt twice a day. The.”

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32. “So, here’s to folds!”

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33. “Faced with a choiced between two different dishes, we make a decision based on what we happen to fancy at that moment.”

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34. “The most common food intolerance in the Western hemisphere is trouble digesting the fruit sugar fructose, with about 40 percent of the population affected.”

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35. “The brain interprets the nerve impulses to form an image. It is not until that happens that we really see the piece of cake. This delicious news is then passed on to the systems that control salivation, with mouth-watering results. Similarly, the mere sight of a yummy treat also causes the stomach to produce some digestive juices in anticipation.”

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