Carbon Dioxide is the chief hormone of the entire body; it is the only one that is produced by every tissue and that probably acts on every organ. - Yandel Henderson

.. breathing in different patterns really can influence our body weight and overall health.

While we were waiting for the shower, our nakedness was brought home to us; we really had nothing now except our bare bodies -….-, all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

Don‘t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

“When I am cooking I think of nothing else. It is as if all the troubles in the world are shut out and it is just me and the food.”

Money that improves schooling is always well spent, of course. But perhaps it would be better spent long before anyone reaches school age - before birth, when his brain and body are still forming.

“The cumulative advantages of a healthy prenatal environment and a stimulating postnatal environment is enormous.” But just how, how much intelligence is affected by prenatal conditions is hotly contested, as is almost every assertion in the field of intelligence research.

But there‘s something else going on here, too: the rise of an invincible icon I think of as the Pregnant Superwoman. This imaginary superhero never needs to sit down and take the weight of her feet, or catch her breath at the top of the stairs. She runs a marathon in her third trimester and works twelve hour days until her water breaks. ... and she has become the unattainable standard against which women measure themselves during pregnancy.

Today, attitudes have undergone an almost complete reversal. The notion that women should restrict their activities during pregnancy is regarded as old-fashioned at best, and patronizing at worst. How well a women handles pregnancy not on how gracefully she submits to a new regimen of rest, but on how determinedly she adheres to her prepregnancy schedule.

Like Sandman a number of scientists have found that severe stress is related with a higher risk of early delivery, or having a baby of low birth weight.

In the words of the commentator, the children of the holocuat victims bore “the scar without the wound.” Yehuda too subscribed to this notion. “I was really convinced that the early experiences of the child, being bombarded by the years of psychiatric symptoms of the parents, accounted for the transgenerational effect we observed.”

“I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting,” he explained, “I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.”