Archive for March, 2009

Hugging for Oxytocin and Heart Health!

According to researchers, spending just 20 seconds a day hugging your partner will be enough to increase the level of oxytocin in your body and help improve the health of your heart!  The psychologist Dr. Karen Grewen claims that..
“greater partner support is linked to higher Oxytocin levels for both men and women. However, the importance [...]

Study hopes to find if oxytocin plays a role in autism

An oxytocin study being carried out at the Stanford University School of Medicine hopes to discover what role, if any, the hormone plays in causing autism.  The importance of oxytocin in forming social bonds is now widely documented.  At this stage, the inference that the ‘trust hormone’ might be lacking or in some way not working effectively [...]


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