Where can I buy oxytocin spray? A question I get asked more and more each day. The media has been full of articles and news stories recently, detailing the many amazing claims of doctors, academics and researchers over the myriad possibly miraculous benefits of oxytocin. The ‘cuddle hormone’ oxytocin, linked primarily with the ‘bonding’ emotions such [...]
The Times reports today that a passionate kiss releases a surge of oxytocin into the brain, making a lover feel happy, excited or relaxed. A study at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania found that kissing reduced the levels of cortisal (a stress hormone) in both the male and female participants, raised the levels of oxytocin in the [...]
Australian researchers reported this week that moms who breast-feed are nearly four times less likely to neglect their children, than those that don’t. Dr. Lane Strathearn, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, explains the role of Oxytocin in the process : “Oxytocin is a critical hormone produced during [...]
I thought it would be useful to summarise why Oxytocin is attracting so much scientific and media interest. Oxytocin is a hormone, and therefore, a naturally occurring substance produced by the human body. Women have this hormone in their systems to a greater level than men, and it has been found to increase during and after child birth, [...]
A study carried out by the University of Michigan found that caregivers tended to have increased life expectancy. What is interesting about this study is that the results have been interpreted as indicating that the physiological benefits associated with caregiving bring are responsible for the increase and that those physiological benefits are caused by an [...]
Oxytocin is appearing so often in the media of late, and getting everybody from scientists to entrepreneurs excited, is because of the power it might have to change both individuals and perhaps even society itself. An easily manufactured, in fact naturally produced, substance that has the potential to make anyone who comes into contact with [...]
Swedish and British scientists have shown using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that the hormone oxytocin can inhibit feelings of anxiety in specific individuals. Their discovery might lead to a better understanding and the improved treatment of psychiatric affections in which people feel distressed when meeting others, such as in cases of autism and social [...]
Oxytocin is a naturally occurring hormone produced by the body. Interest in it’s possible role in increasing empathy between people sprung from the recognition that women who have recently given birth have much higher levels of it in the bloodstream than other women do. For several years now, researchers have been investigating oxytocin as a [...]
