Scientific investigation into the mystery of love might for some be analysing the rainbow to an uncomfortable extent, but for some researchers, the process of falling (and staying) in love, is as facinating and explorable as any other human phenomenon. Oregon scientist Larry Sherman has studied the neurological changes and hormone releases that love triggers (or should that be triggers love?) and, surprise surprise, he has found Oxytocin to be amongst the chief culprits! Primarily, it is beginning to appear that Oxytocin, ‘the love hormone’, gives us the urge to stay in love, to be committed to a particular partner.
“So could we make a love potion that makes you only monogamous, right?” asks Sherman.
Readers of this blog will be amongst the first to learn when it will be hitting the shelves..stay tuned Mrs Clinton!
Eric Hollander, a psychiatrist and expert on autism, is to give a talk on the latest research on the possible use of oxytocin in the treatment of autism. Hollander himself has recently led a team of researchers which found that oxytocin enhanced the ability to recognize emotions such as anger or happiness in the tone of a speaker’s voice. The talks will be held at the Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York on November the 12th.
The corallation between the reduction of feelings of stress and the raising of oxytocin in the blood stream is seemingly borne out in a new study almost every day. There can be little remaining doubt that oxytocin is the chemical instrument that the body uses when it wants and needs to ‘feel good’. From reduced stress, lowered blood pressure, decreased social inhibitions, the evidence relating these to increased oxytocin levels can no longer be ignored. Just imagine the power to transform lives oxytocin may give us when we can efficiently manufacture and transport it into the body ourselves whenever we want.
The following link is to a story concerning a new study showing that touching and physical contact decreases a range of stress related symptoms whilst simultaneously increasing levels of oxytocin.
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 it more trusting of other people. A possible transformative cure for children blighted with autism or adult suffering the mental torture of social phobia, perhaps even conditions such as schizophrenia. On the other hand, the potential for misuse of such a drug hardly needs to be spelled out. When you consider the lengths and costs that politicians and businesses go to make the voter or consumer ‘trust them’, then you can already hear them itching to get their hands on this stuff.
On a wider scale, if oxytocin does indeed live up to its present hype, it could perhaps generate social and cultural change on a scale even greater than that reputably triggered by the widespread use amongst young people of the original ‘love drugs’, such as acid and LSD, in the 60′s. A drug that could be used by a nefarious government to placate and manipulate a docile population or something truly transformative and liberating that could turn society into a lasting version of what the flower people could only dream about in the ‘summer of love’..
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 phobia. Read More…
It seems the scientific research is mounting now. At the very least, surely the government should be putting some serious money now into research programs specifically in terms of using Oxytocin as a treatment for these devastating psychiatric problems.
YouTube video giving a useful summary as to the Swiss research linking Oxytocin with increased trust and its marketing use as a buy online ‘liquid trust’ oxytocin spray.
Liquid Trust is an oxytocin spray designed to be worn like a perfume. In this way, not only will you gain confidence by breathing in the oxytocin, those you meet will inhale the spray too, something that, in theory, should lead them to be more trusting and positive towards you.
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 possible treatment for shyness, social anxiety, and possibly even other psychological handicaps or disorders such as autism or schizophrenia. Reports of such research now appear regularly in the newspapers and popular and online media, such as this report on Oxytocin featured in USA TODAY.
This blog will bring you the latest news on all the latest research of Oxytocin as a treatment for psychological problems. It will also provide news and links regarding the sale and manufacture of Oxytocin Nasal Sprays for the purpose of that treatment.
