Oxytocin "Social Viagra"
Falling in love is easily the most wonderful experience a couple of any age can experience. Philosophers believe that there is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
Unfortunately, over time, life's stresses and pressures can eclipse the cascade of oxytocin that makes young love sustainable. This often leads to emotional distance. The love bond has weakened, the negative spiral has begun, love is unraveling and the relationship is in peril of expiring altogether. Lovers who thought they would be together forever end up fighting, splitting up, or simmering in resentment and stagnation . . . If you want to remain in love, you need to sustain the production of oxytocin.
Trust, Empathy, Fear, Mindreading, Orgasm . . . why is oxytocin so powerful?
Both a hormone in the body and a neurotransmitter in the brain, researchers have firmly established oxytocin as on of the hormones that both energizes and makes us feel good about life by underpining social attachments and improving our ability to read other people's emotions. A team led by Gregor Domes at Rostock University administered oxytocin in 30 men prior to testing how well they could read the emotions conveyed by photographs of eyes taken in real-life situations. Twenty of them performed significantly better on the test after injesting the hormone (Biological Psychiatry, vol 61, p 731). Poker players beware!
Social phobia is the third most common psychiatric disorder after depression and alcoholism, affecting around one in 10 adults.
A Swiss study demonstrated that the power of oxytocin can even outweigh the effects of rumour, gossip and untrustworthiness. "Oxytocin has a very powerful effect," says Dr Baumgartner of the University of Zurich. Oxytocin lowers activity in the amygdala, a region linked with fear and danger. The same brain circuits play a role in social disorders. Most social phobia sufferers receive talk therapy of some kind but recent studies have shown that oxytocin can speed up the process. "We now know for the first time what exactly is going on in the brain when oxytocin increases trust. We found that oxytocin has a very specific effect in social situations. It seems to diminish our fears. Based on our results, we can now conclude that a lack of oxytocin is at least one of the causes for the fear experienced by social phobics." says Dr. Baumgartner.
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Oxytocin - 'The window to the soul'
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Oxytocin is an FDA controlled substance!
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Ingesting oxytocin in a pure form is not only illegal but it would be useless.
1. Oxytocin is destroyed by stomach acids.
2. Oxytocin has a three minute half-life in our blood stream.
The healthiest way to achieve optimal oxytocin levels is to urge the body and the mind to support its own oxytocin release.
Building trusting relationships is a process and is not something that takes place within a few moments in time or is limited to happening within a certain time period. It is quite possible that you may not even know it is happening until you experience that first smile or other unique cue, and respond appropriately.
Talking, touching, holding, singing, eye contact . . . in tandem wih sub-lingual homeopathic oxytocin invigorator can help support these behaviors.
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