What is the effect of oxytocin on love?
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Releasing oxytocin can make people's sex more romantic. Oh, it's not just a sexual feeling. A neuroscience study found that romantic love stimulates certain brain regions to release hormones called "posterior pituitary hormones" such as oxytocin.
1. What is oxytocin?
Oxytocin is a product that can stimulate uterine smooth muscle contraction and promote cervical dilatation. At the same time, the product can also be used for induced labor, induced labor, and uterine bleeding caused by uterine atony or poor contraction after postpartum and abortion. In addition, oxytocin can also be used in oxytocin provocation test to test placental reserve function, and it can promote milk ejection.
2.Why do neurologists refer to the love hormone as oxytocin?
It has been proven that falling in love corresponds to the release of key brain chemicals from certain regions of the brain. An expert believes that oxytocin (oxytocin) released deep in the brain from this almond sized multifunctional area is a special hormone that promotes connectivity. She said, "It is released into the pituitary gland during childbirth, breastfeeding, orgasm, and when cells in the hypothalamus embrace each other, and stored for future use
According to the American Psychological Association, hormone levels are often higher during stress and social bond experiences.
3. Oxytocin awakens from friendship to deep love for others, and then to sexual passion.
Research has shown that not all forms of love appear the same in the brain, and different types of love, such as romantic love, parental bonds, or friend to friend relationships, have different advantages.
Although all these feelings involve the same brain chemicals to some extent, they do not all come from the same neurons or nerve cells in the brain.A research team has found that romantic love comes from large cells or larger neurons in the hypothalamus, while other forms of love, such as feelings experienced towards you, come from single cells or smaller neurons.
According to a report in the Neuron Journal, their research reveals another reason why romantic love overwhelms your senses.
The PhD from the research team said that it's not just size that matters. Falling in love releases 60000 to 85000 oxytocin molecules in large cellular neurons. This is much more than smaller neurons that release 7000 to 10000 molecules.
When oxytocin leaves large cell neurons (romantic love oxytocin cells), it enters the bloodstream and circulating cerebrospinal fluid, which bathes the brain. Wherever it encounters cells with oxytocin receptors - adrenal glands, uterus, breasts, and brain - it binds to and activates these receptors. The receptor response varies by organ, but includes breastfeeding, inhibition of stress response, and feelings of love, including attachment and pleasure.
In a study published in the Journal of Physiological Review in 2001, rats were observed to spontaneously erect after injecting oxytocin into their cerebrospinal fluid. Men release brain chemicals, including oxytocin, during ejaculation.
What are the interesting relationship characteristics of oxytocin?
Oxytocin can help people concentrate, and when a man discovers a beautiful and warm lover or a woman discovers a handsome and reliable man, it can promote social attachment. A research team conducted brain scans and found that when people see photos, certain parts of the brain receive more oxygen - a proxy for blood flow and brain activity. After contact with the mother, the oxytocin levels of the biological child will increase. In the same situation, the levels of oxytocin in non biological adopted children remain static, indicating that there is a physiological basis for why some adopted children find it difficult to establish a strong kinship relationship with their adoptive mothers.
This does not mean that people can easily supplement oxytocin.
But we need to understand that blind oxytocin has significant harm,Routine use of this product will generally not cause harm, but if it is used in excess, it may cause uterine muscle rigidity, and even lead to fetal asphyxia, uterine rupture, blood pressure drop and so on. It is also possible that water retention and hyponatremia may occur due to antidiuretic effect. It is also found in neurology that this product also has paranoid side effects.
