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1Why Men and Women Handle Stress Differently 1 Citation We all have stories about how men and women experience stress differently.My friend, Barbara, is stressed out these days ? like so many of us. She works as a second-grade teacher in a school district that was supported by an auto industry tax base. The school-age population in her district is getting smaller and she's not sure how long she'll have her job.When Barbara's stress builds up she ends up crying hidden in the bathroom when get gets home. Then she talks frequently about how she feels wi, technorati.com
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1 Citation In India, oxytocin is commonly given to dairy cattle to increase their milk production. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have called for a ban on the practice.Scientists there have found that when humans consume milk from treated cows, they also take in excess oxytocin, which leads to menstrual and other problems.Does anyone know if the U.S. dairy industry also uses oxytocin?, technorati.com
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1 Citation A University of Michigan study has identified why visiting with a girlfriend does wonders for a woman?s mood. The likely reason: feeling emotionally close to a friend increases levels of the hormone progesterone, helping to boost well-being and reduce anxiety and stress. ?This study establishes progesterone as a likely part of the neuroendocrine basis of social bonding in humans,? said U-M researcher Stephanie Brown, lead author of an article reporting the study findings, published in the Ju, technorati.com
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Is Sexual Health the Key to Anti-aging Beauty? by Lorne Caplan 1 Citation By now, we?re all well aware that as we age, our hormone production drops off the face of a cliff. Our aspirations for long lasting anti-aging beauty follows the trend line of our hormones and we end our years fighting the age related diseases that the Western / pharmaceutical funded and associated entities tell us we?re all doomed to experience. Along with a drop in muscle mass, lean body tissue, stamina, a healthy cardiovascular system and not least, our performance in bed, our minds sta, technorati.com
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1 Citation Ezekiel in Madrid sent me a link to this song. Being tragically unhip, I was unaware of it.It's always fun to see the power of oxytocin penetrating the zeitgeist., technorati.com
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Love Potions Aren?t Just for Witches Anymore 1 Citation This article I wrote a little while ago for my school newspaper details a study by Larry Young about using oxytocin to induce love-like feelings in prairie voles. It?s possible that someday soon oxytocin compounds could be marketed to the public as scientific love potions. Oxytocin sprays are already being marketed as ? liquid trust ?, though I doubt they are effective. I spell out some possibly implications of creating an effective oxytocin compounds for humans in the article: Love potions, technorati.com
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1 Citation People always ask, "How can I get more oxytocin? How can I strengthen my oxytocin response?" Today, I got an email from someone who said he had taken a lot of MDMA (Ecstasy) in the past. He was now clean and very healthy, but feeling "autistic." He wondered whether it was safe to take oxytocin nasal sprays, and if there was anything he could do to generate oxytocin on his own. Here's what I answered:As you probably know, MDMA releases oxytocin. This effect is likely the cause of much of the plea, technorati.com
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1 Citation Humans and birds are the only animals who appreciate the Back Street Boys (that I?m aware of, and probably more so in birds than humans):Why is this? Although Mr. Timberlake may be extremely attractive to the avian crowd, this post is not limited to ?90s boy bands, but rather is about music, vasopressin and sex.Anyway.According to new research out of Finland, the land so obviously well known for it?s melodious population (??), genes associated with human bonding and affiliative behavior are asso, technorati.com
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5 things Social Defeat Does To Your Brain 1 Citation Say you?re the target of workplace bullying or your spouse verbal abuses you (which may be a mate retention strategy, here). What does that do to your brain?Five selected references, single line summary, (oversimplified and mostly in rodent models) and some editorial remarks:Increased phasic dopamine signaling in the mesolimbic pathway during social defeat in rats.Social defeat makes some of your striatal neurons have a hair trigger, indicating (to me) the propensity for overreaction.Adolescen, technorati.com
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Progesterone + Oxytocin Link in Female Bonding 1 Citation A study by Stephanie Brown at the University of Michigan found that women who performed "closeness tasks" with a partner had elevated levels of progesterone in their saliva. Furthermore, a week later, the women with more progesterone in their spit were more willing to make sacrifices for the partner. The study is "Social closeness increases salivary progesterone in humans."According to the LA Times Blog, the study used progesterone in the saliva as a marker for oxytocin in the brain. Other human, technorati.com
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