Ocytocin, Super Hormone

Posted by doularama | Filed under News, Recommendations

Just last night, my husband and I were talking about that incomprable feeling one gets around newborns and I told him it was largely hormonal, referring to oxytocin.  Oxytocin is my favorite hormone, and reading in The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness that an oxytocin nasal spray was used on test subjects makes me picture oxytocin police spraying people on the streets who obviously need a boost (and it would be obvious).  Oxytocin plays many roles in the lives of humans.  It helps get the baby out by causing contractions and then it ensures that we will care for that baby by making us feel an overwhelming love for it.  Of course, in our capital-loving society, here we see research being done on it’s possible effects on the world of finance.  Is it too much to hope that Wall Street will become a little more loving because of this?

Permalink | November 26th, 2009

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