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We have found that people who release more oxytocin are happier.
Here's one more secret for you: Shaking someone's hand for six seconds dramatically raises the level of oxytocin in your bloodstream, now that's the trust hormone.
No, it's a hormone called oxytocin.
So, Dr. Love bases his argument on studies showing that when you boost people's oxytocin, this increases their trust, empathy and cooperation.
Other studies have shown that boosting oxytocin increases envy.
And in some cases, oxytocin can even decrease cooperation.
So based on these studies, I could say oxytocin is an immoral molecule, and call myself Dr. Strangelove.
To understand this side of stress, we need to talk about a hormone, oxytocin, and I know oxytocin has already gotten as much hype as a hormone can get.
But this is a very small part of what oxytocin is involved in.
Some people have even suggested we should snort oxytocin... to become more compassionate and caring.
But here's what most people don't understand about oxytocin.
And when oxytocin is released in the stress response, it is motivating you to seek support.
Well, oxytocin doesn't only act on your brain.
Your heart has receptors for this hormone, and oxytocin helps heart cells regenerate and heal from any stress-induced damage.
And the cool thing is that all of these physical benefits of oxytocin are enhanced by social contact and social support.
And speaking of physical connection, you guys know I love the hormone oxytocin, you release oxytocin, you feel bonded to everyone in the room.
You guys know that the best way to release oxytocin quickly is to hold someone else's hand for at least six seconds.
In fact, some interesting studies have pointed to oxytocin levels, which are a kind of bonding hormone that we release when we're having sex or nursing or around someone that we care for extremely, oxytocin levels raising in both humans and dogs who care about each other or who enjoy each other's company, and beyond that, other studies show that oxytocin raised even in other pairs of animals, so, say, in goats and dogs who were friends and played with each other, their levels spiked afterwards.
But veterinarians have devised an intervention to deal with this foal rejection syndrome that involves increasing oxytocin in the mare.
So evolution has helped us out with this hormone called oxytocin.
Testosterone in men diminishes the effects of oxytocin.
So the mirror neurons never fire, the oxytocin never goes through your body, you never have that experience of bonding with the other human being.
So simply making eye contact with somebody, shaking hands, giving somebody a high-five is enough to release oxytocin, which increases your level of trust and it lowers your cortisol levels.
Scientists have found that music causes our brains to release a natural painkiller known as oxytocin and a feel-good chemical, dopamine.
Not only can canines understand our emotions and body language, but when dogs and humans interact, both our bodies release oxytocin; a hormone commonly associated with feelings of love and protectiveness.
The pleasure system, as you see, which is the internal opiates, there is a hormone oxytocin, is widely spread throughout the brain.
As I held him in my arms, shaking and sobbing from the rush of oxytocin that flooded my body, my mother was already preparing to feed me.
For example, in 2011, psychologists at the University of Amsterdam who study Dutch attitudes toward Arab and German minorities discovered that the hormone oxytocin – which has been connected to feelings of trust and cooperation – can actually increase racial bias and xenophobia.
The authors said the findings “call into question the view of oxytocin as an indiscriminate ‘love drug’ or ‘cuddle chemical,’” and raise new questions about how humans might manage “intergroup conflict and violence.”
According to the World Health Organization, many mothers’ lives could be saved simply by injecting oxytocin to stop bleeding, using sterile delivery tools, and delaying pregnancy until adulthood.
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