The neurohormone oxytocin is widely recognized for fostering social connections and producing pleasurable feelings, such as those associated with sex, exercise, or art. However, the hormone has a variety of other functions, such as the regulation of lactation and uterine contractions in females, and...
Oxytocin, also referred to as the “love hormone” is released during the attachment phase in correlation with physical touch and results in an increase in dopamine (the happy hormone). This is perhaps why the area of the brain which is associated with the feeling of reward and pleasure is ...
This “love hormone”, promotes feelings of contentment, calmness, and security. In layman’s terms, this means “settling in” to a relationship with your romantic partner. Over time, the “excitement” you felt about your partner seems to have diminishing returns. It has also long been deba...
Trans people,by definition(and in order to be diagnosed and prescribed the hormone drugs necessary to “transition” by a medical doctor) must have symptoms that meet this description: “strong, persistent feelings of identification with theoppositegender and discomfort with one’s own assigned sex ...
When it comes to opening up about one’s private life to a stranger, not everyone is ready for what is coming next. In many cases, hundreds of sexually disturbed couples end up getting a divorce rather than living another day with their legal spouse. Records imply a wide variety of reason...
Sex differences in the association of endogenous sex hormone levels and glucose tolerance status in older men and women Some evidence suggests an inverse association between type 2 diabetes and androgens in men and a positive association between type 2 diabetes and androgens... D, Goodman-Gruen,E...
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New research published today in The Journal of Physiology shows that oxytocin, known as the love hormone, plays an important role in stress' disruption of digestion such as bloating, discomfort, nausea, and diarrhea.
likely than females to besexual without commitmentdue to higher levels of testosterone and it has been shown that baseline levels of testosterone decrease in males during the early stages offalling in love.4Below is the chemical structure for testosterone, which is very similar to the hormone ...
The objective was to examine prospectively the association between low testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels and the subsequent development of type 2 diabetes in men.#Analyses were conducted on the cohort of the Mas... R Stellato,H Feldman,O Hamdy,... - 《Diabetes Care》...