Take a virgin sheep. Put her in a herd. She is only interested in her. You inject her with an oxytocin syringe, so she keeps rounding the lambs together to protect them. This miracle is due to a hormone, oxytocin, which brain specialists also call the attachment hormone.
Oxytocin is especially secreted at the time of childbirth, in particular by the fetus, which, by this mechanism, warns that it wishes to go out: it is the child who triggers the birth, and not a sort of calendar effect or a standard duration. Secretion continues throughout breastfeeding. We could deduce from this that the woman is attached “chemically” to her baby, unlike the father who does not have the same secretion capacities, thus explaining the differences between the “biological” motivation of the two parents.
A flawed excuse.
because the man has his own production of oxytocin, certainly less important than the woman, but sufficient to understand the phenomenon of the exceptional duration of certain couples. Do not look for the secret of the oak wedding (80 years of marriage) elsewhere than in the regular production of this hormone, which is not the result of any sexual stimulation, but of the tenderness of the caresses. Oxytocin and dopamine, the chemical messengers of desire for sex, money and power, are the two stars of our brain. But surprising hormones, there are many others, such as endorphins, substances very similar to morphine which reduce the pain of athletes when activity exceeds 60 minutes, or that which supplies the brain with cannabis … Man is a veritable clandestine laboratory activated by the reward circuit. The pleasurable or unpleasant effects of love are controlled by hormones almost all produced by a gland, the hypothalamus, known as the “cave of pleasures”.
Knowledge of our internal chemistry is advancing by leaps and bounds,
The revolution is due to MRI, which allows direct monitoring of the areas of the brain that are activated. The game of seduction, desire, jealousy, kissing, love at first sight, even orgasm, have their precise biochemical explanation, resulting from the secretion of our 100 billion neurons. Neurotransmitters that deliver messages to receptors, the real keys to pleasure, distributed over the entire surface of our brain. It remains now, at the risk of playing the sorcerer’s apprentice, to help nature a little, by correcting the unsatisfactory dosages of the three stages described by chemistry: the successful encounter, the passion and the lasting attachment. Twenty years of research full of figures, dosages and verifications in animals that seriously kick in the anthill of psychiatric hypotheses, sometimes smoky and often unverified.
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