Oxytocin (aka the Love Hormone) is supposed to make you feel all warm and cuddly. But according to new research, it’s also to blame for much deeper and darker feelings. Laci explains this two-faced beast.
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The Love Hormone is Two-Faced
“It turns out the love hormone oxytocin is two-faced. Oxytocin has long been known as the warm, fuzzy hormone that promotes feelings of love, social bonding and well-being. It’s even being tested as an anti-anxiety drug. But new Northwestern Medicine® research shows oxytocin also can cause emotional pain, an entirely new, darker identity for the hormone.”
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47 comments
she dressed so slutty this video
I think bonding needs extreme emotions so you dont forget that easy the moment but if you did it wrong ouch … selfsteem to the ground … personally i tried my best and if they like it good if they dont well i keep trying with others period… cold with cold warm with warm …
is that where love anxiety comes from
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! This explains why I get anxiety when I'm in a relationship! I'd always thought of it as 'having more to lose'. Goddamit
This new drug is interesting, if you were to meet someone for the first time and have a nice conversation. Let's say over sometime you two grow close and things become intimate; could you give that someone the hormone before you have sex and make them fall in love with you? Or at least have a better chance of it happening? Weird, but maybe.
This explains alot for everyone here…
It is not a new drug… it is a stimuli that your brain produces when we hug… watch the video again 0:15
The solution to this trouble with the release or supplement of Oxytocin, I believe is sounding cliche but is simple and apply to everything really: "balance"… not to little and to much.
we're not mice :D
Explains why I have a chronic fear of answering questions in class… in grade 2 I made a grammatical mistake on the chalkboard in front of the class and everyone laughed!! Stupid Oxytocin !
Sexy perhaps but slutty?
ugly faces every time i pause
It'll be cool if you could take little pieces of emotions out of your brain.
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I haven't been hugged in 15 years… Must be why I'm sooooo chill! Aw yeeeaahh! ;)
i guess ur hand was busy while typing this..u forgot "in" in ur sentence
does that mean if one orgasms 4 times a day in 6 hours to 6 hours one will fear all ones life and feel anxiety all ones life?
i understand the whole anxiety meds part. i am on a medication that is supposed to make me less anxious and jumpy, but when we were in seattle at pike market (sp?) i literally had trouble breathing. there were so many people and im normally not too claustrophobic around big crowds.
Are you Amish or something? Or are you jelly that laci is hotter than your girl?
Keep in mind that those mice had EXTRA oxytocin receptors, so MORE than the normal amount present.
Don't be a pig. Seriously have a little respect.
you have low standards if you think laci is hot
bro, just look at her, she is overweight and her face looks disgusting
First off, she has curves. Your little 13 year old brain can't comprehend actual beauty, but fake, media inserted beauty. While she isn't the most beautiful woman in the world, she most definitely doesn't have a disgusting face, and isn't overweight. My girlfriend said she would go straight lezbo for Laci. Good luck with your future plastic anorexic girlfriends, if you can even get one with the extreme shallowness resonating from your ugly ass face.
i dont see any curves, bro. all i see is a disgusting blob of fat.
Whatever, like I said, you are blind.
Maybe bc the mice who had the less oxytocin cared less which in turn gave them less anxiety. The ones who had more oxytocin had more of an emotional association with that anxiety situation so it amplified the effects.
She's a hottie!
I love her
anti depressants make ppl not be able to have normal levels of this hormone.
 so in the long run. Anti depressants actually make you more depressed… thats why you see kids on these prescription drugs doing insane things
Because she is hot
heheh, that girls always ha a funny look on her face 90% of the time, when you pause the video. I bet people capture alot of bad photo' of her.
It's survival. The mice with oxytocin would be more likely to survive the other aggressive mice. But maybe more stress on there bodies in other ways.
That's not true. Fear is caused mostly by Cortisol.
Oxytocin receptors = oxytocin? Feeling oxytocin more often should have the same effect as having fewer receptors, right? Also are mice as good at regulating their fear response as humans? Was it irrational for the mice to be afraid anyway?
you're cute
no Laci green
My negative experience was almost 4 months ago and I'm still not feeling normal
Seriously? I want to see that study. Link please.
You seem to think that people should tolerate aggressive bullies. Oxytocin or not it's never a bad idea to keep aggression out of your life, in less you are actively defending it. Here's a experiment, take the aggressive mice give them a free More oxytocin receptors, see if this relieves all the mice from the cortisol effects that are unhealthy for living happy, or violent aggressive mice.
Sounds like the mice without the oxytocin were so retarded they forgot the traumatic experience that just occurred.
I love my boyfriend so much. every week I see him. but when it time for me to go home. I get that feel I don't wanna leave. I feel scared leaving him. I love him so much. yes I have very bad anxiety problems. I get panic attack often. I don't like being alone. my fear is that someone leave me. and am having that right now.
I want to try it to help stop my addiction to smoking sigarets were can i get it in Australia
Laci Green? Discovery Channel needs to get a less controversial host. https://medium.com/the-establishment/the-sad-case-of-laci-green-feminist-hero-turned-anti-feminist-defender-322515344297
Is it the quantity of it?
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This has Never happened to me! Been taking for couple years and never felt anniety but the opposite, it took my anniety away and made me feel a ok!