Love molecule
"Baby, you make my NGF level spike..."
Interesting article here. Text:
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Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year
Tue Nov 29,12:34 PM ET
ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.
The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.
The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships.
But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level as that of the other groups.
The Italian researchers, publishing their study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, said it was not clear how falling in love triggers higher levels of NGF, but the molecule clearly has an important role in the "social chemistry" between people at the start of a relationship.
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Keeping in mind the super-small sample size of the study, there are some interesting comments, questions, and implications here:
- How long before a company comes out with an NGF level detector? Future DTR talks can involve the two people giving each other blood tests. "Sorry, I think you're really great, but the chemistry really (literally!) isn't there. I need at least a '100' level response to consider dating you." Eharmony would be all over this.
- How long before a company comes out with an aphrodisiac/perfume/cologne/drug with NGF supplement? "'He's just not that into you?' Well, help him along with this special love powder! One spoonful into his coffee..."
- On a more serious note, perhaps this study suggests that people in a relationship ought to give it at least a year to see if there is a more substantial love and commitment as the foundation after the feelings (and NGF molecules) fade away.
Interesting article here. Text:
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Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year
Tue Nov 29,12:34 PM ET
ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.
The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.
The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships.
But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level as that of the other groups.
The Italian researchers, publishing their study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, said it was not clear how falling in love triggers higher levels of NGF, but the molecule clearly has an important role in the "social chemistry" between people at the start of a relationship.
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Keeping in mind the super-small sample size of the study, there are some interesting comments, questions, and implications here:
- How long before a company comes out with an NGF level detector? Future DTR talks can involve the two people giving each other blood tests. "Sorry, I think you're really great, but the chemistry really (literally!) isn't there. I need at least a '100' level response to consider dating you." Eharmony would be all over this.
- How long before a company comes out with an aphrodisiac/perfume/cologne/drug with NGF supplement? "'He's just not that into you?' Well, help him along with this special love powder! One spoonful into his coffee..."
- On a more serious note, perhaps this study suggests that people in a relationship ought to give it at least a year to see if there is a more substantial love and commitment as the foundation after the feelings (and NGF molecules) fade away.
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