Personally, I'm wondering about my (mild but unplanned) weightloss in combination with my depression lifting. And now those hypos every time I spend the night sharing a snug bed with a friend.Fascinating, from the article
More recently, small scale studies demonstrated that intranasal administration of oxytocin was associated with significant weight loss as well as improvements in insulin sensitivity and pancreatic β‐cell responsivity in human subjects.
Not sure if there aren't plenty of those already. The trouble is they are illegal (usually with good reason) and I doubt any studies have been done on their effects on metabolism...Even better if eventually there can be a happiness drug
It's times like this that I really miss @Oldvatr who could be relied upon to digest the densest report.I will follow this with my geeky science head on. A lot of variables have just fallen into place.
I almost tagged him when posting this thread before that pang of a lost member hit me.It's times like this that I really miss @Oldvatr who could be relied upon to digest the densest report.
Certainly a very comprehensive report with loads of references.
I have a friend in the USA and he is a manager of one of those specialist shops, he is always so chilled and super happy and cannot understand why the UK has no specialist shops! I explained that the specialist shops tend to be on the streets or in the potting shed at the weekends after working a high city job. I know of a person who does this, he then surfaces on a Sunday night after he has had his dosage, then goes back to his high city job!Not sure if there aren't plenty of those already. The trouble is they are illegal (usually with good reason) and I doubt any studies have been done on their effects on metabolism...
For me my weight crashes when I am stressed/depressed and I can lose weight rapidly, fall in love it piles on!I think you may really be on to something major with the oxytocin. For instance, when it was fashionable to be really thin, no, thinner than that, several of my friends would lose weight when in love. And it wasn't a simple case of being too happy to eat - or getting more exercise! Being happy seems to affect weight, and certainly being unhappy does. Easy for people to think others are just eating less or more, but that's the same mindset that reckons we give ourselves T2 by being fat.
Lots of us have major trauma in life that goes on and on, and our weight spirals and adds another level of misery, but our primitive bodies think it's a good survival mechanism.
I will follow this with my geeky science head on. A lot of variables have just fallen into place.
Oh wait, you may have just answered todays diabetic riddle with your mention of a cat-stroking peptide.I've tended to think of it as "the cat - stroking peptide" - This starts to get into the mechanism of why human community and support (and hell, even the value of this very forum) is valuable.
Fully agree.is how important human to human connection is to good health, for we as social animals. How important love, and happiness is to general health.
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