Hormones Produce Love
Our brain generate love using the same mechanism by which it
seeks out other rewards, such as food, drink, shelter, drugs, video, games, perhaps
love is not as closely linked to addiction as one might think. Love is
constructed by several brain regions. The tegmentum is fired up by
attractiveness and indeed, stalking behavior may result from over activity of
reward-seeking pathway, but thinking about love activates other brain
regions-the caudate nucleus and ‘fusiform’ and ‘angular’ gyri(ridges) of the cortex.
Love is after all a many splendored thing, so it should come as no surprise
that several different parts of the brain are needed to produce it.
Did you know that there are two hormones which produce love?
Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin are the ‘hormones of love
in humans’. We certainly secrete both of them: oxytocin causes uterine
contraction during birth and ejection of breast milk during suckling, while
arginine vasopressin makes us produce concentrated urine. These chemicals play
an important role in ‘love ‘related phenomena. When Oxytocin is sniffed into nose,
it produces trust. Arginine Vasopressin is involved in inter-male aggression
and male sexual arousal, also a surge of oxytocin is released to orgasm in both
sexes, lasting up to 30 minutes. Within the brain, these chemicals could promote
a feeling of ‘attachment ‘to others, and may create emotional bond that forms
between parents and children’s, as well as between lovers. The transmitters dopamine and serotonin are probably involved
in the mechanism underlying mood, so it is no surprise their level also change when we fall in
love-the former increasing and the latter decreasing .This alter the activities
of cerebral cortex, perhaps causing the cognitive alteration often described
subjectively as ‘losing one’s senses’. Along with oxytocin and arginine
vasopressin data, this suggests that love involves pervasive re-balancing of
neurotransmitter in brain. All this help to draw two people together, establish
them as a intensely attractive in each other’s eyes, suppress their inhibition
and alter their cognition and judgement. The multi-chemical nature of love also
means that we should be cautious about how we play with people’s brain chemistry.
The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors commonly used to treat depression
alter levels of not only serotonin, but also dopamine, oxytocin and arginine vasopressin.
Till date we know that there are various blood test for detecting
diseases but now there are even blood test to detect Love disease .Nerve growth
factor is a protein involved in the formation and maintenance of nervous system
.Level of nerve growth factor in the blood increase when people fall in love,
and rather sweetly the increase correlates with the reported intensity of their
romantic feeling. This does not mean that increased amounts of nerve growth
factor ‘cause ‘the love, as love could just easily be causing the increase in nerve
growth factor. But this increased level of chemicals invariably decline after a
year or two. This suggest that there is cerebral cut-off which limits the
initial surge of romance, just as the
adolescent tendency for intense infatuation lasts only two to three years. So
when you fall into Love and you face problem in your love life ,breakup with
your partner , then don’t feel guilty about this fact and blame yourself that why
did u meet the latter and why did u fall in love with latter , because once you
start feeling guilty about yourself then you experience all negative vibes in
life and ultimately go into depression so the best way is to think positively
and think that it was not your fault , it is a human phenomena , the function
of your hormones which creates feeling of “love” and emotional factor which
leads to breakup , “breakup” never takes place from one side there is some kind
of misunderstanding from both the partners.Thus there is no point of lamenting
over and feeling guilty about it when you where not only the person who was
involved i it but both of the couples where involved in “Love “and “breakup”.