On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 00:39 -0700, Heather Madrone wrote: > I always thought that prolactin, not oxytocin, was the magic joy > juice That was yesterday
Today it's oxytocin Wait for something else tomorrow... Personally I am sceptical about these "single wonder molecules" because the number of single wonder molecules seems to be too high to make sense in a biochemical environment of extreme complexity about which we don't know what we don't know. Typically one molecule has effects via a number of pathways involving dozens or hundreds of other molecules that might or might not work in particular ways depending on the genetic structure, environment and the presence or absence of receptors in numbers, potentiating or suppressing effects of other molecules and the pre-existing effects of a thousand other molecules depending on time, age, sex, diet, disease or physiological condition. shiv
