{"id":652,"date":"2015-12-03T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T08:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hertoghetb.cluster005.ovh.net\/en\/?p=652"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T13:47:06","slug":"the-oxytocin-the-pleasure-hormone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/the-oxytocin-the-pleasure-hormone\/","title":{"rendered":"The oxytocin, the pleasure hormone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The secretion of oxytocin has very positive effects on our physical, psychological and sexual abilities. It tends to make us sociable and increases the emotional attachment with our partner, friends or family. Oxytocin also enhances feelings of joy, confidence and can impact on your mood, your stress management as well as your sexuality (as much the female orgasm as the male ejaculation).<\/p>\n<p>With age, the oxytocin effects on the body tend to dwindle down, making the need for oxytocin supplementation greater as years pass by. This decline can be explained by 3 reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cells that produce oxytocin become less able to increase their production of oxytocin after stimulation, resulting in too low levels of oxytocin when needed<\/li>\n<li>The levels of oxytocin decrease in central brain areas where emotions are created<\/li>\n<li>The number of oxytocin receptors in the target cells, which are essential for oxytocin action, drops in elderly persons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The lack, as much as the excess of oxytocin creates a hormonal unbalance that is important to adjust.<\/p>\n<table width=\"659\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"330\"><strong>Oxytocin DEFICIENCIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"330\"><strong>Oxytocin EXCESS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"330\"><strong>SOCIAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lack of warm-heartedness<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rareness or absence of a smile<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Quickly finding that others are disturbing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Quickly having enough of other people<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tendency to social isolation, not very sociable<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SEXUAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low sex drive<\/li>\n<li>Women &amp; men: Less intense orgasm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Women: Lack of orgasm<\/strong>, slow to have an orgasm, difficulty to have an orgasm, absence of multiple orgasms<\/li>\n<li><strong>Men: Lack of ejaculation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"330\"><strong>SOCIAL AND SEXUAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sticky<\/strong>, too affectionate, dependant attitude<\/li>\n<li>Excessive sex drive<\/li>\n<li>Excessive love attitudes and expressions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Signs of cortisol deficiency <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Low energy,<\/strong> sleepiness, sleepy irritability<\/li>\n<li>Nausea and vomiting<\/li>\n<li>Abnormal heart beats (arrhythmias)<\/li>\n<li>Drops in blood pressure (causing dizziness, lightheadedness, feeling faint)<\/li>\n<li>Difficulties in breathing (only at extremely high doses)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Signs of water intoxication and low levels of sodium in the blood: may occur if high doses are used for long periods, complaints include: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Headache<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Appetite loss, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a9 <em>Dr. Thierry Hertoghe, Brussels<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To go further on this topic, you can read Dr. Hertoghe\u2019s book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eupresse-publications\/livres-du-dr-hertoghe\/\">Passion, Sex and Long life<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secretion of oxytocin has very positive effects on our physical, psychological and sexual abilities. It tends to make us sociable and increases the emotional attachment with our partner, friends or family. Oxytocin also enhances feelings of joy, confidence and can impact on your mood, your stress management as well as your sexuality (as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hertoghe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}