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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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Well I don't know but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.
I'm tired of screwin' up, tired of goin' down,
Tired of myself, tired of this town
 
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Neuroscience is for nerds.
 
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That's not true I've been madly in love with my dogs for several years.
 
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Is that the same love you felt for me?


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Well I don't know but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.
I'm tired of screwin' up, tired of goin' down,
Tired of myself, tired of this town
 
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the addiction counselor i meet with already mentioned this...i truly believe that "love" in the first year is completely chemical.
actually...that chemical gets replaced by another chemical for the experience of "real" love after the first two years together.


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ariel
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actually...that chemical gets replaced by another chemical for the experience of "real" love after the first two years together.


This article is making the dork in me come out Frowner

The "lust" feeling is caused by norepinephrine, phenylethylamine and dopamine. Oxytocin takes over after a few years.
 
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Yeah but if you think about it, it really is interesting the way in which the releasing of those chemicals is stimulated. It's interesting how love has some legitimate biological components.
 
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i only said that to get you in bed


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actually...that chemical gets replaced by another chemical for the experience of "real" love after the first two years together.


This article is making the dork in me come out Frowner

The "lust" feeling is caused by norepinephrine, phenylethylamine and dopamine. Oxytocin takes over after a few years.



hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Eeker What are those smilies doing??*#!


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What are those smilies doing??


Demonstrating what neurotransmitters make you do.

Though looks like it's anal, I don't know if there are different chemicals that make you want to do that.
 
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That's not true I've been madly in love with my dogs for several years.


woah


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It's pretty obvious that's not what I meant.
 
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i love my cat, even though he physically abuses me while i sleep.
 
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actually...that chemical gets replaced by another chemical for the experience of "real" love after the first two years together.


This article is making the dork in me come out Frowner

The "lust" feeling is caused by norepinephrine, phenylethylamine and dopamine. Oxytocin takes over after a few years.



how romantic. i'm overcome w/ oxytocin for you Eeker


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i love my cat, even though he physically abuses me while i sleep.

Get the furball declawed then.


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Hey my baby, don't you know our love is true
 
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i love my cat, even though he physically abuses me while i sleep.

Get the furball declawed then.


meow chika meow meow?

/sorry


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ariel
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how romantic. i'm overcome w/ oxytocin for you


sounds dirty, come over.

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Get the furball declawed then.


he doesn't put his claws out, just wacks me in the head with his paw and bites me. don't think i can get him deteethed.
 
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he doesn't put his claws out, just wacks me in the head with his paw and bites me. don't think i can get him deteethed.

Have you tried punting it across the apartment?


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Hey my baby, don't you know our love is true
 
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Have you tried punting it across the apartment?


you haven't seen this cat. he's too cute to punt, even when he's beating you up.

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sounds dirty, come over.


hot, i will tomorrow. prepare your neurotransmitters.


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