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Mike
Carruthers:
Love, it can make people do crazy things and it's partly chemical.
Lauren Slater:
If you're in love and the love is returned then that's like an
extremely powerful heady experience that causes a full surge of
adrenaline, it might keep you up, you might go skiing, you might
be able to run 7 miles where before you could only run 3.
Lauren Slater
is author of the cover story in the February issue of National
Geographic Magazine called Love, The Chemical Reaction…
Probably most
people have the experience like being in love and feeling like
you might do things you wouldn't ordinarily do. That's because
there is so much adrenaline being released into your system
that you literally are stronger.
Passion seems
to fade away in all love relationships, that's been confirmed
in studies all over the world and apparently that's a good thing-because
of what passion does.
It's probably
bad for you, I mean it's probably not good for your heart it
raises your blood pressure, your adrenaline it's a state of
excitement. And human beings can't really live in such a high
pitched state all of the time. You wouldn't get anything else
done; you wouldn't be very good at anything.
And interestingly
Lauren found some research that shows that the brain of people
madly in love looks similar to the brain of people with obsessive-compulsive
disorder.
That both states
may be associated with abnormal serotonin levels. Abnormal levels
of serotonin are linked to obsessive thinking; I mean that's
what love often times is. And that's what mental illness is
too, often.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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