World’s Most Asked Questions: What Is Love?
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This is the world's most asked questions. Today's question - What is love? It's the kind of thing that keeps poets and philosophers up at night. But science actually has a pretty good explanation for it too. Actually, several explanations and the answer might change depending on what kind of scientist you ask. Â A biologist would say it's all about reproduction and the evolution and survival of a species, A psychologist may go on about our need for togetherness and acceptance.
The best way to understand love is through chemistry. Brain chemistry. Although the heart is our symbol of love for some reason when it comes down to it love is all about the brain. We know this because we can actually see love in action in brain scans and you know what? It looks an awful lot like a brain on cocaine.
As a person first falls in love at least a dozen different brain parts light up to release powerful chemicals hormones and neurotransmitters that trigger feelings of excitement euphoria bonding and butterflies. Â Research also shows the kind of unconditional love between a mother and child activates slightly different regions of the brain.
Early romantic love and attraction what you might call passion are all about flooding the brain's reward systems in a tsunami of feel-good chemicals like adrenaline nor-epinephrine and dopamine. This is why a brain on intense new love looks a whole lot like a brain on coke. Adrenaline and norepinephrine amp up your heart rate and get you all restless while those dopamine drips leave you feeling euphoric. These chemicals light up your brain's pleasure centers lowering your pleasure thresholds and making it easier to feel good about everything.
Interestingly this kind of passionate new love is also marked by lowered serotonin levels similar to those found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorders. Which may help explain those thirty texts you're infatuated new lovers sent you while you were in the shower. Eventually, most of these more intense obsessive components of new love settle down into a deeper calmer form of love associated with attachment and bonding.
Here your brain chemistry starts changing again and hormones like Oxycontin and vasopressin take over their mission like Al Green's is to get you to state again. You may have heard of oxytocin the so-called cuddle hormone it gets released earning orgasms and for women during childbirth and it helps cement bonds between people and you can think of vasopressin as the monogamy hormone and you know it's taught us more about it than anything else.
Prairie voles, one of the very few mammals that mate for life after mating a male voles brain gets flooded with vasopressin and essentially gets hooked on his mate forever. The two then have lots of sex and all that tiny boot knocking keeps the vasopressin flowing when researchers gave voles a compound that suppressed the effects of oppressiveness the pair's quickly fell apart losing their devotion to each other. So, while in the poetic sense love may always be something of a mystery from the scientific view.Â
Our survey takes people between the ages of 51 and 60 are the most likely to have been in love. People who got their energy most from exercise were also more likely to have been in love on the other hand people who said they got their energy from food were less likely to have been having in love.
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