Viagra boosts feel-good 'love' hormone
Impotence drugs such as Viagra may do more than help men physically have sex -- they may also boost levels of a hormone linked with feelings of love, U.S. researchers reported Thursday.
Viagra and related drugs seem to act on the part of the brain that controls release of the hormone oxytocin.
Viagra, known generically as sildenafil, raised levels of the hormone oxytocin in rats, the team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a report published in the Journal of Physiology.
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Turns out electrical stimulation to the brain is necessary to cause the release of oxytocin, so unless you want to make love with electrodes in your brain, you'd better not count on Viagra to increase emotional bonding. For more, see: http://www.reuniting.info/science/viagra_and_oxytocin
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