Molecule Gives Lovers Just One Year

[125gJoe]

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051129...R8DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl



"Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year

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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[Halo]

Wataugachick must be putting that in my corn flakes... Two years plus, and she still makes me sweat when she smiles :devil:

 

[ashdavid]

I must have used all my molecules up long ago!!! :laugh:



Just kidding ,I still have some left ..... I think.....

 

[Mako]

Leave it up to the Italians to come up with something like that. Kinda curious theory though. If Nerve Growth Factor is the culprit, and the "out of love" thing happens when NGF peters out, pardon the pun, must be just the reason my wife is always telling me I'm getting on her nerves now.

 

[Larissa]

Lol, Mako. I read this article too, and while I completely see what it's talking about, how come I'm just as in love and attracted to my husband now (8 years of marriage and 3 kids later) as I was then?

 

[SnakeIce]

Because chemistry isn't the only source of bonding. I would use the word comitment, but that sounds like what happens when you are forced to go to the insane assylum.

The habit of looking for the best interest of another person over time generates equally as intense feelings or greater even than that chemical can make you feel. Besides, I've always known love isn't a feeling by deffinition. The result of loveing someone can be wonderful feelings, but love is much more that that.

 

[SnakeIce]

I must have used all my molecules up long ago!!! :laugh:



Just kidding ,I still have some left ..... I think.....

I just get this picture of your stockpile of marble attoms connected together into these molecules. You used all your marbles??!!!

You can have some of my marble collection if you have come to such dire straights

 

[aknif]

All this proves is that Italian scientists are FROOTY!!!

I'm with Larissa... 10 years and 2 kids later, my hubby still does it for me in a big way!

 

[ashdavid]

The habit of looking for the best interest of another person over time generates equally as intense feelings or greater even than that chemical can make you feel. Besides, I've always known love isn't a feeling by deffinition. The result of loveing someone can be wonderful feelings, but love is much more that that.

SSSSSHHHHHHH.......... Be quite SnakeIce, you don't want anyone knowing what is really going on. If I admit to that, my manhood will be seriously in jeopardy. And if my wife finds this out... well you don't want to go there. :laugh:

I just get this picture of your stockpile of marble attoms connected together into these molecules. You used all your marbles??!!!

You can have some of my marble collection if you have come to such dire straights

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If it is at all possible for you to lend me some, I live at..... :laugh: