Muscles Love Oxytocin: So-Called "Hug Hormone" Important In Muscle Regeneration
I've written before about the most lovable molecule on the planet, oxytocin, and how it isn't the warm and fuzzy chemical it's purported to be. Though you'll often hear it referred to as the 'love hormone' or the 'trust molecule', oxytocin has a wide variety of effects in our bodies. For the most part, though, scientists (and especially the media) have focused on how it affects our behavior—how sniffing oxytocin changes how so-and-so group of people act when doing such-and-such. But this mon