What you don't know about oxytocin

Artist: Kevin Carden

On this episode, we discussed:

• What is oxytocin?¹

• Why what you’ve been told oxytocin² is only half-truth

• How oxytocin curbs our appetite

• How we like to get our oxytocin

• How texting can decrease oxytocin³

We are more powerful than we know.

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Additional resources:

https://romanshapoval.substack.com/i/139174210/you-down-with-pomc-ya-you-dont-know-me⁴

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2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905393/

3. https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are

4. Smith AI, Funder JW. Proopiomelanocortin processing in the pituitary, central nervous system, and peripheral tissues. Endocr Rev. 1988 Feb;9(1):159-79. doi: 10.1210/edrv-9-1-159. PMID: 3286233.