Eight Ways to Increase Oxytocin In Your Body

  Oxytocin, known as the love hormone, is much more than just a biological component. In fact, in addition to promoting social interactions, breastfeeding, caring, and childbirth, this hormone, with neurotransmitter functions, serves many more purposes. For example, it lowers blood pressure and cortisol levels, increases pain thresholds, and reduces anxiety. As a matter of fact, oxytocin is one of the most powerful brain chemicals when it comes to modulating your behavior. Furthermore, as Professor Miranda Olff et al from the University of Amsterdam explain in the medical journal, Psychoneuroendocrinology, oxytocin is a promoter of mental health. Indeed, it generates…