Pleasure

The pleasure of feeling good... Or why "Tell me why I don't like Mondays" has more to do with what's going on in our head than what happens Monday morning in bed?

We humans have a complicated and ambivalent relationship to pleasure, which we spend an enormous amount of time and resources pursuing. A key motivator of our lives, pleasure is central to learning, for we must find things like food, water, and sex rewarding in order to survive and pass our genetic material to the next generation. Certain forms of pleasure are accorded special status. Many of our most important rituals involving prayer, music, dance, and meditation produce a kind of transcendent pleasure that has become deeply ingrained in human cultural practice.

But what if I told you that there is one simple molecule that can explain most of our pleasures and pains? A molecule that can make us feel love, happiness, generosity, addiction, depression, and anxiety? A molecule that can influence our social behavior, our moral judgments, our trustworthiness, and our empathy? That molecule is oxytocin, and it is the key to understanding ourselves and our society.

Oxytocin is a neuropeptide, a small protein that acts as a chemical messenger in the brain and other parts of the body. It is best known for its role in sexual reproduction and often referred to as the love hormone, because it is released during orgasm, childbirth, breastfeeding, and bonding. It is also involved in many other functions, such as stress regulation, pain perception, memory formation, and immune system response.

But oxytocin is not just a cuddle hormone. It is also a double-edged sword that can have positive or negative effects depending on the context and the individual. Oxytocin can enhance trust and cooperation among people who share a common identity or goal, but it can also increase aggression and prejudice against those who are perceived as outsiders or enemies. Oxytocin can reduce anxiety and depression in some cases, but it can also increase them in others. Oxytocin can make us more generous and altruistic, but it can also make us more selfish and greedy.

In this blog post, I will argue that oxytocin is the main driver of most of our modern day dreary and blues. I will show how oxytocin levels are influenced by various factors such as social isolation, media consumption, environmental stressors, diet, drugs, and genetics. I will also discuss how oxytocin affects our mood, cognition, behavior, and health. Finally, I will suggest some ways to boost our oxytocin levels naturally and safely without resorting to synthetic drugs or risky behaviors.
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