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How Birth Control Brings Us Down
LiveScience.com ^ | 8-01-08 | Meredith F. Small

Posted on 08/03/2008 1:33:54 PM PDT by Renfield

....Oxytocin is the hormone that helps dilate the cervix before birth and is responsible for letting down milk for breastfeeding. In cultures with no birth control, adult women give birth more often and lactate much of the time. Over most of human history, women have also been involved with babies most of their adult lives.

Traditionally, then, women have been constantly under the influence of a hormone that promotes selective social memory, and women seem often to be the keepers of positive social interactions and the initiators of diplomacy and peace-making.....

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hormones; interaction

1 posted on 08/03/2008 1:33:54 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield

Messing around with hormones is always crazy.


2 posted on 08/03/2008 1:36:35 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: Renfield

That’s probably the trouble with Liberals - too much oxytocin.


3 posted on 08/03/2008 1:43:13 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: FFranco

Nope, just brain dead.


4 posted on 08/03/2008 2:36:05 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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