The Orgasm of Chemistry

Chemistry contributes to the warm, comfortable feelings that we experience form being with another person. When we, human beings, are attracted to another person, we set on a chain of chemical reactions between our BODY and our BRAIN. There is a logical explanation for these feelings.  The is simply  Body-Brain’s related chemical stimulant substances.  The most well-documented is phenyl ethylamine (PEA). PEA is just a natural substance named ammine (a molecule that contains the group NH₂ that are the chief components of proteins and are synthesized by living cells or are obtained as essential components of our diet). PEA is a natural upper drug, amphetamine (a stimulant for our Central Nervous System (CNS)). PEA contributes to our feelings describe as “on top-of-the world” when we feel enchanting by another human being. We can also experience a non-bewitched effect of PEA from high-intensive activities such as skyhook jumping or by consuming CHOCOLATE . . . Chocolate contains small concentration of PEA. This small amount of PEA in the chocolate accounts for why we use “chocolate” as a comfort food, to get the same warm feelings as others do from our Mom’s chicken soup.

A substance released by PEA is a neurochemical (a chemical makeup that activates our nervous tissue) sophisticated named  “dopamine”. Chocolate elevates levels of dopamine in our Brain. Dopamine stimulates the release of another fancy chemical called  “oxytocin”, common known as “the cuddle chemical”. Oxytocin is related with our feeling of mothering, the stimulating contractions during labor and aiding with breast feeding. Oxytocin is produced by our brain''s limbic system. Oxytocin is released in both men and women during sexual climax as well as during birth and breast-feeding. Receptors (i.e., RECEIVER, a cell or groups of cells that receives stimuli) located in the brain''s dopamine reward system reinforce the good feelings that these activities bring. But oxytocin, like love, works in mysterious ways. In women, estrogen (a substance <as a sex hormone>) seems to facilitate the feel-good effects of oxytocin by moderating the release of adrenaline and other stress hormones. Testosterone makes men more susceptible to the fight-or-flight response and mitigates the stress-relieving effects of oxytocin. Moreover, scientists have recently postulated that both genders release this nurturing hormone, oxytocin, when touching, and cuddling.  In addition, oxytocin levels significantly increase during orgasm.

Another induced chemical substance in our brain is norepinephrine (a vasopressor hormone <a substance causing a rise in blood pressure by putting a vasoconstrictor effect>). “Norepinephrine” stimulates the production of adrenaline (i.e., epinephrine <a hormone that is the principal blood-pressure raising hormone>), therefore, makes our blood soar when we are near a person who are attracted to us.  Norepinephrine causes us to experience sweaty palms, jumpy stomach, thumping heart, and nervous jitters.

Well, how these chemical stimulants expressed as emotions can correlate or translate into physical sensations?  A nerve (any filamentous bands of nervous tissue that connect parts of our nervous system with our other organs and conduct nervous impulses) transports signals from our Brain to our organs, i.e., “setting our heart pounding, making our stomach do flip-flops, and perhaps, lighting our loins on fire”.  These “vain or foolish” feelings produce a sensation of building tension, we feel great and we want to have or experience these feelings more often.

Psychologists and research scientists have also reported an “intrusive thinking” where this intrusive (plutonic <an act of wrongfully entering upon, seizing, or taking possession of>) thinking is described as like the brain is focused on an object of our affection.  This translate to our experience when we say that “our heart rules our head”. The part of our brain that controls this sensation is called, cortex.  The cortex is the area of our brain that regulates our logical thinking, while our emotions are regulated by our limbic system.  If we consume many nutritional chemical substance that contains or stimulate PEA and dopamine levels on our brain, our heads proceed to generate emotions thru our limbic system. Well, scientists agree that these chemical stimulations are not everything.  For instance, culture, circumstances, personality and other variables that turns our head and who leaves us cold. Therefore, do not try to reproduce that “loving feeling” in basement of chemistry laboratories’ experiments, only, but let us try our best to enjoy the natural highs that OUR LIFE GIVE US!!!!!!!!!!!!

MEDITATION:

A better social networks (an interconnected or interrelated group of people) are associated with better overall HEALTH and increased a long duration of individual