Phuket - Sick buffalos

Coolhand · #1 03-06-2005, 00:32

"A hormone known to make fools fall in love may also part fools from their money, according to a recent experiment from Switzerland. A team of psychologists and economists set up a game simulating financial investment and found a whiff of the hormone oxytocin - previously linked to mating in other mammals - induced people to more readily trust others with money. The findings were published in today's issue of the journal Nature. "What you're seeing in this story is just the beginning - just the tip of the iceberg of what oxytocin may be doing in humans," said Larry Young, a psychiatry professor at Emory University. The findings suggest unconscious biological forces influence the way people make decisions. While some see the potential for nefarious use of oxytocin in mass manipulation, the Swiss researchers say they see it may help those who have trouble with social connection. Not to be confused with the powerful narcotic drug Oxycontin, oxytocin is a natural hormone released in the brains of many mammals during sex and childbirth, said Markus Heinrichs, one of the study's authors and a psychologist at the University of Zurich."

butterflyblonde · #2 03-06-2005, 03:15

And it's true, the one sure way a woman can get what she wants is to ask her man for it just before he is about to ***

Mav · #3 03-06-2005, 09:09

I told a tg about the sick buffalo story at Xmas, she laughed her head off because she had never heard of girls making this as an excuse to ask for money......3 months later, you guessed it, l got the sick cows call.....100,000 baht please......lt was then my turn to laugh.

JayBee · #4 03-06-2005, 09:26

That is what they give women having babies to speed up the labor, so they deliver sooner. If it were not for oxytocin, both of my children would have the same birthday. When the second one was coming, my ex cried and begged me to go get the doctor to give her the drug to speed things up. Without the drug, it would have taken many more hours for her to deliver, since once she got to 2 cm, the process of dilation of the vaginal opening seemed to stall and no progress was made for several painful hours. When he put the drug in the IV, she dilated from 2 cm to 10 cm in a matter of minutes. We were pushing the guerney to the delivery room as if we were reckless drivers in a mad rush on the freeway, and she was huffing and puffing, trying to stop the baby from coming out before we could get down the hallway to the delivery room. We were no sooner in the room before my son's head began to crown. It was 10:30 PM. They missed having the same Birthday by an hour and a half!