BluE Scrubs

You know how we blame hormones for most things? Now, you can blame hormones for EVERYTHING!!! Isn’t it great!

This is highly academic and very very boring I must warn you, and so I have spared the details. You know the molecular structure and how it’s actually an octapeptide and how it is excitingly synthesized in the hypothalamus?? Yes I am sure we all know that. Because we are women and we fuss about details.

But, but.. I could just make you feel better for when you have to confusingly pick up your clothes scattered on his bedroom floor on one Sunday hang-oh-so-over morning.

"You first meet him and he’s passable," Witt said of the phenomena. "The second
time you go out with him, he’s OK. The third time you go out with him, you have
sex. And from that point on you can’t imagine what life would be like without
him."
"What’s behind it?" she added. "It could be oxytocin."

Oxytocin is also called a ‘cuddle-hormone’.

Now for future reference and for me to actually survive this mind numbing world of drugs, let’s remember that,

Oxytocin causes vasodilation- TRUE
Oxytocin causes reflex tachycardia- TRUE

Yes I am a no-lifer. And if none of it feels like it makes sense, chances are it probably doesn’t.