“Experiments have shown that a nasal squirt of oxytocin enhances trust and tunes people into others’ emotions…” Dr Larry Young.
I’ve actually been telling the oxytocin story for some time. Goodness knows we all need more of it and as an antidote to the adrenalin/cortisol flight/fight pathway – into which most of Western society is eternally plugged – oxytocin can’t be beaten.
As we’ve long known, orgasm, labour contractions, let down reflex – all ensure that a baby from conception through its earliest days and months of life is bathed in oxytocin.
I ask you to consider the other scenario – conceived by IVF, delivered by C-Sec and fed with formula – what are the implications for a child who hasn’t been exposed to one molecule of oxytocin in the way that Nature intended?
How on earth can we can get calm, connection, intimacy and trust from a bottle?
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