The mystery of the chemical that helps love become eternal

Scientists have found that the specific chemicals in the brain "control" the love of each couple forever .

Those of us who love also want to hold the lover's hand to the final destination - that is, marry and build a happy family together. However, not everyone can get together "at the end of the love path" but quite a few cases have left halfway.

Is there any medicine on Earth that can help heal or make them love each other to "head and teeth" ? Unexpectedly, scientists have found such a chemical in the human body . Let's find the solution to that factor through the article below.

The ups and downs in love .

According to a report in the US, from 1970 to 2010, the number of married women decreased from 76.5 million to 34.9 million. The cause of this decline is due to people's notions about marriage changing. They decided to live together before getting married, not rushing to make a decision for a long-term engagement.

Despite careful consideration, until marriage, there is no guarantee that these marriages will last forever. The reason that many people make is that marriage and marriage are very different.

Therefore, romantic love stories like 'love to death ' will not last forever. According to anthropologist Helen Fisher, young couples often have relationships lasting from 4-5 years.

Around this time, they were immersed and savored the sweetness of love. The "honeymoon" phase will bring the relationship to sublimation but it will fall into "decline" when they have children.

He said that the period of "recession " is the most severe moment in marriage. It decides a lot about whether family life can last or not. Many couples have succumbed to the pressure of "rice money", of conflicts and have to go to court to divorce.

But of course, there are also couples who live happily until they start their teeth. And the surprise here is that scientists have found a factor that can make marriage possible completely.

Durable love comes from the brain

Some recent studies have focused on understanding the relationship between the nervous system and their impact on enduring love. Thereby, experts discovered the factor that helps enduring love comes from within the brain .

In 2008, the Swedish researcher, Hasse Walum, determined that gene variants from men's 'sincere genes' affect sustainability in relationships. However, not all people with this gene variant tend to "betray " their partners, but it makes the interaction in love diminish, such as the number of kisses, next to each other .

Scientists point out, when love, the brain stimulates us to want to be together more and desire to create a bond. Based on this, psychologist Martie Haselton of the University of California (Los Angeles) concluded in his study: love is a 'guarantee tool' and strengthened by natural selection . In other words, the brain is the factor that makes love so wonderful.

The human brain has a system called limbic system - a particularly important area with an emotional, instinctive control function. This limbic system works to affect the way we react to the world around us, such as being happy when receiving gifts, or grimacing if trampled on nails .

Conduct a magnetic resonance scan from this area for 'new' couples and couples who have been together for more than 20 years. The results showed that their brains had strange similarities.

When you see your partner's image, the VTA (Ventral tegmental area) and the caudate nucleus (caudal) of the study area become irritated and light up. These two regions contribute to pushing us to make decisions when interested, want to pursue a 'reward'. The 'reward' here is to be with the person you love.

This "reward" helps their minds become more relaxed by strengthening dopamine - the neurotransmitter active in a sense of excitement in the body. In addition, these areas also contain nerve receptors that provide oxytocin and vasopressin - neurological chemicals that reinforce cohesion and fidelity.

Non-glowing areas are places associated with anxiety and fear like the amygdala region - also known as the amygdala . This is the place to handle emotional factors in people.

Some psychological assessment surveys show that the obsession with "recession" with long-lasting couples is non-existent. Instead, the wonderful experiences from the 'new love' phase helped them calm down and receive it easily. In addition, the help of brain chemicals also contributes to a more sustainable marriage - dopamine, oxytocin and vasopressin .

Oxytocin is a hormone secreted in the hypothalamus, stored in the posterior lobe of the pituitary. This "chemical glue" works to maintain the stability of marriage and emotional life by making men avoid the object of attractive women.

Along with that, dopamine is considered a "happy chemical", secreted from one of the most primitive regions of the brain, at the top of the brain stem. In the brain, dopamine is rare, it is a neurotransmitter of about 0.3% of neurons in the brain, helping us experience pleasure, desire, "euphoria" , desire and pleasure. lost.

Vasopressin is known as a faithful chemical. However, this "monogamous" chemical does not appear in humans and it only exists in 3% of mammals.

However, for scientists, it is the discovery of chemicals in the brain that will help them open up new research paths to improve the quality of marriage in society.