Hormone oxytocin may help Asperger's patients

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Itty Bitty Kitty Committee!

Seriously. Kittens will do it. Babies are good too, especially human babies. Oh, and sex, apparently.

TPE2,

I don't see anywhere in the journal saying that it'll actually improve the deficits in social ability; staring at pictures of faces can be due to a greater interest in people due to the bonding hormone (I can stare at people till the cows come home, and it doesn't make me uncomfortable in the slightest), as can the same with giving back to people that give to you.

The eccentric group can simply be just as interested in objects, or more so, than they are people, and this hormone can make them more interested in people, whereas the aloof group is so impaired that an added interest does nothing to outside observers.

Firstly I would like to address this very interesting thread. Oxytocin is indeed released, by the Anterior Pituitary Gland (in the bottuck) during orgasm. Well that is to say, for women, apparently. That's what they say. I'm very interested to know more about what women experience physiologically during orgasm. For a man though, Oxytocin is pumped throughout the body during stimulation and ejaculated out of the body, along with the semen. So as it may relax us, it also depletes our capacity and interest for further connection. (Sound familiar fellas?).

Now this from another thread I contributed to -

Oxytocin (excuse my laymans understanding) is pumped throughout the body by the Anterior Pituitary Gland (yes it is in the buttock). It aids in the transmission of all plasmas throughout the body (there are ten I think). It is responsible for the feelings of connection between members of the same species and as other people have indicated, other mammals. They have Oxytocin as well.

The APG requires Magnesium and Essential Fatty Acids to operate well. (We all know the "feel good" effects of Magnesium and EFA's. This is because the fluids are moving more effectively throughout the body). One of the most noticeable plasmas is the sexual fluids. When we feel connected obviously the production of sexual fluid increases. This is the effect of Oxytocin. The interesting thing about it is the more you get the more you desire connection and the less you get the less you wish to be near people. Sound familiar?

So we find ourselves in a catch-22 situation with regards Oxytocin. This is where diet comes in. (But there are sooo many other ways of increasing Oxytocin. If anyone is interested, I would love to share my research). I am personally focussing my efforts on diet, believing that the increase in Oxytocin will increase my tolerance and eventual desire for human company. And it is slowly working too!

If I can share a few easy ways with you: warmth (a warm bath, warm climate, soft music, warm colours, warm water rather than cool, pets, doing what you enjoy, sunlight of course, broad spectrum indoor lighting); Essential Fatty Acids (coconut oil is a miracle! but cold pressed organic oils generally, especially sesame and sunflower, avocado but only if you're digestion is good, warm nut mylks, organic Epsom salt baths); most importantly though minerals (Magnesium, Calcium, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc). Do not underestimate the importance of these Alkalising minerals. We are not machines. We have natural requirements. Magnesium and Calcium are particularly important to a functioning Anterior Pituitary Gland.

I am extremely interested in discussing this with anyone further as I have dedicated myself to it and my own healing.

Oxytocin plasma is ejaculated out by the male. I have not come across anything which indicates the same for women. If Oxytocin increases ones desire for bonding, this could explain the incidence of men just wanting to fall asleep and not be touched after ejaculation.

I have since corrected my hasty ill-informed statement about where Oxytocin is produced. I read it somewhere perhaps from a person who assumed "posterior" meant...well you know.



I don't personally subscribe to the idea of reducing the issue of Autism to one cause and thus one therapy so I would have to agree that Oxytocin is not a panacea for all. But there is mounting evidence that it is useful to some. I am personally having some success in my own "healing" (lessening of the symptoms of "Aspergers Syndrome".