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Wonder Drug Cures Shyness
#8556057 - 06/23/08 08:45 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Scientists find childbirth wonder drug that can 'cure' shyness Last updated at 20:30pm on 22.06.08
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It can turn anything from job interviews to the most routine of family gatherings into a sweat-inducing ordeal.
But a 'love drug' produced naturally by the body during sex and childbirth could offer hope to the millions of people blighted by shyness, scientists have said.
Investigators believe oxytocin - a natural hormone that assists childbirth and helps mothers bond with newborn babies - could become a wonder drug for overcoming shyness. Shy girl with hand over face
Scientists found the drug could help shyness
Trials have found that oxytocin can reduce anxiety and ease phobias. Researchers say the hormone offers a possible, safe, alternative to alcohol as a means of overcoming the problem.
Sixty per cent of Britons say they have suffered from shyness and one in 10 say it impedes their daily life.
Researchers in the US, Europe and Australia are now racing to develop commercial forms of the hormone, including a nasal spray.
They believe it could also be turned into a 'wonder drug' to treat a range of personality disorders such as autism, depression and anxiety.
Paul Zak, a professor of neuroscience at California’s Claremont Graduate University said: 'Tests have shown that oxytocin reduces anxiety levels in users. It is a hormone that facilitates social contact between people.
What’s more, it is a very safe product that does not have any side effects and is not addictive.'
Professor Zak has tested the hormone on hundreds of patients. Its main effect is to curb the instincts of wariness and suspicion that cause anxiety.
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The hormone is said to help mothers bond with their babies
Produced naturally in the brain during social interactions, it promotes romantic feelings, helps mothers bond with babies and makes people more sociable.
Oxytocin is released during orgasm and is also the key birthing hormone that enables the cervix to open and the contractions to work. Where labour has to be induced, it is often given to the mother intravenously to kick-start contractions.
Professor Zak said: 'We've seen that it makes you care about the other person. It also increases your generosity towards that person. That's why (the hormone) facilitates social interaction.'
In other recent trials, researchers at Zurich University in Switzerland have managed to ease symptoms of extreme shyness in 120 patients by giving them the hormone treatment half an hour before they encountered an awkward situation.
Oxytocin spray has also been successfully trialled at the University of New South Wales.
Autistic patients given oxytocin as part of a study in New York found their ability to recognise emotions such as happiness or anger in a person's tone of voice - something which usually proved difficult - also improved.
Experiments by Dr Eric Hollander at the city's Mount Sinai School of Medicine found a single intravenous infusion of the chemical triggered improvements that lasted for two weeks.
Previous research has revealed autistic children have lower than usual levels of oxytocin in their blood.
Professor Zak said: 'Oxytocin does not cure autism, but it does reduce the symptoms.' Studies on rats at Emory University in Atlanta also suggested the hormone made the rodents more faithful to their partners.
The potential uses of oxytocin offer commercial possibilities well beyond individual patients too. Restaurants, for instance, could spray a thin mist over customers to put them at ease.
It could be used as a benign form of tear gas, quelling any violent feelings among groups of demonstrators, or, building on the Atlanta research, even to prevent extramarital affairs.
Previous research into the hormone by Professor Zak suggested that generous people had higher than average levels of oxytocin in the brain, while mean-spirited people have lower than normal levels.
Researchers gave doses of oxytocin and a placebo to participants, who were then asked to decide how to split a sum of cash with a stranger. Those given oxytocin offered 80 per cent more money than those given a placebo.
However, despite the many potential benefits of the research projects, some scientists have sounded warnings over the negative potential uses the hormone offers.
They say oxytocin could have potential as a date-rape drug as it is involved in both trust and sexual arousal.
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Ender Wiggin]
#8556058 - 06/23/08 08:46 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Edited by veggie (06/23/08 09:03 PM)
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Ender Wiggin]
#8556206 - 06/23/08 09:20 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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No offense but seriously? This is going beyond stupid. FOR SHYNESS? Get real. If it was for chronic depression or something like incapable of being social I would understand.
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Marijuana cured MY shyness. True story.
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Irieforester]
#8556504 - 06/23/08 10:44 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Irieforester said: Marijuana cured MY shyness. True story.
Me too! I wish they had the same enthusiasm with mother natures products, instead of going down a much harder path.
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Azagthoth]
#8556650 - 06/23/08 11:40 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Umm, they mentioned oxytocin, not oxycontin. I think you might have been confused?
It's certainly not really dangerous, it's a natural hormone, unless someone figured out how to make it super pure and big doses probably.
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I thought this would be about ecstasy. There's a shyness curing wonder drug...
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: bongoboy2000]
#8556823 - 06/24/08 12:40 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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This stuff is probably a lot of fun and not controlled or an analogue or anything that is.
I wonder what it would do to someone that wasn't shy.
This stuff kind of reminds me of pt-141, which is apparently available on the RC market for about $100 / dose.
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LOL the ultimate date rape drug.
Instead they are willing as opposed to unconscious.
Theres some real moral issues going on here - when is consent actual consent and when is it just to much of a natural brain chemical?
If someone is born with a brain that produces to much "horny" chemical are they actually consenting when they would feel differently if they didn't have it?
Logically I wouldn't want to consent to an ugly girl but if she whipped your trousers off and started sucking your cock hard you'd probably just think "oh well" and shut your eyes?
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Ego Death]
#8557539 - 06/24/08 08:32 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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The potential uses of oxytocin offer commercial possibilities well beyond individual patients too. Restaurants, for instance, could spray a thin mist over customers to put them at ease.
It could be used as a benign form of tear gas, quelling any violent feelings among groups of demonstrators, or, building on the Atlanta research, even to prevent extramarital affairs.
Damn that's pretty scary.. but I want some nonetheless!
Brave New World anyone?
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Adamist]
#8557550 - 06/24/08 08:35 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I wonder if I could buy some off the internet...
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Adamist]
#8557609 - 06/24/08 09:02 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Adamist said: I wonder if I could buy some off the internet...
I looked, it is available as a veterinary medicine. But Rx only...
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: dwpineal]
#8557715 - 06/24/08 09:40 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Interesting. Yeah I remember them giving it to my baby's mama when she was going through labor. I didn't know it had anxiety-relieving properties though... makes sense that they'd give it to women in the throes of child-birth.
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Adamist]
#8557720 - 06/24/08 09:42 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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New anti-shyness drug: Meth!
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orally administered or injected oxytocin does not cross the brain barrier. they would need to develop a synthetic analog that does in order for it to be effective. they perhaps already have created this or it's in development. I would like some as a small supplement cuz im shy as hell around chicks I don't "seize the moment" well and regret it when i miss the opportunities :P
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: bongoboy2000]
#8558714 - 06/24/08 02:57 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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i was thinking MDMA as well.
Edited by DOSESandROLLS (06/24/08 03:01 PM)
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: Irieforester]
#8558735 - 06/24/08 03:05 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Irieforester said: Marijuana cured MY shyness. True story.
I find the effects of cannabis to make more introverted. I find that while i'm stoned I would rather not be around those that aren't as it seems they/I can't fully relate. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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Isn't this that drug that makes womens vagina's wider? Think I read that somewhere.
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: daytripper05]
#8561725 - 06/25/08 09:20 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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daytripper05 said:
I find the effects of cannabis to make more introverted. I find that while i'm stoned I would rather not be around those that aren't as it seems they/I can't fully relate. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Interesting...I find that pot does the EXACT same thing to me. Since it does that to me I find it more difficult to be in social situations around people I don't know or trust that well. However, with close friends it actually opens me up more.
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Re: Wonder Drug Cures Shyness [Re: phoenity]
#8561835 - 06/25/08 10:04 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm glad you mentioned that because after I posted it, I thought the same thing. We I get stoned I talk a lot more. I'm a talker/story teller by nature anyway. You get me in the middle of a crowd of people I am comfortable with I can entertain the crowd all night long and being stoned only amplifies these qualities. But you get me in a foreign situation or place stoned I get extremely shy and reserved.
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