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Possible Love Molecule?
aychamo writes "Psychiatrists from Pavia University have associated early romantic love with a biochemical known as nerve growth factor (NGF). Apparently, levels of NGF in the bloodstream were significantly higher in subjects who were in the early stages of romance than individuals not in a relationship. Interestingly, "subjects in love who--after 12-24 months--maintained the same relationship but were no longer in the same mental state to which they had referred during the initial evaluation" did not have elevated NGF levels."
I'd like to see the development of the love bomb.
Riot breaks out, and instead of tear gas they love gas them.
Civil war in wherever? Drop the love bomb!
Pretty Pictures!
Strangeness from the wiki:
... e ... cule of love - apologies to Lou Reed
... Growth ... Factor ... Growth ... Factor ... Growth ... Factor - J Lennon
... needs now ... is N ... G F - Burt B
Nerve growth factor (NGF), the prototypical growth factor, is a protein secreted by a neuron's target.
Researchers at the University of Florida at Gainesville have discovered that wounds bathed in NGF healed twice as fast as untreated and unlicked wounds. NGF is found in the saliva of mice. NGF has not been found in human saliva.
- end wiki quote begin late night music free association
molecule of love, molecule of love
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You can squeeze my molecule till the juice run down by brain - R Johnson
Nerve
Nerve
Nerve
What the world
I'll stop now.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Well, the levels rise, but are they the source of the feeling or more like effect of it?
Tell me why the stars do shine
Tell me why the ivy twines
Tell me why the sky's so blue
and I'll tell you why I love you.
Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine
Phototropism makes ivy twine
Rayleigh scattering makes sky so blue
Sexual hormones are why I love you.
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
Research links high blood-content levels of the molecule NGF (nerve growth factor) to frequent delusions or hallucinations, impaired judgment, and a strange speech defect known only as "infantilation," characterized by--among other things--the inability to pronounce the consonants /l/ or /r/.
Researchers disagree on the exact effects of the dangerous compound, but have all stressed its perception altering characteristics, and have pushed strongly for stricter FDA standards concerning amounts found in consumer products. Hallmark, for example, would be required to either blow up its card factory or allow warning labels on every card.
/. is what happens when geeks talk. get used to it.
love bomb
I believe that's called Tequila.
For the first few months the molecule proliferates throughout the body as NGF phase 1, also known as the "New Girl Friend" molecule. After a set period of time, it transmutes into NGF phase 2, known as "Noticably Getting Fatter". This phase change causes a dramatic decrease in the desire to have sexual intercourse and initiate conversations, eventually leading to the end of the relationship.
The cycle may then begin a new with a new parter.
If I were on the research team, my next step would be to inject cool single women with NGF and do long informal interviews to figure out what happens. Maybe there'd also be wine. You know, for science!
"Love Molecule" is something really insulting to say about someone's manhood
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
It's not you, it's my Nerve Growth Factor! We can still be friends, right?
Demented But Determined.