We're in love: What happens in body and mind?

In the stomach, moody, and heart beating - love is a real chemical storm. We all know the feeling: we feel euphoria, always with frequent breathing, a heartbeat and the feeling of having butterflies in our stomach

Love is a true storm that covers our minds and souls, but also in our body: in the end, nature leaves no stone motionless or trusting in the chance, given that this feeling and actions that follow in the first encounter are linked to survival of our species. Then here's what happens to our body at the chemical level when it's hit by these fatal sparks.

A vortex of hormones have shown that when we fall in love, areas responsible for the production of certain hormones come into play in our brain, including dopamine, adrenaline, and oxytocin, responsible for a number of sensations affecting our depths. For example, dopamine is involved in the pleasure mechanism and moves us to continue desiring intimacy with our partner.

Adrenaline comes into play in dangerous situations and makes us more alert and quick in our response to external incentives: because of him, even with the help of other exciting substances such as phiniletilamine or lornephrine, the constant sense of anxiety we experience, for example, in anticipation of our loved ones.

Oxytoline, on the other hand, is the love hormone and moves us to seek physical contact; it also has the effect that makes us more courageous and unhindered, much like when we take alcohol or drugs. We fall in love because feniletilamine stirs up desire, dopamine causes the sense of excitement of the fever of love and oxytocin fosters the bond, to ensure the long duration of the relationship.

We fall in love with brains when we fall in love, some Cortical areas of the brain go into effect (i.e. They are part of the crebral cortex, but also the most ancient subcortic areas from an evolutionary point of view - in the end, because love is a feeling connected to reproduction, is part of the antistic sphere of our species.

Studies have shown that the experience of love activates the areas of the brain associated with the reward system, which arouses the desire for an emotional connection and at the same time “disables some regions related to social judgment and other people's assessments. That is why love knows no obstacles and does not bow at social conventions.

What happens to the body? In the midst of a lot of <x0simtomma” of falling in love, the most obvious is the constant sense of heart rate associated with cold, sweaty hands and the sense of dry mouth, there is no saliva, which often suffers in moments of intense emotion. This time it is the blame for cortisol, the stress hormone secreted by kidney glands under possible risk conditions, Klas advises. Cortizol interacts with adrenaline and causes all those feelings, not always very pleasant, that a loved one surveyed knows well, especially in the early stages of “qasion”.

Unfortunately, these <x0mpsoptome”, which seems to be trying to reveal our sense more than we would like, they don't have a drug: the language of the body is not under our control and, unlike that verbal one, it's hard to lie.

Love is blind. It's not just a way of saying, but a self-defence mechanism that nature has set to protect the couple. Not surprisingly, one of the signs of interest in a potential partner is the expansion of an eye baby, which, among other things, is responsible for a less accurate and vague vision. When we are in love, we aim to design our dreams in our beloved well: we do not perceive his defects (or transform them into love reasons) and try not to show us.

According to a study by Virginia University psychologists, mainly males who lie and perform better than they really are, glorifying, for example, their businesses and skills. Women's little love stands above all else to make their partner feel calmer. In brief, the blindness of love has its good reasons and may push partners to take unusual attitudes and behaviors: people who are usually not too sensitive can find themselves inclined to a sudden swelling or a chronically frightened by becoming a bold and entrepreneurial subject.

And when time goes by... After several months, the chemistry of falling into love is trying to transform: the human organism simply cannot tolerate inequalities and overcomings for a long time and strives to restore a balance. At this point relations also change skin. But beware: The fact that the neurobiological whirlwind of first love decreases does not mean that love or relationship is over. At this point we enter the stable phase of the relationship, in which the fields of the brain in action are no longer the exciting ones, but the emotions.

The decline of love-extinction is inevitable, but it is a normal hormonal transformation that only weakens the “doping” effect of hormones. And at this point is the couple that should build a stable relationship, perhaps more peaceful, but certainly more balanced.