How hormones affects us

So-called “hormones of happiness”

Dopamine: anticipation and reward

It motivates you to make efforts in order to get

something you desire

Example: dopamine releases when an alcoholic

sees a bar
Oxytocin: human bonding
Serotonin: feeling significant and important
Endorphin: masking pain or discomfort
Men, women relationships and
hormones
 Love – to be high on drugs?
Helen Fisher: romantic love can be broken down into three
categories. Each type is characterized by its own set of hormones. 

Testosterone and estrogen drive lust; (need to reproduce,

testosterone increases libido in just about everyone)

Dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin create attraction

(emotions); dopomine levels rise during the attraction phase of romantic
love, causing euphoric feelings and tolerance for lack of sleep.

Oxytocin and vasopressin mediate attachment.

Too much dopamine in a relationship can cause unhealthy emotional dependence on our partners,
addictions to food or drugs.
And while healthy levels of oxytocin help us bond and feel warm and fuzzy towards our companions,
elevated oxytocin result in oversensitivity to the emotions of others.
• 1- Stress relief - Sex lowers both stress levels and blood pressure.
• According to many studies, after intercourse our bodies produces double the usual rate of
prolactin (the so-called milk hormone) and that amount is significantly more than we
produce after masturbation.

• 2- Sex Boosts Immunity 3- Burns Calories

• 4- Improves Heart Health
• According to researchers from England elderly people who have sex at least once a week
did not suffer from a stroke in old age. They showed that having sex twice or more a week
reduced the risk of heart attack by half in comparison to those who had sex once a week.

• 5- Better Self-Esteem
• Sexual activity leading to orgasm raises the level of the hormone oxytocin This hormone
raises the level of self-confidence and strengthens the bonds between life partners.

• 6- Turn Down Pain

• As sex contributes to the increase of the oxytocin hormone, it also increases the
endorphins hormone, which is a  hormones that produces feelings of pleasure, and can
soothe those pains.

• 7- Deeper Intimacy
• Having sex and orgasms boosts levels of the oxytocin, which helps people bond and build
trust. In a study of 59 women, researchers checked their oxytocin levels before and after
the women hugged their partners. The women had higher oxytocin levels if they had more
physical contact with their partner. Higher oxytocin levels have also been linked with a
feeling of generosity.

• 8- Better Sleep
• oxytocin released during orgasm also promotes sleep, research shows.
Nowadays are people still capable of loving
and being in a relationship?
 Testosterone
• A hormone of providers and protectors
• vital to a man’s health
• muscle strength
• muscle mass,
• stamina,
• strength,
• energy,
• libido,
• memory,

• A testosterone deficiency in men can cause fatigue, mood swings, low libido, and irritability. This
hormone starts to decline in men around 35 years old, causing an imbalance between testosterone and
estrogen. Too much testosterone can cause aggression, depression, impotence, and excessive libido.
• An average man has to have 30 times more testosterone than average women to get up on stage.
• Solving problems (fixing things) rise up testosterone.
• Low testosterone – depression, prostate censer, heart diseases.

• Men have estrogen too, it’s just in much smaller quantities than women, so it plays less of a role.
• Testosterone is also necessary in proper balance for women. A deficiency of testosterone can also have
negative effects on women, including low energy, decreased libido and well-being.
Testosterone is also made by,
and is important to, women.
A woman's testosterone is
used to help make estrogen.
Some studies have shown
that higher levels of
testosterone are associated
with increased sexual desire
and sexual behavior in
women.

Dopamine
• Happiness
• Passion
• Love. Have met someone
• new.
• Dopamine stimulates testosterone in men. And for men
testosterone keep stress level down.
 Stress. How to maintain
• Men
• And for men testosterone keep stress level down. Low testosterone – depression, prostate
censer, heart diseases.
• Men – under big stress men have a stronger emotional reaction. Big stress for men – a
problem you can’t solve and can’t forget. When a men feels powerless his testosterone
converts into estrogen and floods his brain with fear and anger.

• Women
• Women – under moderate stress women’s brains have 8 times more blood flow to the
emotional part of the brain than men (to hippocampus - memory).
• Women relax – they go to the right (emotional) part of their brain that stimulates estrogen
and oxytocin is the hormone that copes with stress (babies, roses, hugs, allows women to
have climax in the bedroom).
• Women at workplaces – testosterone gets produced. USA studies show that average level of
stress is twice as high as men, and 4 times higher at home. It’s possible to lower the level of
stress in the relationships by learning new techniks of creating oxytocin (communication, to
see her, to hear her).
• Oxytocin – feeling that there’s planty of time. So if women don’t find good life/work
balance it’ll affect their health.
 Testosterone stimulating Oxytocin stimulating activities
activities

Urgency, emergency, competitive Nurturing hormone

environment. Sharing, caring.

A dead-line hormone. The feeling

of having not enough time.

- men have to reason first and - women check their feelings first
then check it up with their because it has access to their
feelings. intuition.

Medical University of Vienna May 18, 2017

This study has now shown that treating the female partners with oxytocin not only enhances their own
sexuality but also that of their male partners. Since the effect was found not only in the group receiving the
active agent but also in the placebo group, it is once again thought to be triggered by the improved
communication within the relationship.

The results were just as good in the placebo group as they were in the group of couples where the women
were given oxytocin. Says Bayerle-Eder: "This is of major importance for all sex therapists. It is not just the
medication that helps but rather, and more importantly, the functional social interaction within a
relationship."