Valentine's Day is a super fun time of the year when we all pay far too much for flowers and chocolate It's also a time for weird science myths driven by the ever-churning media demand for contentpic.twitter.com/05ipQDGi7b
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In the blog, I looked at a couple of the common tropes - chocolate = love and "get more oxytocin" - and talk about why they are not necessarily that rosy
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There's probably some benefit to the activities that generate oxytocin, but it's much more complicated than a "love chemical"pic.twitter.com/ItJqlhaxfL
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Chocolate is tasty, but definitely not a miracle for your love lifepic.twitter.com/BDavuN5B3y
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As ever, the science is complex, and if you are reading silly headlines you are probably being misinformed Happy Valentine's







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