and that whatever is going on it's more like some kind of low-level global setting gets tuned weirdly. since that setting is apparently affected by oxytocin, maybe it's something like "degree to which other people and self seem like friendly humans" but who knows
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also this little snippet from the wikipedia article makes me very curious to know whether oxytocin can reduce gender dysphoria 👀
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"[I]n males classified as having “insecure” attachments, oxytocin increased the level of attachment security in the majority of participants."
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
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back to the reddit guy. he talks about getting tremors from memories of having sex with his wife! if someone had taught him how to do somatic experiencing at this exact moment he might've had a really good time shaking
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by day 8 he's had so much sex with his wife that he's feeling "drained, sexually" although by day 9 "wife seems kinda disappointed when [the sex is] over" lmao i'm so happy for them
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day 9 "It's like i could speak NTese" - he's not only accessing his feelings but effortlessly describing them to other people in a way they can understand. also empathy: "can see how the other people is feeling and anticipate their feelings"
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day 10 "a very slow muscle relaxation event" - he's describing undoing muscle armoring from C-PTSD!!! "severe muscle knots... all over the region in my neck and shoulders and shoulder-blades"
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day 11 "gaining new abilities with regard to sensing touch in my peripheral limbs," "flexibility is off the charts and I am doing stuff that would make yoga people impressed, but it's not yoga; I'm just trying to move to a position that relieves the knots"
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i've been throwing this link around in the replies but just to have it in the main thread: here's a place where you can buy a $50 oxytocin nasal spray, i have already bought one for a friend, if you try it PLEASE REPORT BACK
science.bio/product-tag/ox
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like seriously if you try oxytocin i wanna hear about it, positive or negative results or whatever, DM me, i'll be checking my DM requests
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there is apparently also a whole medical literature about oxytocin therapy for autism already that i am probably not qualified to deep dive into. found a random site that claims "research shows mixed results"
raisingchildren.net.au/autism/therapi
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(but personally i am much more interested in oxytocin for C-PTSD than for autism as such, and there's also apparently a whole literature about oxytocin and PTSD)
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one negative report about the science.bio spray via DMs so far :/ unclear if it was fake or went bad or there were other things going on. i’m gonna do a follow-up thread where i wildly speculate sometime today
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hmm nuts, from the SSC subreddit. i do have a wild speculation about why RCTs might not be a good idea here specifically
reddit.com/r/slatestarcod
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speculative followup
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so now that i've had some time to calm down a bit let me do a slightly more sober thread where i speculate about what might have been going on with oxytocin guy and what kind of sense self-experimentation with oxytocin might or might not make twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
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suggestion in the DMs to experiment with high-dose N-acetyl cysteine or more speculatively acetyl-L-carnitine
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That purchase link has SOLD OUT and the store has announced they're closing. Got any more sources? I struggle with all the same stuff as that reddit guy. Follow me so we can DM.
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i messed up the threading but someone sent me a canadian link too and apparently walmart sells it?
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alright jeez that site is apparently sold out of the nasal spray so uh here's a different site linked by a friend, which i haven't tried and know nothing about and can't directly vouch for
canada.direct-peptides.com/product/oxytoc
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