Posts by Alexander Wilson13

Anonymous said:Hey everyone,

Not sure if this is the right sub, so sorry if I'm in the wrong place.

Basically, I'm looking for a good website or a book to learn more about hormones, preferably in English. Maybe something at a college level? If anyone has a PDF, feel free to shoot me a link via DM.

Thanks in advance 🙏

Hey! There's a book that covers everything in detail called "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine." It’s pretty pricey, though—runs about $333. You can find plenty of cheaper foreign textbooks on Amazon. If I think of anything else, I'll let you know! 😉

Risperidone is a dopamine antagonist, if I recall correctly, and Oxazepam is a benzodiazepine that boosts GABA activity. So, neither of them are MAO-inhibitors. 🙂

You can take them orally during chemo, though injections are definitely more effective if you're dealing with nausea. Just make sure to clear it with your doctor before starting anything! Good luck. 👍

Gary James88 said:It’s a heavy, complicated question for any field of science, let alone psychology, but there's probably a grain of truth in everyone's take here.
Studying love scientifically is a nightmare because there isn't even a consensus on what behaviors or feelings actually define it; you can't really measure something that has no fixed definition. Plus, you have to look at it from so many angles—from neurobiology and individual behavior down to how it functions for the species as a whole.

Take falling in love, for instance. That's just one slice of the pie, and even that is messy. It's that feeling where you're obsessed with someone and everything they do seems perfect. Researchers point to phenylethylamine (PEA) as the main driver there. You've also got serotonin shifting your mood, dopamine flagging a potential reward, and norepinephrine pushing you to act. There's likely more going on under the hood, too. But PEA doesn't last forever—maybe 18 months to three years—at which point other hormones like oxytocin and vasopressin kick in to handle the long-term commitment side of things.

From an evolutionary standpoint, love serves a purpose: it signals commitment, which is basically a way to ensure a stable environment for raising offspring.

You could write entire libraries on this subject...😛

I caught an interesting lecture on this once... there was a study showing that the brain processes are virtually identical whether you show cocaine to an addict in withdrawal or show a photo of a crush to someone in the middle of that "acute" honeymoon phase. In both scenarios, those exact same neurotransmitters fire up in the same parts of the brain.🙂

Carl Anderson76 said:Do you think some people are just genetically wired to be loyal—you know, built for that family-oriented lifestyle—or is it mostly just social conditioning and hormones? Or maybe the hormones themselves are hardwired by our DNA? I was reading about animal behavior the other day, and it's wild how some species stay with one partner for their entire lives while others just move from one mate to the next constantly...

Everyone is born with their own unique genetic blueprint—roughly 30,000 different genes, if I recall correctly. However, how those genes actually manifest depends heavily on a person's environment and upbringing. For instance, if you grow up in a stable household, you’re much more likely to seek out that same stability later in life. There are studies involving identical twins separated at birth who ended up as complete opposites—one becoming a career criminal and the other a model citizen.

As for the link between genetics and hormones, most hormones are peptides, and every peptide is coded by a specific gene. Essentially, a gene triggers the production of a specific hormone, which then goes on to influence behavior in various ways. That's the simplest way to put it. 🙂

Matthew Gomez3 said:I could really use some help here... I just got my blood and urine results back and was hoping someone could make sense of them... My bloodwork looks fine, everything seems within the normal range, but my urine results are...
Acetone: 2 ref: 0
Urobilinogen: 16??????? ref: 1:1

I did this because I might be pregnant, since my period is already two months late... My doctor prescribed me Yasmin and told me I wasn't pregnant, but I've taken four tests and they were all negative, hm... I'm totally lost... why is it so late???
Hmm, what could it be... and why is that number 16?????
I don't want to wait until my next appointment, so I wanted to get your thoughts first...
Thanks in advance

Having urobilinogen that high usually points toward either hemolysis (red blood cell breakdown) or an issue with your liver. It’s pretty strange though, considering your bloodwork came back normal... Did you get your liver enzymes checked (like AST or ALT)? Elevated liver enzymes would be the first sign that something is actually wrong.