How can chemistry speak of love?

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Oxytocin my love © Humensciences

By: Caroline Lachowsky

49 mins

What is love ?

Why is it a hormone, oxytocin, which holds one of the keys to the mystery of love but also of attachment?

How can chemistry also speak of love? 

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Are we talking about love, chemistry and love alchemy?

Why and how do we become attached (and to whom?) From birth and throughout our lives?

How to shed light on the fires of love and the mysteries of sexual attraction, but also of friendship and affection?

And if it was on the side of our internal chemistry that we had to look for answers to this impossible question: what is love?

With

Marcel Hibert

, professor of chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Strasbourg, where he directed the Laboratory of therapeutic innovation for twenty years, for his book

Oxytocine mon amour

 published by Humensciences.

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