Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year

[nachovx]

ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.

The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.

The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships.

But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level as that of the other groups.

The Italian researchers, publishing their study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, said it was not clear how falling in love triggers higher levels of NGF, but the molecule clearly has an important role in the "social chemistry" between people at the start of a relationship.

[Cenobitez]

ummm it needs a cooler name like viagnergrotor or maybe rohipnergronol

Not sure if that should be marketted like Viagra or Rohipnol, but you can bet ya ass its suddenly gonna be finding its way into womens drinks.

[fudgeflaps]

So that's the name of the bastard chemical that has me head over heels for the first three months, the 'honeymoon' period, only for all subsequent interest to die off!!

NGF, eh? I just thought it was a combination of high production of dopamine and endorphins......

[Marino]

Well I don't know about all that. I have been with my misses for four years, living and working side by side. and when we ain't fighting we are fucking like newbies.
In fact only last night I just caught a glimpse of her as she was in her panties, my knob shot up and I lept on her like a man possesed for a good five minutes. Yes I know five minutes is not a long time, but you know what it's like sometimes you just have to do your thing.