Oxytocin hormone is both a neurotransmitter in the brain and a hormone in the body. Oxytocin hormone is released to varying degrees via eye contact, hugging, touching, and male orgasm as well as female orgasm. Oxytocin hormone is the chemical that facilitates relaxation, social recognition, empathy, healthy risk behaviors, generosity, bonding, and the need to defend our loved ones. Oxytocin hormone is the seat of trust—from soldiers in the battle field, to fuzzy little prairie voles scampering about, to human beings walking down the wedding isle, oxytocin hormone plays an important role in our ability to maintain healthy risk behaviors as well as healthy psychological boundaries.

How to raise oxytocin levels.
Touching (anywhere on the body) causes a rise in oxytocin hormone levels. Kissing promotes a rise in oxytocin hormone levels. We can raise our oxytocin level by initiating different forms of biological and psychological arousal, including a rush of endorphins (the body's natural pain relievers) as well as a spike in testosterone levels (the hormone that kick-starts sex drive). Oxytocin is naturally released in response to a variety of physical stimuli including skin-to-skin contact, uterine or cervical stimulation during sex, and nipple stimulation in lactating women eye contact. It stimulates milk ejection during lactation, uterine contraction during birth, and is released during sexual orgasm in both men and women.

• Oxytocin hormone is produced as a result of touch
• Oxytocin hormone causes feelings of intimacy and closeness
• Oxytocin hormone triggers powerful orgasms

Men and women in committed relationships experience
enhanced oxytocin hormone production.

Oxytocin hormone is a peptide chain comprised of nine amino acids. Oxytocin hormone is released from centrally projecting oxytocin neurons as well as “expressed” by neurons in the brain, eyes, gonads and spinal cord. Oxytocin hormone does some of its best work in a parts of the brain called the amygdala and the hypothalamus. The pituitary is a fundamental source of oxytocin hormone release. Oxytocin is also released by general exocytosis. Buy Oxytocin here.