Research

Sexually Showy Birds Age Faster

I only had to see the title of this article to know that I should post it here smiley 10 years of research on a beautiful but endangered bird finds a direct link between male sexual showiness, aging, and sperm vitality. A video of a display is included smiley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14388541

Antisocial Behavior

This is just a short news byte of some research regarding marriage and antisocial behavior:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40536735/ns/health-behavior/

Here's the research paper:
http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2010/12/b58978f2-85ae-413a-8ded-065c...

One can't help be wonder if Pornography addiction is involved, but the research makes no mention of it.

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Witherspoon research on pornography

I dunno if you guys have seen this, Norman Doidge has a video on the website - Acquiring Tastes and Loves: What Neuroplasticity Teaches Us About Sexual Attraction and Love

http://www.socialcostsofpornography.com/videos.php#

Looks interesting

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Can Newborn Neurons Prevent Addiction?

Can Newborn Neurons Prevent Addiction?

Blocking the birth of new neurons helps hook rats on cocaine
By Kristina Rehm

Mind Matters - March 30, 2010

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Tracking dopamine activity in the human brain

Maybe it will soon be possible to confirm what happens to dopamine and dopamine receptor activity after orgasm and sexual satiety.

ALERT: Dopamine-based MRI Sensor could Revolutionize Conventional Brain Imaging
April 3, 2010

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Think Twice How the Guts Second Brain Influences Mood and WellBeing

This isn't about sex, but as this forum tends to talk about restoring balance using other techniques, I thought this might be of general interest.

The emerging and surprising view of how the enteric nervous system in our bellies goes far beyond just processing the food we eat

Conclusions before evidence

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Below is an email I sent to a friend. Marnia encouraged me to post it. The point of the email is that science is always overturning old scientific dogmas, and that stating "there is no research on something" is not the same as saying "there is no evidence" or "that can't be true."

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When I started teaching physiology, I noticed that huge sections of the physiology texts were devoted to certain subjects - like the function of hemoglobin, and very little about other subjects - like cortisol’s actual function in the stress response.

Fertilizing the realizations of this site; pt. 2

Recently I decided I want to try "the masters cleanse", which is basically a 10 day total body detox program. I have a friend who has done it, and he boasts amazing results.

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