Will the love hormone help you lose weight?

You know how when you’ve eaten dinner and you’re totally full but someone brings out the ice cream and your brain lights up? Suddenly, your appetite comes back and you eat it anyway. Oxytocin works by dimming that ice cream light, helping you resist the dessert. 

Oxytocin is a hormone that increases during child birth, is involved in mother-infant bonding, and promotes feelings of trust. That's why we call it the “love hormone”. Oxytocin has also been studied in its role for weight loss. It is a hypothalamic hormone that regulates eating and metabolism.

There’s a current Phase 2 study by National Institute of Health (NIH) of the effects of oxytocin for weight loss in teens. The results of another study show that oxytocin helps you eat less, lose weight, burn body fat and lose inches off your waist. It’s also shown to improve cholesterol levels and improve insulin sensitivity.

Oxytocin is easy to administer as a once a day nasal spray, but must be kept refrigerated. You will want your medication ordered from an FDA registered pharmacy to ensure safe, sterile, accurate and uncontaminated medications. At much higher doses this medication is used to induce labor, so do not take this if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. 

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References: 

Oxytocin for Weight Loss in Adolescents. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04551482
Lawson E. A. (2017). The effects of oxytocin on eating behavior and metabolism in humans. Nature reviews. Endocrinology, 13(12), 700-709. HTTPS://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2017.11

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5868755/

“Weight loss: How the 'love hormone' might help” https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324826#Obesity-rates-continue-to-rise