Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, secrets Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute

Friday, and it's Valentine's, the season of love. I thought it would be so fun to teach you guys

about attraction and pheromones. Is it love at first sight, or is it just your pheromones talking

with lust and love and desire and Valentine's right around the corner? Is it love at first sight or is it just your pheromones talking?

With lust and love and desire and Valentine's right around the corner,

we can't help but wonder about the science behind falling in love.

Many scientists believe that the hormones in your body, known as pheromones,

are the real reason that you're attracted to some people more than others. So let's find out in this five-minute Friday, is it truly love at first sight

or is it your body chemistry and your pheromones making you feel this way? First of all, what are

pheromones? To put it bluntly, pheromones are a type of hormone. And while most hormones are

produced internally, pheromones are actually secreted externally outside of the body. Because of this,

they're referred to as ecto hormones, which are hormones that also trigger behavior changes in another individual.

And pheromones were first discovered in female moths, but they also exist in other animal species,

and they're linked to reproduction. So functions like finding your mate, marking your territory,

and interacting between a mom and her offspring.

Fremones kind of have four big main categories. There are releases, primers, signallers, and

modulators. So, chemical hormones that trigger release, priming, signaling, and modulation.

Releasers cause an immediate response in the recipient's

behavior and these are typically linked to sexual attraction. Imagine you walk into the nightclub

and you're looking super good and your pheromones are triggering all the men and all the girls

to turn around and take a look amazing that's a

releaser primers primers cause a change of developmental effects and effect functions like your

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