Is the "Mama Bear" Response Triggered by a Hormone?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Many of us have felt an instinctual form of protective aggression in situations where one's family unit seems threatened. Did you know that this response is caused by a hormone known as Oxytocin? Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen lay out what oxytocin is and why it's so important you have enough of it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Tanna Aeman. Here we teach you how to win the fight for your brain to defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD, and addictions. |
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi. Hey baby. |
| 0:59.0 | We're holding hands for people who can't actually see the podcast. |
| 1:05.6 | And it's because we're gonna talk about bonding. |
| 1:10.1 | An oxytocin. |
| 1:11.8 | The cuttle hormone, which is, it's actually what you give women to cause |
| 1:19.7 | contractions to have the baby. So Patosin is the synthetic form, right, |
| 1:23.8 | or it's the medicinal form to increase contractions. |
| 1:28.6 | So it's what helps women go into labor, |
| 1:31.0 | it's what helps them breastfeed, it's what when you're, like I remember when |
| 1:35.5 | Chloe was born, I still remember the three days after she was born this bizarre |
| 1:40.2 | euphoria coming over me where I just, literally didn't sleep I just stared at her |
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