When we consider the people we're interacting with on a daily basis, if we want as many people around us who make us feel safe and make us feel love, you know, when we have people in our lives who are doing the opposite, that has enormous impact on our physical and mental health.

Check your circle and that we have choices in our life generally, right, in terms of who we

bring into our life and who we choose to spend a lot of time with. And I think it's just a

good reminder that the people we surround ourselves with impacts our health in such profound ways.

Emily, happy Valentine's Day. I love that we get to have this spicy combo today.

So we're going to start with an overview of how love impacts kind of a neurobiology and physiology and whatnot.

And then we'll get into kind of whoop-specific data.

There are kind of three neurobiological players in the game of

love, your brain, your hormonal levels, and your vagus nerve, which, of course, connects the brain

to the rest of the body. So we're going to kind of start by breaking all of that down. So,

Emily, what is happening in the brain and in the body when we experience sexual intimacy?

We'll just jump in.

All right.

So there's this whole symphony of hormones and fireworks.

Your dopamine's going to spike.

It's going to give you this like rush of pleasure motivation.

Oxytocin, which is your love hormone, is going to enhance bonding and trust.

Then endorphins, which are kind of feel good hormones, they're going to flood in.

They act as like natural painkillers, natural mood boosters.

We also release those when we work out in general.

And then towards the end of sexual intimacy, you release prolactin,

which promotes that like satisfaction feeling and helps promote bonding.

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