WASHINGTON - For women, apparently there’s nothing like the smell of a man’s sweat.Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, faster heart rate and other effects.
They said the study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, represents the first direct evidence that people secrete a scent that influences the hormones of the opposite sex.
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The study focused on androstadienone, considered a male chemical signal. Previous research had established that a whiff of it affected women’s mood, sexual and physiological arousal and brain activation. Its impact on hormones was less clear.
Every year in Men's Health there is at least one article about "what smells sexy on a man" and reports that women enjoy apparently the smell of his sweat more than his cologne. Now there's evidence for it. You don't even need to buy anything to get the "Axe effect."
I should note that in the articles the author usually makes certain to distinguish between "sweat" and "body odor."
Another hurdle to exercise: embarrassment
Fear of looking fat, silly prevents many people from breaking a sweat
Whatever you focus on or whatever you are thinking about affects the way you feel.
If you focus on the bad, the unpleasant, the gloomy, you start to physically feel bad.
If you focus on good things, take inventory for why you're grateful, think of happy or funny times, you will feel that way too.
Want a good workout? You better believe itMost of the noisy, seemingly incessant inner dialogue that goes on in our heads is just a hindrance from living in the present with awareness.
People who think of activities as exercise gain more benefitsPeople who think they're getting a good workout obtain more benefits than those who perform the exact same activities but don't think what they are doing is exercise, according to the findings of a study by Harvard researchers. These results support the idea that the benefits of exercise may involve a placebo effect.
The consciousness of "self" is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action [6]
*This is actually a Zen or Chan maxim which means to "be in the moment" and NOT be distracted by your own thought process. The Zen quote is: "If you seek it, you will NOT find it". The "Western" counterpart to this is the term "Being in the Zone".
2 comments:
Awww....i have to agree about men's sweat! Chemical research hasn't tapped into one thing, the reaction of women towards male sweat is the same with the chemical reaction of gay men! Hahahahahaha!
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