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You've heard the expression, every cloud has a silver lining?  Well, how about every silver lining has a cloud? A new study has found that the very same hormone that helps us love also helps us lie. Say what?   Oxytocin - the "love" hormone produced by the body to encourage bonding - may also help us to lie -- but here's the silver lining.  To the benefit of our group. Oxytocin -- which has sometimes been confused (at least by me) for oxycodone, a way to curb pain (and get high) --   has been demonstrated in research as "promoting bonding in couples and between mothers and babies, and is also thought to drive people's impulse to be sociable," according to medicalnewtoday.com. The more oxytocin a person has, the more empathy and trust they will have, as well as lower social  anxiety  and fear response. Oxytocin can also stimulate aggression, if it is required for reasons of defense, medicalnewstoday reports. Oxytocin can also keep men monoga...

It sounds like it should be a song.  "Love Hormone Number 9."  But no, it's not music by the Clovers (the Clovers ?) but an actual part of our body that may go missing when we're kids that can cause us to become addicts. Sounds a little too out-there for me but studies have found, " Addictive behavior such as drug and alcohol abuse could be associated with poor development of the so-called "'ove hormone' system in our bodies during early childhood. The discovery came from  research into oxytocin, known as the "love hormone" or "bonding drug" because of its important role in enhancing social interactions, maternal behavior and partnership, the Web site reports. "We know that newborn babies already have levels of oxytocin in their bodies, and this helps to create the all-important bond between a mother and her child," newswise quotes  Dr Femke Buisman-Pijlman from the University of Adelaide's  School of Medical ...