Beyoncé didn't know how on target she was when she sang "Drunk In Love." Because if research published in the PNAS journal told us that oxytocin, "the hormone of love", reduced the effects of alcohol, neuroscientists at the University of Birmingham (England), they , assert that the behavior of a person in love can be similar to that of a drunk person…
In their study published in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review, they explain that oxytocin, which ok makes us feel great, has a dark side, since it would sometimes develop a lot (even a little too much…) our empathy, our altuism, our taste for risk and would lift our inhibitions a lot. A bit like… the components of alcohol! Haaa, is that why they say love makes you blind ("Flouuuuu de toiiiiii")?
"I don't think, however, that oxytocin will ever be used as an alternative to alcohol at parties or dinners," humorously concludes Dr. Gillespie, who participated in the study, before adding that these findings could help to develop new treatments, for emotional dependence, for example.
