By now, you've probably heard of the love molecule. Italian researchers say the molecule known as the nerve growth factor (NGF) makes your heart beat faster, gives you those butterflies in the stomach and the sense of euphoria when you fall in love. They say it only lasts about a year.
Ambivablog has read further and finds that NGF and Love Makes All Things New.
Could it be the Love itself along with the NGF has the power to renew and remake us all the way through life up to the gate of death? Can any new passionate attraction or friendship that we love do the same?
Some Stanford researchers have discovered a new type of lock-and-key mechanism that provides a critical step in reproducing nerve growth factor.
NGF and its family members called neurotrophins not only control the development of the nervous system in the embryo but also the maintenance of nervous tissue and neural transmission in the adult.
NGF plays a role in many nervous system problems such as neural degeneration in aging, Alzheimer's disease and neural regeneration in spinal cord injuries and other damage to neural tissue. It also may factor into mood and other psychological disorders.
It's the key to my or to anyone's heart that opens to Love.