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How Falling in Love Physically Changes Our Genes

Falling in Love Changes Humans physically on Every Level — Including the Genes. Here’s How it Happens

Joe Duncan
Moments
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3 min readJan 28, 2019

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We’re much like the very atoms that we’re composed of, you and I — us humans. Anyone who remembers science class remembers that electrons repel one another quite fiercely, keeping a comfortable distance between themselves and other electrons. But certain outside forces can cause electrons to mutually attract, as if the two electrons had been put under some spell and suddenly fell in love. Such is the way with human endeavors.

From a scientific perspective, we understand the fundamental ingredients of love, the basic building blocks of how it happens, but we don’t understand everything — nor can we predict instances of love with any sort of accuracy. The most detailed computer algorithms of today, ones which can map the Genome and display the light coming into our atmosphere from the entire visible universe seemingly effortlessly, cannot predict the seeming random nature of this very human phenomenon.

The puzzle is so complicated because of it’s magnitude. Falling in love actually changes human beings on a genetic level, researchers are now coming to find out. A study was conducted featuring 47 women falling in love, to measure the changes in…

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Joe Duncan
Moments

I’ve worked in politics for fourteen years and counting. Editor for Sexography: Medium.com/Sexography | The Science of Sex: http://thescienceofsex.substack.com