Do Pheromones really work?
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Yes they really do work here is a great article that explains a study that was done recently. I'm not sure about artifical phermones. You might want to email the people who did this study to find out more. Sorry.\n\n\n\n  When a Woman Smells Best\nBy Sara Goudarzi\nSpecial to LiveScience\nposted: 18 January 2006\n07:52 am ET\n \n \n\nThe scent of a woman is more attractive at certain times of the month, suggests a new study that had men sniffing women's armpit odor. \n\n"We were interested whether armpit odor changes across menstrual cycle," said study author Jan Havlieek of the Department of Anthropology at Charles University, Prague. "To test this, we asked a group of women to wear cotton pads in their armpits for 24 hours."\n\nThe women didn't wear perfumes, use deodorants, eat spicy or smelly foods, smoke, drink alcohol or use hormonal contraceptives such as the pill. Body odor was collected during three phases: menstrual (at the beginning); follicular (between the first day of menstruation and the onset of ovulation); and luteal (the fertile stage).\n\n"The fresh pads were subsequently rated for their attractiveness and intensity by a group of 42 men," Havlieek told LiveScience. \n\nThe most attractive smells, men said, were from the time between the first day of menstruation and ovulation. \n\nThe cycle\n\nThe typically 28-day menstrual cycle involves the physiological changes that occur in a woman to prepare for a possibility of pregnancy. It is controlled by the reproductive hormone system. \n\nA cycle is divided into four parts and starts on the first day of menstruation, which is the shedding of tissue and blood from the womb.  In the follicular phase, a dominant ovarian follicle—which is a sack that contains the ova, or egg—grows, becoming ready to ovulate. The mature egg is then released in the phase known as ovulation around day 12. The cycle ends with the fertile phase. \n\nAlthough many men would tell you they're always in the mood, Havlieek and colleagues discovered that men find odors during the follicular phase the most attractive and least intense. On the other hand, the highest intensity smells, corresponding to the lowest attractiveness for men, were found during the time of menstrual bleeding.\n\n "Traditionally it's believed that ovulation in human female is concealed and there are no changes in attractiveness across the cycle," Havlieek said.\n\nThe study is detailed in the January issue of the journal Ethology. \n\nFurther sniffing\n\nTwo other studies by different research teams came to similar conclusions. But those investigationsused T-shirts for odor sampling, "making it difficult to pinpoint the source of the smell," said Havlieek, whose team restricted sampling to armpits only. \n\nFinally, the attractiveness of women's faces also changes during the month.\n\nHavlieek's team found that facial images of women in the follicular phase—when the dominant ovarian follicle is getting ready to ovulate—are considered more attractive as compared to images taken in the luteal or fertile phase of the cycle.\n\nThe researchers hope to find out which chemical compounds are responsible for the odor changes across a woman's menstrual cycle
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it's not actually chemical reactions (well it could be related to how our bodies process another's pheromones), but it is more of the emotional connection, the physical attraction, etc.
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Your endochrine glands. It is your thyroid and adrenal glands that release pheromones and control their production.
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I have heard that it does work...
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its dose work so dont woory about . just make sure to get peur hoodia 100%
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No, I have found out in subsequent years that very nice people I know with families were really gay and they became happy only when they admitted they were gay. It was a shock to me, but they were the same nice people they always were, they were just born gay and tried to be like everyone else. Their brains are different.\n\nFor Gay Men, an Attraction to a\nDifferent Kind of Scent\n\nby Nicholas Wade\nPublished May 10, 2005, NYTimes.com\n\n\nUsing a brain imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual men respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that the gay men respond in the same way as women.\n\nThe new research may open the way to studying human pheromones, as well as the biological basis of sexual preference. Pheromones, chemicals emitted by one individual to evoke some behavior in another of the same species, are known to govern sexual activity in animals, but experts differ as to what role, if any, they play in making humans sexually attractive to one another.\n\nThe new research, which supports the existence of human pheromones, is reported in today's issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr. Ivanka Savic and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.\n\nThe two chemicals in the study were a testosterone derivative produced in men's sweat and an estrogen-like compound in women's urine, both of which have long been suspected of being pheromones.\n\nMost odors cause specific smell-related regions of the human brain to light up when visualized by a form of brain imaging that tracks blood flow in the brain and therefore, by inference, sites where neurons are active. Several years ago, Dr. Savic and colleagues showed that the two chemicals activated the brain in a quite different way from ordinary scents.\n\nThe estrogen-like compound, though it activated the usual smell-related regions in women, lighted up the hypothalamus in men. This is a region in the central base of the brain that governs sexual behavior and, through its control of the pituitary gland lying just beneath it, the hormonal state of the body.\n\nThe male sweat chemical, on the other hand, did just the opposite; it activated mostly the hypothalamus in women and the smell-related regions in men. The two chemicals seemed to be leading a double life, playing the role of odor with one sex and of pheromone with another.\n\nThe Swedish researchers have now repeated the experiment but with the addition of gay men as a third group. The gay men responded to the two chemicals in the same way as did women, Dr. Savic reports, as if the hypothalamus's response is determined not by biological sex but by the owner's sexual orientation.\n\nDr. Savic said that she had also studied gay women, but that the data were "somewhat complicated" and not yet ready for publication.\n\nThe finding is similar to a report in 1991 by Dr. Simon LeVay that a small region of the hypothalamus is twice as large in straight men as in women or gay men. The brain scanning technique used by the Swedish researchers lacks the resolution to see the region studied by Dr. LeVay, which is a mere millimeter or so across. But both findings suggest that the hypothalamus is organized in a way related to sexual orientation.\n\nThe new finding, if confirmed, would break ground in two important directions, those of human pheromones and human sexuality.\n\nMice are known to influence each other's sexual behavior through emission of chemicals that act like hormones on the recipient's brain and so are known as pheromones. Hopes by the fragrance industry, among others, of finding human pheromones were dashed several years ago when it emerged that a tiny structure in the nose through which mice detect many pheromones, the vomeronasal organ, is largely inactive in humans, having lost its nervous connection with the brain.\n\nResearchers interpreted that to mean that humans
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75% do....some smell good - depends on personal chemistry with your partner.  men's parts smell too...
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Thats a phylosophical question, and humanity have not been able to figure out a direct answer to that. And I think its the way its supposed to be. Otherwise humans would try to controll love!\n\nOfcourse we can talk of compartibility, physical, and psychological. We can talk about pheromones and sense of smell. But all of those are just mechanisms of falling in love. \n\nPersonally, for me, true love is caused by the hope of finding your soulmate. People who have found true love, are very fortunate, with out it, life is incomplete.
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Current science believes that pheromones have no recognizable scent - you wouldn't know you were smelling it, but are still sensed through the nose and registered in the brain.\n\nNot just opposite sexes can sense them, some scientists believe pheromones are what cause women that live together (like roommates) to adjust their periods until they happen at the same time.
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Humans have one or more pheromones (originally called "exaltolides"), presumed to exist for some years, but formally accepted to exist in 1986. They are strongest in women during the time period around ovulation and work subliminally (at concentrations too small to recognize as an odor). They are responsible for women who live together, as in a dorm, synchronizing their ovulatory cycles. Men emit some at a regular rate, but the importance of this is not understood. At stronger concentrations these pheromones have a musky, even offensive, smell - thus the prevalence of musk-type perfumes trying to mimic the effect. It is the buildup of exaltolides in the air that may cause the heightened social activities in everybody at a crowded cocktail party or a dance. The increased body temperature from physical activity will increase evaporation into the air.
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they do work...\n\nbut just like any other form of meeting/dating someone, it doesn't ALWAYS work, for some people it doesn't work at all.
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This is a perfectly normal occurance. What has happened is that you and your roomates cycles have synchronized with one another. The way in which this happens is the result of pheromones. Let me explain. A pheromone is any chemical or set of chemicals produced by a living organism that transmits a message to other members of the same species. There are alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones, sex pheromones, and many others that affect behavior or physiology. Although the existance of human pheromones is questioned, except in the case of menstrual synchronization. The best-studied case involves the synchronization of menstrual cycles among women based on unconscious odor cues (the so called McClintock effect, named after the primary investigator). This study states that there are two types of pheromone involved: "One, produced prior to ovulation, shortens the ovarian cycle, and the second, produced just at ovulation, lengthens the cycle". So as a result of the pheromonal cues, your periods will synchronize.
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Sometimes. I found that they only work on certain people. I went back to taking Vitamins for Hair.
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Doest it really make a difference?
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do u mean pher·o·mone  O my god don't try it at school http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/pheromone\n\nTry to be sweet and kind to her
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No, they don't really work.  It's utter horsesh*t.\n\nPut it out of your mind and live your life normally.
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it depends on the fragrance. i really like "touch" but some of the others can smell wierd.  if you find the one you really you like the most, and use a little (it will be awful it's too strong) then some women may react. not like fight each other, but they may follw the smell(a short distance), and if you are hott you will get a little flirt action... maybe.