The secret of lasting love
If this Valentine’s Day you’re not as ‘loved up’ as you’d like – or used to be – then take heart. It could be down to your brain molecule behaviour, which could be put right very easily.The Love Molecule
Phenylethylamine or PEA has been coined the “love molecule” by scientists because it is the neurohormone that flows in abundance when we fall in love. It is also the molecule that flows when we are calm, happy, joyful or in deep concentration and significantly, PEA metabolism decreases when we are depressed.*
Falling in Love
When falling in love, most people are unaware that this heady time opens us up and gives us access to our deepest feelings. It also presents an opportunity to move us along life’s journey and learn more about ourselves. As we begin to relate intimately with another human being and start sharing our emotions all goes swimmingly. But often, and suddenly, we discover some uncomfortable emotions we were previously unaware of.
When this happens, we tend to back away from these difficult emotions and up go the barriers to protect ourselves. Our deepest emotions are no longer accessible to anyone, including ourselves. Intimacy is lost and our joy can turn into apathy. More often than not we blame our partner (our once beloved!) for making us feel so bad and it is at this point that many couples let the relationship or marriage go.
Falling out of Love
In physiological terms, when we shut ourselves off from our uncomfortable emotions, we bring our emotional evolutionary process to a halt and our PEA output declines. Since PEA is involved in so many “positive pathways” ranging from motivation, drive and learning, when we run short, we start to feel down and this can then lead to us falling out of love. Instead of shutting out our emotions (and lover), we need to acknowledge the problem lies within us not with our partner. But as the problem lies with us, so too does the solution.
Eat up your PEAs
We know that taking PEA can promote better mood, relieve stress and help with moderate to serious depression*. And it seems that those people who work through emotional hiccups manage to reach a place where they simply feel good just by being alive. Their PEA flows freely and continues to flow. This is the place that philosophers encourage us to find deep inside ourselves: to find our self-love. If however, we are unable to go within, then we are “stuck” – psychologically speaking.
Taking Klamath blue-green algae has been shown to open people up to their deeper emotions helping them move along life’s journey and become more positive.
The only known food to contain significant quantities of PEA is Klamath blue-green algae dried gently to preserve its naturally high levels. Find this type of Klamath (AFA Fresh) in vitalLIFE at Simplyvital.com - 60 capsules cost £12.00.
* Supplementation with 10-60mg of PEA was able to cure 60% of clinically diagnosed depressions (source: SABELLI, H., et al. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1996 Spring 8:2, 168-71).