Falling in love is a wild process - but what is going on in your brain and body? And could we ever boil love down to a drug?

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Attraction & Spark
3:46 - Obsession
7:09 - Honeymoon phase
9:58 - Bonding
12:20 - Love = complicated
14:15 - Outro

SOURCES
Love drugs: https://www.newscientist.com/article/...
Blind date heart rates: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...
Serotonin transporter levels: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10405...
Serotonin levels: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/...
Resting in love brain: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
Newly wed brain scanning: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
Why we have romantic love review: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...