If you suffer from stress, high blood pressure, elevated cortisol in the blood, or other stress-related symptoms, you will be interested in oxytocin—a hormone which Dr. Kerstin Uväs-Moberg calls the calm and connection hormone.

Everyone! Everyone needs oxytocin. Everyone’s body was designed to release Oxytocin.

Some of us have experienced stress and trauma to the point that our body’s natural ability to create oxytocin is depleted.

News about autism is almost always controversial, but the latest report that has people abuzz—about researchers who have successfully treated some symptoms of the disorder using a nasal spray of oxytocin.