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Oxytocin for Perimenopause: The "Love Hormone" That May Help Libido, Mood, and Vaginal Atrophy
Oxytocin is a nine–amino-acid peptide hormone produced in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland. Most of us learned about it in two contexts: labor and breastfeeding. Synthetic oxytocin (Pitocin) has been used clinically for more than fifty years to induce contractions and support milk letdown. What we didn't learn in medical school is that oxytocin receptors are found throughout the body — in the brain, the cardiovascular system, the gut, the bones, the skin, and the vaginal epithelium. This receptor distribution is the reason oxytocin has been investigated for an unusually wide range of conditions: chronic pain, social anxiety, postpartum depression, autism spectrum traits, gastroparesis, weight regulation, and — most relevant to us — sexual function and vaginal tissue health in women.