Dr. Ben Rein

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The Liz Moody Podcast · Stanford Neuroscientist: THIS Is The Secret To Living Longer (It's Not Diet Or Exercise) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

You can tell at the beginning of a relationship, it's like, this is probably like not gonna be my partner for life, you know?

Or this could be, you know, they say like, when you know, you know, right?

It literally may reflect the amount of oxytocin your body is producing,

And the more that you have, the more you're going to stick together.

In the 90s, these two scientists, Dr. Bartels and Zeki, they put up this ad that said, are you truly madly in love?

If so, come be in our study.

And so they recruited these people who were in love, put them in the brain scanner and told them to think about their partner.

And they compared those brain scans with other people who just thought about like a friend or like a platonic relationship.

And what they found was that thinking about their lover activated this certain group of brain areas and they looked into it, tried to figure it out.

Turns out those brain areas are all the areas that express oxytocin receptors.

And so falling in love

recruits this kind of network of brain centers that collectively probably make up this feeling of being in love.

But what's really, really interesting is they did another study later where they did the same thing, but for mothers and their children.

And so they had mothers think about their kid or think about like one of their kid's friends.

And they found overlap with the romantic love brain areas, but a few different brain areas.

But also they were heavily involved with oxytocin.

And so it's fascinating to think about that.

Like same thing, if you put someone in a brain scanner and you ask them to think about someone and you look at like the activation of these areas, you can probably predict like who is that person to them?

Is it a child?

Is it a romantic partner?

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