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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Laura Hampson

Love ‘drug’ to save failing marriages could soon be available

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A new drug that could help to save failing marriages could be available in “three to five years”, an Oxford University academic has said.

Dr Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University, spoke at the Cheltenham Science Festival and said that there are four chemicals in the human brain that explain why we feel love: dopamine, serotonin, beta endorphin and oxytocin.

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