Is Your Oxytocin Running Low?

Name: Is Your Oxytocin Running Low?
Uploaded: 2025-02-07T17:00:32+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this short monologue, the speaker explains that the hormone oxytocin can be produced by the gut bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri. Because L. reuteri is…

7 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker explains that the hormone oxytocin can be produced by the gut bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri. Because L. reuteri is highly sensitive to antibiotics, a course of antibiotics can dramatically reduce a person’s endogenous oxytocin production. To restore oxytocin levels, the speaker prepares homemade yogurt inoculated with L. reuteri and adds it to daily breakfast items such as smoothies or yogurt bowls. The speaker reports a personal transformation, describing a shift from feeling virtually oxytocin‑deficient to feeling “thrumming” with oxytocin after regularly consuming the probiotic yogurt.

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What's interesting is that oxytocin is produced by a gut bacteria, Lactobacillus reuteri, and reuteri is very sensitive to antibiotics. So if you've had antibiotics, you've likely killed off most or all of the reuteri, which means you're a low oxytocin producer. And the way that I reconstitute my oxytocin stores is that I make my own homemade yogurt with Lactobacillus reuteri. And that's what I put in my morning smoothies or my yogurt bowl with my fresh berries or, and bananas or whatever I'm eating for breakfast. And I went from having almost no, none, probably no oxytocin to now being just thrumming with it.