{"id":41173,"date":"2016-06-23T00:52:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/are-you-hardwired-to-be-perpetually-single\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T00:52:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T00:52:45","slug":"are-you-hardwired-to-be-perpetually-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/are-you-hardwired-to-be-perpetually-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Hardwired to Be Perpetually Single?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"field-body\">\n<h3>RELATED: Here\u2019s Why the Less You Have Sex, the Less You Actually Want It<\/h3>\n<p>For the study, researchers took samples of the 121 study participants\u2019 saliva to test for levels of methylation on the oxytocin gene. What they found was that folks who had a more methylated version of oxytocin were also more likely to report being less social. These people also had less activity and volume in the areas of their brain that are linked to sociability. Participants with a less methylated oxytocin gene reported being more social, and were better at \u201creading\u201d other people. It was as if their brains seemed better primed for sociability.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sign up for Women\u2019s Health\u2019s new newsletter,\u00a0So This Happened, to get the day\u2019s trending stories and health studies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does all this mean, exactly? Basically, it helps explain why some people crave companionship more than others. Not only that, it shows that there\u2019s nothing wrong with you if you\u2019re not a \u201crelationship person.\u201d It\u2019s just the way your brain functions\u2014due to a variety of hard-to-determine factors that influence your genes. And that\u2019s totally OK.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RELATED: Here\u2019s Why the Less You Have Sex, the Less You Actually Want It For the study, researchers took samples of the 121 study participants\u2019 saliva to test for levels of methylation on the oxytocin gene. What they found was that folks who had a more methylated version of oxytocin were also more likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}