15 Being in love cuts headache frequency in half.
If you suffer from chronic headaches and can’t find anything to ease the pain, then love might just be the secret solution you’ve been waiting for. When researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine gave subjects with chronic headaches a nasal spray with a dose of oxytocin, or the “love hormone,” in it, they found that 50 percent of participants reported their head pain to be cut in half after four hours, with an addition 27 percent reporting no pain at all in the same timeframe.