사랑 고작 이거라구

Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric

and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell

us the feeling won't last more than a year. REUTERS/File

푹 빠지는 사랑은 아니 열정은 아니 그보다 눈먼 사랑 활활 타는 물불 못 가리는

사랑은 고작 그 유지 기간이 불과 일년이다. 신경의 미 분자에 의한 것으로

사랑에 눈먼 58명을 대상으로 조사한 이태리 과학자에 의해 입증되어졌다.

이게 사랑이란 것의 그 실체이다 불과 그 일년때문에 무수한 희비가 또 인생의 진로가

바뀌는 엄청난 사건들을 경험한다. 그래 만나고 일년만 차분해지면 평생이 더욱 화려...

Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year

Tue Nov 29, 1:40 PM ET

ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly.

It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.

The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF),

according to Pavia University researchers.

The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love

than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships.

But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level

as that of the other groups.

The Italian researchers, publishing their study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, said it was not clear

how falling in love triggers higher levels of NGF, but the molecule clearly has an important role in the "social

chemistry" between people at the start of a relationship