Aphrodisiac normally consists of what chemicals?

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Aphrodisiacs typically consist of various chemicals that influence hormone levels, particularly testosterone in males and estrogen in females. These substances can be derived from cholesterol and may vary widely, with potentially hundreds of effective preparations available. The discussion highlights the role of hormones in sexual arousal and mentions PT-141, a hormone-related substance, as well as Viagra, a well-known non-hormonal drug that contains sildenafil citrate, which is often associated with increased libido. Testosterone is noted to enhance sexual desire in both genders.
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aphrodisiac normally consists of what chemicals ?
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It stimulates hormones, so based on somewhat cholesterine derivative. But this is very brief knowledge. The nature of chemicals can change as there may be theoretically hundreds of aphrodisiac-effective preparations, but it has to do with hormones anyway, especially testosterone for males, and estrogene for females.
 
Hi,

This case is hormon-controlled case as specified in the topic above. Here this website references a hormone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT-141

Also, a well known non-hormone drug "viagra", whose active material is sidenafil citrate (you can find this even in lots of spam mails :) )
 
Testosterone actually increases libido in both sexes.

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