What Role Does Endocrinology Play in Understanding Love?

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The discussion centers on the relationship between the conscious mind and romantic behavior, emphasizing that traditional reasoning fails to explain unreasoned romantic acts. It highlights the role of endocrinology in understanding emotions, noting that brain functions and hormonal responses chemically influence feelings and actions. The interplay of hormones and the circulatory system is presented as a potential explanation for passionate emotions, suggesting that the heart's actions are ultimately guided by the brain's design. The conversation briefly touches on the appropriateness of poetry in the discussion, with the author confirming the original work as their own.
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The conscious mind’s had no real rationale
to explain unreasoned romantic acts;
endocrinology, however, shall
provide new answers, based on sounder facts.
This system, ruled by lobes within the brain,
initiates emotions chemic’ly;
adrenals startle, endorphins numb pain
and hormones stimulate systemic’ly.
This balance of drugs, dispensed with the aid
of circulatory transportation,
brought about assumption that what conveyed
must also be cause and explanation
for hot-blooded passions at war with mind,
but hearts only pump what brains have designed.
 
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Haha, nice. Did you write that or did you find it somewhere?
 
It's mine. I apologize for not realizing poetry is inappropriate here, however.
 

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