Is the beauty drug company developing a kit love in fact a "chemical reaction"?
Release date: 2016-07-26
The occurrence of love is always sudden. For human beings , can a feverish love be attributed to an uncontrollable "chemical reaction"? Recently, a pharmaceutical company in the United States has developed a kit to detect "true love", which is designed to help couples understand the scientific principles behind their mutual attraction. For the marriage and love market with a large audience, this kind of thing that looks more reliable than the "constellation test " has been enthusiastically expected by young couples without being launched.
Love test: analyzing love from biology and genetics
Regardless of the past or the present, whether it is a constellation test, a syllabary operation or a tarot card divination has always been very popular, because everyone wants to know whether the other half of their favorite is true love. Today, in addition to the well-known tests of "service" for love, American researchers have developed a love match test that looks more "big".
The "mysterious" kit is packed in a parcel and the test kit contains two tubes. After the couple spit their saliva, put in a prepaid envelope and send it back. A few weeks later, they will receive a 30-page report called the Love Handbook, which explains in depth the biochemical and neurological matching of the two. This "love test" sounds "scientific", it will be 3 human leukocyte antigens, immune system genes and 4 behavioral genetic variants (serotonin transporter, oxytocin receptor, dopamine receptor and dopamine) The enzyme) is tested.
The kit also includes a psychological assessment so that clients can understand how a partner responds to conflicts and their performance in dominance, social behavior, and intimacy. According to foreign media reports, the company only analyzes customer-specific genetic material, does not conduct genome-wide analysis, and does not tell customers the potential impact of genetic mutations on offspring.
Almost everyone thinks that love is an instinct, but Ron Gonzalez, the founder of "Saliva Test", feels that "intuition" is just a subjective idea and there is no scientific basis. What they want to do is to inject the biological and genetic factors into the "love judgment", because it is these factors that create the "chemical reaction" of love, or the "magic power" of love.
Expert voice: The test principle is based on the results
Ron Gonzalez, the founder of the "Saliva Test", holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Over the years, he has been obsessed with the application of genetics in direct consumption testing because he realized that he did not want to study medical diseases for a lifetime. Since entering the marriage and dating industry, he has begun to develop his strengths and tries to integrate subjective love into more objective "scientific components." The test designed by Ron Gonzalez was originally designed for single people. Later, people in love liked to quantify themselves because they wanted to understand themselves and improve their relationship, so he changed his direction and developed a Couple test service.
As we all know, the "love match degree" includes many aspects, whether it is the growth environment, height, shape or character, hobbies, etc. of both parties, can be the criteria for mate selection or judging whether it is "symmetric". The “saliva test†gives people the most special place, because of their “biological and neurological†signs. In the interview with the reporter, Professor Huang Shengfeng of the School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-Sen University said in an interview that the kit has no problem in principle, so "there is no reference value" becomes the biggest problem. .
And whether or not there is a reference value is often a matter of opinion and varies from person to person, and can be viewed from many angles. First, how do we define true love? "If true love is a match between two people's immune systems , then this kit may be a bit of reference," he said.
Immune system matching: not essential for love
Has the "magic power of love" that people have talked about for thousands of years depends entirely on "the right place and the right place?" Or has it been "destined" in the body of two people (depending on the essence of biology and genetics)? If the "chemical reaction" of love is "the match of the immune system (MHC)", what is the significance of this match? Professor Huang told reporters, “There are qualitative and quantitative issues involved. If you are qualitative, I will make sense. If you quantify, I think further research is needed to give reliable data.†So let us measure from other angles. Look at this amount.
If the two people's immune system match requires a kit to test, it means that the match is not important, because if it is important, the long evolution will allow humans to evolve that they should not need a kit to identify each other's own match. Ability of degree. Some scientists have found that mice, between childhood and sexual maturity, prefer to be with peers of similar MHC genotypes, such as siblings and parents. But after sexual maturity, I like to be with mice that differ greatly in MHC genotype. This shows that, in the case of mice, the matching degree of MHC is an important factor in the mate selection of mice. But obviously, there is no evidence that the dependence of human mate selection on MHC is now at this level.
In general, the US “saliva test†is similar to the constellation test, except that there are more scientific elements. These elements are reasonable, but they may not have any effect. Perhaps, the so-called "love test" is just a kind of hope and entrustment. In other words, the popular network is saying, "Once you are serious, you lose."
Test significance: increasing the diversity of mate selection criteria
The human body odor is largely determined by the bacteria that grow in our skin, and the HLA immune system genes have an effect on the type of bacteria in the skin. Regarding these studies, the description of Ron Gonzalez, the founder of "Saliva Test", is very interesting. "When you smell a person's smell, you are testing the other's immune system. Even if people spray perfume or Cologne to cover up this smell, HLA gene can also be detected from the taste. When someone kisses you, they are indirectly detecting these immune system genes." But then again, between people, or Is this “match†from genetics and biology really important between lovers?
The so-called ideal spouse is essentially a pursuit of maximizing individual interests; but population genetics tells us that the maximization of individual interests within a group does not necessarily match the interests of the entire group; for a group, ideal The mate selection method is generally a diversified match or a random match. Obviously, for humans with "free will", they don't like randomness. So since everyone doesn't like randomness, then simply let everyone choose their own "freedom" according to their own standards - whether it is gender, height, wealth, social status, or morality, wisdom, age and blood type. Professor Huang said: "When the so-called standard of love is more and more, the seemingly free choice actually has a certain diversification and randomization effect; this may be beneficial to the overall viability of the group." Therefore, perhaps in a sense, more applications of such kits should be encouraged, so that humans have more than a few "spoofing criteria", although the significance may not be large, but it is always more interesting than computer fortune telling.
Source: Guangzhou Daily
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