I didn't watch, and I didn't say hormones either.
Nor do I have a cat. Pretty sure it's actually a pheromone, which apparently works really well according to my cat-owning friend. I'm told that the Feliway plugs give off something called "feline appeasing pheromone".
If humans can make musk, it's not too much of a stretch (to me) that there's a chemical that makes people feel a little less stressed. I mean, pheromones would hardly work if they were specific to the individual would they? Lavender is the common one, though it might well be a placebo. Hard to test that.
I defer to FCM.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 6 May 2023, 0:28,
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Oh yeah I meant pheromone rather than hormone, soz.
It is not proven that adult humans have adequate pheromone receptors. There's some info on the human vomeronasal organ debate here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050168/
Feliway is the very expensive magic water cartridge I'm talking about. There's a summary of Feliway research studies here: whatyourcatwants.com/feliway
There are chemicals (drugs, medicines) that make humans less stressed, but these chemicals are not pheromones that we can (or probably can't even) smell, and smell is not the direct medium by which these chemicals affect the brain. These chemicals also have fairly unique/non-uniform effects on individuals.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 6 May 2023, 20:18,
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