In healthy men, plasma oxytocin rose significantly from before to after both a 20-minute massage and a 20-minute reading period, so the rise was not specific to massage.
In plain wordsIn healthy men, the body's own oxytocin level rose after both massage and reading, so touch was not needed for the rise.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreasePlasma oxytocin change from pre- to post-intervention
- Study
n = 14
- Comparator
- Reading control condition
- Outcome group
- Stress hormones · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
Both experimental (massage) and control (reading) conditions elicited a significant increase in plasma OT levels (p < 0.05)
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
A randomized, controlled, crossover, repeated-measures, prospective experimental design with subjects acting as their own controls was used.
Fourteen (14) healthy men between the ages of 19 and 45 years of age were randomly assigned to the order of two conditions: a 20-minute massage (experimental condition) or a 20-minute reading period (control condition).
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.