Season 1 · Episode 4

The Love Peptide

The van guy is hyping a LOVE peptide. Garth wants everyone's lunch money. Pip wants a hug.

0:41Oxytocin

The real fact

Oxytocin

Oxytocin is nine amino acids. Your brain makes it when you hug someone or pet a dog, and doctors use it to help moms have babies.

OXYTOCIN

9 amino acids

HUGS & DOGS

your brain makes it when you hug or pet a dog

DOCTORS USE IT

to help moms have babies

Comedy, not medical advice. Amino Falls never sells peptides or links to anyone who does. Each episode explains one real fact for general education. Nothing here is a recommendation to use anything. Talk to a doctor about your own health.

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Jaxon

Bros! The LOVE peptide! Oxytocin! Spray it, and everybody loves you!

Garth

If everybody loves me... they'll give me their lunch money.

Theo

It's not a love potion, you dumbass!

Theo

Oxytocin is nine Lego bricks. Your brain makes it when you hug someone you like.

Danny

Or pet a dog.

Theo

The dog makes some too! And doctors use it to help moms have babies.

Garth

Ew! I'm not spraying damn baby juice on my face!

Linda

Did somebody say HUGS? Group hug, boys!

Theo

I can't breathe!

Pip(mumbled)

me too?

Garth

Hugs are for people we like, Pip.

Danny

So the love peptide... is just a hug.

Pip(mumbled)

...cool.

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