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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
Are there any hormones or drugs that would effect human pheromone production? I'm going toward the angle of the mothers being exposed and the children being affected, maybe their sebaceous glands are mutated?
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There are drugs that impact human pheromone production (David, pheromones are not rumored to exist... they do exist, in animals and in humans, but humans have lost the conscious ability to detect them. I touched upon this in my novel
Evoguia). Many perfumes, which are themselves pheromones, and other drugs that stimulate or suppress hormone-producing glands, can create, block or change pheromone output.
Studies have used pheromones on subjects studying photos of members of the opposite sex, and shown that pheromone exposure causes subjects to routinely grade the photos higher in sexual attraction. It has been suggested that the pheromones released by women in an office environment may be the cause of some women in such offices "synchronizing" their periods over time. (Wish I had a reference for either of these.)
Humans are impacted by pheromones, but it is such a subtle impact that scientists have been hard-pressed to prove it; other studies have been largely inconclusive.