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Treatment for the aching miseries: prolactin levels TREATMENT FOR THE ACHING MISERIES: PROLACTIN LEVELS
They are trying another kind of treatment at both these places too. When they first started to investigate the hormone level in patients suffering from premenstrual tension, they discovered that women who had a low level of progesterone in their blood often had a correspondingly high level of another hormone called prolactin. They felt that the correct balance might be restored if they gave these patients drugs which would cut back the amount of prolactin they were producing. Prolactin is another one of those powerful hormones that have a profound effect on the way our bodies function and the way we feel and behave, as you can see if you look at the particular times in our lives when we naturally produce greater quantities of it. They're the great private moments. And the first of them is when we have made love and enjoyed it. Now as prolactin is one of the hormones that dampen down our response to stress and make us feel less anxious, this could be one of the reasons why we feel so good after really pleasurable love making. Although only one, of course! We also release large quantities of prolactin when we are giving birth. And when we suckle our new babies, their sucking makes us produce more prolactin and the prolactin in its turn makes us produce more milk. Which is a nice neat way of ensuring that the supply will meet the demand.
But it doesn't stop there. As the baby sucks and our bodies respond by producing more prolactin two other very important things happen as a result. For a start, the prolactin cuts down the amount of adrenalin we're producing, and this keeps us calm while we're feeding our infants and gives us that lovely purring sense of well-being that so many happily breast-feeding mothers enjoy. And on top of that, it makes us produce another of those subtle but very influential body scents or pheromones. This one is specially for the baby who will smell it and respond to it at once. This is how even a very new baby can recognize its own mother and respond to her. It's a powerful, natural way of ensuring that these two very important human beings bond to each other. And it works on the same principle and in the same sort of way as the sexy pheromones we produce half-way through the month — the ones that turn on our husbands and boyfriends.
I can't help feeling that we shouldn't tamper with such a powerful hormone, especially when we know what far-reaching effects it has on the way we function as wives and mothers. Even the doctors at St Thomas' who are the most ardent advocates of using drugs to cut down the amount of prolactin their patients produce, are honest enough to admit that they don't know yet exactly what the effects of suppressing it may be. One of them, Dr Brush, a biochemist who works at St Thomas' says: 'The exact mechanism of action of pyridoxine in premenstrual tension treatment is not yet fully understood but it is likely to be at more than one level'.
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