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Banish headaches

Got a throbbing head? Leave those painkillers in the bathroom cabinet and try a quick fumble beneath the sheets instead. The reason? It's all down to good old oxytocin again: as levels of it surge, feelgood endorphins increase, which in turn encourages pain to subside. A study published in the Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine found that inhaling oxytocin vapour more than halved the pain thresholds of 48 volunteers.

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