HELP! What should to someone who is having an anxiety attack?

@hippyjoe1955 Real helpful.

@canusernamebemyusername You haven't read the studies? Colour me surprised.

@hippyjoe1955 This is literally the stupidest thing you have ever said.

@canusernamebemyusername Your lack of information is staggering.

@MalteseFalconPunch I read the studies years ago in some psychology papers. I don't remember the title or the journal it was in. College was a long time ago.

@hippyjoe1955 You tell her a man is going to calm her. How exactly is she just going to go get one of those? Or are you trying to be the hero and offer your services?

@hippyjoe1955 Humans do not produce pheromone, nor do they have any means of detecting them (vomeronasal organ)

@canusernamebemyusername As opposed to offering useless words? We don't know the woman who is feeling anxious. We don't know her triggers or her comforts.

@newjaninev2 So you didn't learn anything on your latest trip to Saturn? Sad.

@hippyjoe1955 No we dont but we know how to help. Unlike you whose advice is to get a man.

@canusernamebemyusername No you don't know anything beyond cooing piteously.

@hippyjoe1955 Seriously, but a rat would work better🐀

@newjaninev2 The activity change during puberty suggest that humans communicate through odors. Several axillary steroids have been described as possible human pheromones: androstadienol, androstadienone, androstenone, androstenol, and androsterone. Androstenol is the putative female pheromone.

@hippyjoe1955 You are a narcissist if I ever met one. You think you are an expert on absolutely everything and can never ever be wrong.

@canusernamebemyusername Looking in the mirror again? I suspect you don't even know what a narcissist is. Kind of sad. Throwing around big words you don't understand to make yourself feel important.

@BalmyNites Thank you for the information. Funnily enough the non pheromone is constantly banging on about evolution but suddenly humans lost something that all other mammals have and use. Very odd.

@hippyjoe1955 You are seriously messed up. You have never offered help to anyone on here that was not self serving in some way.

@BalmyNites Many have sought, but none have found. Armpit odour has been suggested, as have many other sources, but there's no evidence for definitive effects from any of the proposed candidates. In any case, as I said, we lack any sort of vomeronasal organ.

I understand that some after-shave and perfume manufacturers had very successful marketing campaigns in the 70s by claiming that their products 'contained pheromones'

@newjaninev2 I frankly would be pleased if pheromones where real in humans but this woman needed help now. Not waiting for a debate. And then joe made it about him again. Thank you for your defense. The current state of the field as far as I know is what you say.

@newjaninev2 Researchers at the University of Chicago claimed that they managed to link the synchronization of women's menstrual cycles to unconscious odor cues. The head researcher was called Martha McClintock, and the phenomenon was called "the McClintock effect."

When exposing a group of women to a scent of sweat from other women, their menstrual cycles either accelerated or slowed down, depending on whether the sweat was collected before, during, or after ovulation.

The scientists said that the pheromone collected before ovulation shortened the ovarian cycle, while the pheromone collected during ovulation lengthened it.

You have your opinion & I have mine 😊😉

@hippyjoe1955 [quote]all other mammals[/quote]

Incorrect. Among primates, the Great Apes (chimps, humans, bonobo, etc) the TRPC2 gene is a [i]pseudogene[/i], and encodes only a small number of [i]vestigial[/i] V1Rs

You do remember the lessons about pseudogenes, don't you? Perhaps I should repeat them for you? This particular mutation, caused by a viral infection many millions of years ago, has been passed along from the common ancestor of all Hominidae (in the same way that humans cannot synthesise their own vitamin C, remember?)

@BalmyNites "After the initial studies, several papers were published reporting methodological flaws in studies reporting menstrual synchrony including McClintock's study. In addition, other studies were published that failed to find synchrony. The proposed mechanisms have also received scientific criticism. A 2013 review concluded that menstrual synchrony likely does not exist"

The Journal of Sex Research, Volume 50, 2013 - Issue 3-4: Annual Review of Sex Research Special Issue

You're welcome to opinion, but I prefer evidence.