March - 2020 by Koaw (Video hosted on YouTube)

This whole video started after seeing my sister sniffing her baby. Months of research ensued.

BIT MORE BACKGROUND: I had pushed this project aside for more than a year for a couple of reasons: 1) Too much research didn’t exist for the script I wanted to write and 2) I was swamped with the weekly videos for Koaw Nature, as well as my other work.

Once I had sufficient research to put something together, it took me just over a week to write the script. It was tedious; the script I wanted would have been 70 pages! (That would have been a 4-5 hour video—and months of production!) I managed to get the script cut to just over a 30 minute video, excluding so many studies and other information that I thought was so interesting. The cuts also made me restructure the entire video. I ended up choosing to focus on oxytocin over the other hormones and signaling substances because Meg Daley Olmert and Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg had already set terrific framework and theory around the point I was trying to make. So, indeed this work is quite derivative of the works of the aforementioned women. Yet, if we think about it, science is almost entirely derivative from the work of others.

Cheers! -K

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