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Dopamine
There's a hormone called prolactin, which is involved in milk let down for nursing. It also increased in both men and women in the anticipation of childbirth. This is actually responsible for the so-called dad bod. Prolactin lays down body fat stores, tends to make people a little more sedentary. Dopamine has this quality of making us focused on things outside our immediate experience. And most of the drugs designed to treat schizophrenia are drugs that reduce dopamine.