Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines “pheromone” as follows: a chemical substance that is usually produced by an animal and serves especially as a stimulus to other individuals of the same species for one or more behavioral responses. 

This article will focus on the male “sex” pheromones, and how production of said pheromones can either attract or repel potential mates. “The biological basis for the development of physical attraction based on chemical signals is well detailed,” (Human Pheromones by James V. Kohl).  We will draw upon biochemistry and share with members of the community: how chi affects the pheromones and; what we as chi gung practitioners can do to stack the deck in our favor.
Caveat: the author offers his apologies to female readers interested in female pheromones as this is geared for men and male sex-related pheromones; the references cited, however, provide breadth as well as depth, and speak to female pheromones in a similar fashion.

About Pheromones

Pheromones are picked up by the olfactory senses subconsciously.  We are generally unaware of the specific chemical messages an individual sends, however; research has shown that the [pheromone] stimulation of olfactory senses allows the pheromone to “directly influence the neuroendocrinology of emotions”

(James V. Kohl et al; Human Pheromones: Integrating Neuroendocrinology and Ethology: Invited Nel Review).  Later in the same article, Kohl and his associates state: “the affect of pheromones on our emotions is linked to the effect of pheromones on the hormones of the hypothalamic-pituitary- gonadal axis -an unconscious affect.”  Please keep the reference of the “hypothalamic-pituitary- gonadal axis” in mind.  SPC made a special note regarding the pituitary gland and its role in bio-electromagnetic phenomena (chi) in the following article: “Qigong, Electricity & The Human Body”; http://chipower.com/blog/?p=47#more-47.  The article which provided the specific pituitary reference can be found here: “Electricity and Human Consciousness” by Celtoslavica; http://www.celtoslavica.de/bibliothek/electricity.html.

Male “Sex” Pheromones: Yin and Yang

The two male pheromones associated with having a physiological and behavioral response in females are androstenol and androstenone.  Interesting enough, one of these pheromones attracts partners whereas the other repels.  Laboratory experiments have shown “the application of androstenone to females led to negative descriptions of males whereas the application of androstenol led to a description of males as being sexually attractive,” (Vohl et al).  It would make sense, then, for men to maximize the output of androstenol and minimize the production of androstenone.  Unfortunately, like yin-yang, you cannot have one without the other.

Androstenone is a byproduct of the oxidation of androstenol.  It is androstenol that the body initially produces however; it is often quickly converted to androstenone via the chemical reaction called oxidation.  The challenge, then, is to slow down the oxidation process of androstenol, in an attempt to maximize an individual male’s pheromone attractiveness. 

Pheromones and Chi

Please keep in mind that chi is, in fact, electricity; please visit the December 2007 blog  posting “What is Chi?” for further clarification.  Electricity can come in many forms, be it bio-electromagnetic energy, or various types of specific radiations: electricity is electricity.  Electricity also plays a very important role in oxidation: Oxidation describes the loss of electrons by a molecule, atom or ion.  At the molecular level, as androstenol looses electrons, it becomes androstenone.  In this sequence of events, the male pheromone, initially of the “attracting” sort, turns into that which is “repelling”.  The similarities between male pheromones and “chi”, yin-yang, should be very much apparent at this point.  Let us take it one step further.

The act of oxidation, the removal of an electron, is (on a quantum scale), an act of repelling; the electromagnetic phenomenon of “heat” energy plays a role in this chemical reaction of large-scale physics. 
Logically speaking, then, if a man were somehow able to control, at a subatomic level, the amount of heat his bio-electromagnetic energy produced, he would have an uncanny advantage over other men with regards to his pheromone properties of attraction.  He would be able to significantly slow the process of androstenol (attracting pheromone) turning into androstenone (repelling pheromone).

Although this seems somewhat abstract, when applying the concepts of chi generation, especially with regards to the attributes of yin (soft, cool, relaxing energy) versus yang (hot, aggressive, repelling energy), the concepts dovetail nicely.  By cultivating cool chi, and focusing on the attributes of cool soft, relaxing energy, the body, on a quantum level, will produce bio-electromagnetic energy that is slow to oxidize the pheromones.  In fact, men who cultivate this type of energy not only “attract” like a human magnet, but are often looked upon and viewed as more “attractive”, without having done anything of outwardly significance.  These small changes in perception and focus, at a very microscopic level, will in fact, have huge results in the large-scale world of interacting with other people.

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Don Brown [Certified Instructor]