Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg
Oxytocin Specialist

Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg is a specialist in women’s health and female physiology and has worked within these fields for more than 30 years. She is a pioneer in research about oxytocin, ”the hormone of love and wellbeing”, and was one of the first researchers to point out the behavioural, psychological and physiological effects of oxytocin during birth, breastfeeding and menopause. She was also one of the first to study the role of oxytocin in response to closeness and touch and its role during interaction between parents and children.

?Kerstin found, among other things, that oxytocin reduces pain and anxiety, decreases blood pressure and reduces the levels of stress hormones in both sexes. These discoveries have helped to stimulate the development of oxytocin to become a pharmaceutical drug, to be used to increase social competence in autistic individuals, to decrease anxiety, stress and depression and to increase wellbeing.