well i believe I remember reading about that effect while on. Its a combo of the confidence you have, and I believe you do emit a different hormonal stink. Its an alpha male thing, so also some of it could be in your head
Interestingly enough science shows that by nature man and women are attracted by smell. because you can smell who will have genes that mix well with yours to produce a child with a strong immune system....I need to find that for you guys.
It's a study done out of the UK I believe. Researchers had men run on treadmills and sweat it up in their t shirts. The researchers then took the tshirts and put them in a glass jar to preserve the pheromones.
They then had women smell the tshirts and rate which one had the more attractive smell to it.
What the women didn't know was that one of the tshirts was from a male in each of their families.
Strangely enough, women rated the tshirts that their fathers/brothers sweated in as being the LEAST attractive.
This is because family members share relatively the same immune system. Their MHC complex in their genes is so similar that we are biologically programmed to seek out mates with different immune systems, MHC complexes in genes.
This is one of natures ways of keeping the gene pool strong and preventing incest. Incest results in significantly weaker immune systems, which could result in a species dying off. Stronger immune systems = greater chance of survival.
Thus pheromones can subconsciously cue you in on who has a strong and favorable immune system and who doesn't. In this case, pheromones were acting to signal the women who was a close family member (where mating would result in a weaker immune system) and who would be a good sexual partner to bear children with who have a strong immune system. Afterall, the whole goal is to ensure the survival of your genes into the future.
Cool stuff
