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Showing posts with label runner's high. Show all posts
Showing posts with label runner's high. Show all posts
Friday, April 27, 2012
Runner's High Like Smoking Dope
According to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, "humans had shown significantly increased levels of endocannabinoids after running. So had the dogs, suggesting, for the first time, that they, too, experience a runner’s high (The Evolution of Runner's High)
Endocannabinoids are natural compounds within the human body that are essentially identical to medicinal compounds found in cannabis
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