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		3am_hackernews on Sept 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happens to our brains when we exercise and ho... As with most of the neuroscience research, there exists a counter evidence to this - Boecker, H., Sprenger, T., Spilker, M.E., Henriksen, G., Koppenhoefer, M., Wagner, K.J., Valet, M., Berthele, A., Tolle, T.R. (2008). The Runner's High: Opioidergic Mechanisms in the Human Brain. Cerebral Cortex DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn013[http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/11/2523.full]

_csoz on Sept 27, 2012 [–]

Other study shows that the effect is mediated through endocannabinoids not endorphins (But the effect is very real): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14625449

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