Is there A Runner's High? NY Times Has Answers Print E-mail
by Charles Stuart Platkin   
Friday, 28 March 2008

New York Times Filip Kwiatkowski for The New York TimesReporter Gina Kolata explains "the runner's high."  She writes "Researchers in Germany, using advances in neuroscience, report in the current issue of the journal Cerebral Cortex that the folk belief is true: Running does elicit a flood of endorphins in the brain. The endorphins are associated with mood changes, and the more endorphins a runner’s body pumps out, the greater the effect." Read more in the NY Times here.

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