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Re:What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it ma... by 3am_hackernews on Thursday September 27, 2012 @02:11PM (#4581987)
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]

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Re:What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it ma... by zerostar07 on Thursday September 27, 2012 @04:14PM (#4582646)
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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