151: Joy of Movement with Kelly McGonigal
Pivot with Jenny Blake
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The Neurochemical State That Makes Running Gratifying
The neurochemical state that makes running, or we'll say persisting gratifying may have originally served as a reward to keep early humans hunting and gathering. What we call the runner's high may have even encouraged our ancestors to cooperate and share the spoils of a hunt. The author was so fascinated by the fact that endocannabinoids clearly play a role in the social aspect of being human and other social species.
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