Salon.com > Endorphins http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Music gets you high http://www.salon.com/2012/11/23/music_gets_you_high/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/23/music_gets_you_high/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13105421 Pacific Standard Jealous of the “runner’s high” serious athletes feel after an intense, vigorous workout? Well, newly published research reveals three alternative ways you can release those mood-enhancing endorphins:

Singing, dancing, and drumming.

That’s the conclusion of a study by University of Oxford psychologist Robin Dunbar. He and his colleagues report people who have just been playing music have a higher tolerance for pain—an indication their bodies are producing endorphins, which are sometimes referred to as natural opiates.

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