Exercise is like smoking pot

[moeburn]

Due to its highly lipophilic properties, anandamide crosses the bloodâ??brain barrier readily, avoiding the principal problem that plagued the endorphin hypothesis. Activation of central CB1 receptors by exogenous cannabinoids such as THC causes intense subjective experiences similar to those reported by endurance athletes such as analgesia, sedation (postexercise calm), anxiolysis, and a sense of well being.

http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/Exercise_Piomelli.pdf

Summary: Your body produces its own chemical similar to THC, called "anandamide". These guys found out that anandamide is released while exercising. This explains why runners get high after running several miles.

Thanks, science!

moeburn Reviewed by moeburn on 03-12-2007. Exercise is like smoking pot http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/Exercise_Piomelli.pdf Summary: Your body produces its own chemical similar to THC, called "anandamide". These guys found out that anandamide is released while exercising. This explains why runners get high after running several miles. Thanks, science! Rating: 5

[napolitana869]

cool. I wonder if its hard to feel both the thc induced high and the feeling produced by anandamide at the same time because one or the other filling up the majority of the receptors.

[Matt the Funk]

Dude! Anandamine is also produced in high(or lower amounts, I forget) in schizophrenics. It is the bodys natural cannaboid. It helps block dopamine from going to the brain or something. Anyways I plan on reading up and studying on how it effects the brain. Nice link too!

[Dreadmantic]

Wow...sweet

[Dest]

interesting.... i always wondered what that feeling was after i would run sprints at lacrosse or run a mile or something like that

[halfassedjediknight]

no wonder i got the munchies after that long jog today! joooookes!

[ZeldaG.]

lol when i read the title of the thread i thout you was gonna say:

cannabis is like exercise cos when you smoke your heart starts to beat faster, the same happens when you exercise so it must be the same!!! :smokin:


lol

[mrdevious]

So is anandamide a name for a type of cannabinoid? I actaully read something about this a couple weeks ago, suggesting that cannabinoid receptor stimulation was more predominantly responsible for the runners high, as opposed to endorphines. It's cool to see another journal article suggesting the same. Though I imagine endorphines still play some role. This has also made me wonder, with a tokers high cannabinoid tolerance, wouldn't we be considerably less susceptable to the runners high?

[Matt the Funk]

So is anandamide a name for a type of cannabinoid? I actaully read something about this a couple weeks ago, suggesting that cannabinoid receptor stimulation was more predominantly responsible for the runners high, as opposed to endorphines. It's cool to see another journal article suggesting the same. Though I imagine endorphines still play some role. This has also made me wonder, with a tokers high cannabinoid tolerance, wouldn't we be considerably less susceptable to the runners high?

Suppossedly in another article I read anandamide is a cannabinoid, and it is the body's natural anti-psychotic. It does something to the dopeamine receptors in your brain. Here is the article http://www.marijuana.org/ocregister5-18-99.html .

[pass the chicken]

not to be the parinoid stoner on the thread but is it possible that this is just the get active and the stop smoking campaigns rolled together into one pretty package? you know trade smoking for running?