There are a few things that can make feeling that sweet euphoria a little more likely.
Researchers looked at 25 collegiate runners, both male and female, and tested their saliva before and after a long-distance run. They also asked them about whether or not they experienced a runner’s high, which they gauged based on four criteria: mood, lost sense of time, run quality, and euphoria. Physiologic markers like temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, pupil dilation, and serotonin levels were also taken into account.
“As a runner, I was always told that only endorphins caused a runner’s high,” said Hicks. “Recently, that long-held idea has been challenged in the scientific literature, and there is growing evidence that the endocannabinoid system may be involved.” In those participants who reported the runner’s high, these RNA markers were significantly changed from prerun levels, and were also different from those who didn’t experience it.
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