Endorphins

"20 things you don't know about me''

1. Where I hang out most of the time: Pituitary Gland and the Hypothalamus. 2. I am responsible for: Reducing the perception of pain 3. I'm most similar to the drug: Morphine 4. My favorite activity is: Exercising! 5. I hate it when: people eat candy because I can only last as long as the sugar rush does. 6. The best thing about receptor sites is: when I attach to them, it blocks the neurotransmitters that cause humans to experience pain. 7. When humans don't have enough of me: They tend to feel more anxious and crave fatty foods. 8. In a choice between robots or zombies: because... <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Zombies. Their bodies are literally falling apart and they don't have time for pain, just eating brains. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">9. The sucky thing about being a hormone: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Is when humans abuse opiates such as morphine or codeine, and stop producing me naturally. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">10. A really strange fact about me: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">when activated, I enhance the body's immune response. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">11. My favorite food and why: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Chocolate, it makes everyone feel so good! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">12. I once dated a synapse, but it fell apart because: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">These annoying peptidases got at me. They make me become rapidly inactive..darn enzymes. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">13. Sleep is awesome because: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Woah woah woah, since when is sleep awesome? I never get to DO anything during sleep. It's boring. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">14. A neuron walks into a bar and says: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"Hey! That didn't hurt! Thanks Endorphins!" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">15. When humans have too much of me: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">They can experience a rush of euphoria, but it may cause a lack of me as a result, making them then feel anxious. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">16. A talent I have is:<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> creating the "runner's high" athletes get after running long distances. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">17. My best friend is: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Epinephrine and I like to hang out, but I'm always helping dopamine be released. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">18. Who discovered me:<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Rabi Samantov and Solomon Snyder in 1975. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">19. The Endorphin Theory of Love: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">states that when two people fall in love, the body releases a "plethora of endorphins"...That's me! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">20. In animals, I help: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Bears hibernate by slowing their metabolism.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"Status Updates" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Endorphins: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Just got back from doing some hardcore work outs with epinephrine...time to fuel up. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Endorphins: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Had a fruit salad for breakfast, gotta love Vitamin C. We <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> tag-teamed and really got the immune response fighting off that cold. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Endorphins: My human's going on a date tonight, hopefully he'll really like her and I'll get a chance to work my magic! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Endorphins: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ran into Acetylcholine earlier...literally. It was quite the confusion. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Endorphins: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ended the day with a good yoga session, followed by some chocolate cake. Maybe not the best reward, but I'm feeling great!









A quick video on endorphins and memory as explained by Arthur Bornstein.. []

An overview of endorphins...read by a computer... []

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