Exercise activates the endocannabinoid system
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Exercise activates the endocannabinoid system.
Extensive documentation exists showing that exercise induces analgesia and sedation. Despite decades of research attempting to explicate a neurochemical basis for these phenomena, the mechanism underlying these changes is unknown. Using trained male college students running on a treadmill or cycling on a stationary bike for 50 min at 70-80% of maximum heart rate, we report here the first eviden...
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عنوان ژورنال: NeuroReport
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-4965
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200312020-00015