beta-endorphin love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An endorphin produced by the pituitary gland that is a potent pain suppressant.

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Examples

  • Anything that activates the beta-endorphin or dopamine pathways will do.

    Dr. Ali Binazir: Addiction Recovery: Why We're Addicted to Negative Behaviors 2010

  • It turns out that pain and negative emotions (e.g. self-pity, anger, guilt) also activate the beta-endorphin and dopamine pathways.

    Dr. Ali Binazir: Addiction Recovery: Why We're Addicted to Negative Behaviors 2010

  • As a result, the body releases a beneficial cocktail of hormones namely, seretonin and beta-endorphin, lowers heart rate and blood pressure, improves circulation, and produces an overall calming effect and feeling of well-being.

    ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009

  • Progesterone and progestins: effects on brain, allopregnanolone and beta-endorphin.

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

  • Herz, Effects of chronic ethanol treatment on the in vitro biosynthesis of pro-opiomelanocortin and its posttranslational processing of beta-endorphin in the intermediate lobe of the rat pituitary, Journal of Neurochemistry 43 1984: 607-13.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • This reduction of beta-endorphin in the hypothalamus of the alcohol-preferring animals, and the accompanying increase in their blood serum, indicated that alcohol was causing a neuronal release of endorphin from the hypothalamus into the blood.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Initially, they measured the amount of beta-endorphin in both brain and blood tissues in alcohol-preferring and alcohol-nonpreferring mice.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Sapun-Malcolm, J. M. Farah, Jr., and G. P. Mueller, Serotonin and dopamine independently regulate pituitary beta-endorphin release in vivo, Neuroendocrinology 42 1986: 191-96.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • When alcohol was administered to both types of mice, beta-endorphin release at the synapse was greater at the hypothalamus in the alcohol-preferring mice.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • After alcohol ingestion, the high-risk group showed a 170 percent increase in beta-endorphin; the low-risk group showed just the opposite—a slight decrease.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

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