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14Dec/25

How To Get a Natural High

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Dec. 14, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — A “natural high” from endorphins is a feeling of euphoria and reduced pain that the body produces in response to certain activities or stress. These effects are a result of the body’s natural pain-relieving chemicals (endogenous morphine) binding to opioid receptors in the brain. Continue reading →
15Nov/23

How music heals us, even when it’s sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy

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Leigh Riby, Northumbria University, Newcastle

When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his own life]. He’d been listening to her album, and I played it as I tidied up. Whenever I hear the song, I’m taken back – the sadness and anger comes flooding back.

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