University Daily Kansan, September 11, 1981
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Scientists may back 'jogger's high' claim
By JOLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Joggers have always said that running is addictive, and now science may be able to back up their claim.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that strenuous exercise—such as jogging—may make people feel good not only because it strengthens muscles, but because it increases production of a morphine-like substance in the body.
Paul Malott, a Lawrence senior who has run cross-country here for the last five years, described the feeling of well-being—often called the "high"—that comes after running distresses.
"There's so many times that I've gone on a 10-mile-run and I'll get back and I'll feel so relaxed and so warm, and nothing will upset me," he said.
"There's nothing like getting up to run early in the morning, seeing the sun rising."
Malotl said that he is studying exercise physiology, and that he is especially interested in studying long-distance runners.
THE RESEARCHERS at Massachusetts General Hospital put seven women, aged 18 to 30, through an exercise program that included jogging, bicycle riding and callisthenics, and analyzed the women's blood after exercise and between exercise periods.
Endorphins—which affect the body like morphine five in the blood after exercise, the muscles are stretched.
It has been theorized that endorphins in the brain may cause "jogger's high" and that runners experience depression and withdrawal symptoms when they are deprived of exercise.
“One time last summer I overtrained,” Malott said. “I raced once too often and got injured. I could exercise for three or four weeks. My muscles, and psychologically I felt depressed.”
THE WITHDRAWAL symptoms are probably psychological, and not caused by drug withdrawal from endorphins, said Dewey K. Ziegler, university of Kansas Medical Center neurology
Daniel B. Carr, the Massachusetts General Endocrinology Research Fellow who headed the endorphin study, said that his study may also help explain why female athletes often stop
having menstrual periods—a condition called amenorrhea.
He said that past studies had shown that morphine can throw reproductive functions off in people and animals, and he suggested that might be due to strenuous exercise might do the same thing.
HOWEVER, DAVID QUADAGNO, a professor of physiology and cell biology, said that endorphins are probably not the reason why female athletes develop amnorrhea.
Women under stress—whether it is the stress of final exams or exercise—often stop having their periods regularly, he said. Also, women often stop having regular periods when they don't have enough fat in their bodies, compared to muscle.
Female athletes are usually lighter than women who don't exercise, Quadagno said, and women who do develop amnorrhea are usually young athletes who weigh less than 115 pounds and have lost more than 10 pounds since they started training.
He did say that endorphins—since they affect the central nervous system like morphine—may contribute to the general stress on the body that leads to amenorrhea.
A group that played new wave music before almost any other group did will appear at 8 p.m. Sept. 25 in Hoch Auditorium.
New wave music featured
The Tubes, a San Francisco band, has been around for years but never has received much air play. Duke Divine, special events organization, and Student Union Activities Board, said yesterday.
Tickets for the Tubes performance may be purchased at the SUA ticket office, Kief's Records in Lawrence or Mother Earth in New York. Get $10, or $$ with a KU identification card.
The concert is sponsored by SUA and Uptown Productions.
The group gained a cult following through its theatrical concerts, Divine said, although radio stations refused to play its music because of the harsh songs.
However, the group's new album, "The Completion Backwards Principle," is becoming the group's first widely accepted album, Divine said.
"Right now they are at their peak as far as public acceptance goes, and that is the reason—the only reason—they are doing two shows in one market," Divine said.
ABC reporter expelled from Egypt
By United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt—Egypt yesterday expelled ABC news correspondent Chris Harper and ordered him to leave the country within 24 hours.
ABC immediately protested what it called the "unprecedented action" and said it would send another correspondent to replace Harper.
On Wednesday, President Anwar Sadat criticized U.S. reporters for their coverage of his crackdown on dissidents in which 1,600 people were arrested.
The decision to expel Harper was based on grounds that he interviewed a British journalist whom the agency said was hostile toward Egypt.
At a press conference, Sadat held up video cassettes of the interview as evidence.
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