Sentences with phrase «natural opiates produced»

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Endorphins, the body's natural opiates, produce an altered state of consciousness and aid us in transmuting pain: and the fight or flight hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline (epinephrine and norepinephrine - also known as catecholamines or CAs) give us the burst of energy that we need to push our babies out in second stage.

The scientists discovered that a class of mechanoreceptors in the skin that detect painful mechanical stimuli are part of a feedback circuit in which excitatory neurons that produce the hormone somatostatin are inhibited by neurons that synthesize dynorphin (a natural analgesic molecule that produces effects similar to opiates).

Gijs, the theory is that when the «reward center» is blocked by LDN, the body produces more of the natural opiates that help the immune system and other systems in the body, to compensate for the blockage, which is temporary at any rate.