Research by Forest Tennant, M.D., Ph.D., shows that regular doses of motivation will increase your success. Dr. Tennant, one of the top drug experts in the world, has been a consultant for the NFL, NASCAR, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Abbott Laboratories, Texaco, and many others.
Dr. Tennant attended a seminar of Zig Ziglar, conducted in Anaheim, California. Before the seminar had started, he (Dr. Tennant) took blood samples from 5 persons in the audience. When the seminar ended four hours later, he again took blood samples from those 5 persons. The endorphin* and cortisol levels had increased by 300%. Since then Dr. Tennant has conducted additional experiments and has made these fascinating findings:
There is a biochemical basis for why people feel good after these talks. Something hearing about success, gives us an emotional charge that releases those chemicals into the bloodstream and that makes the body function better. And while these effects last for no more than a few hours, regular doses of motivation will lead to better health, happiness, and achievement.
What is endorphin*?
In the early 1970s, researchers were studying how the brain is affected by opiates, such as heroin & morphine. They found that opiates interact with specialized receptors in cells that are primarily massed in the brain and spinal cord. When opiates enter these receptors, they hinder or block the cell's transmission of pain signals. But why, wondered the scientists studying this phenomenon, would these specialized receptors exist in the first place? The most plausible answer was that opioid receptors exist due to the presence of an opiate like substance produced naturally in the body.
Enters endorphin: your own private narcotic!
Endorphins are neurotransmitters, chemicals that pass along signals from one neuron to the next. Neurotransmitters play a key role in the function of the central nervous system and can either prompt or suppress the further signaling of nearby neurons.
Endorphins are produced as a response to certain stimuli, especially stress, fear or pain. They originate in various parts of your body - the pituitary gland (the major endocrine gland, a pea-sized body attached to the base of the brain that is important in controlling growth and development and the functioning of the other endocrine glands), your spinal cord and throughout other parts of your brain & nervous system - and interact mainly with receptors in cells found in regions of the brain responsible for blocking pain and controlling emotion.
Dr. Tennant attended a seminar of Zig Ziglar, conducted in Anaheim, California. Before the seminar had started, he (Dr. Tennant) took blood samples from 5 persons in the audience. When the seminar ended four hours later, he again took blood samples from those 5 persons. The endorphin* and cortisol levels had increased by 300%. Since then Dr. Tennant has conducted additional experiments and has made these fascinating findings:
There is a biochemical basis for why people feel good after these talks. Something hearing about success, gives us an emotional charge that releases those chemicals into the bloodstream and that makes the body function better. And while these effects last for no more than a few hours, regular doses of motivation will lead to better health, happiness, and achievement.
What is endorphin*?
In the early 1970s, researchers were studying how the brain is affected by opiates, such as heroin & morphine. They found that opiates interact with specialized receptors in cells that are primarily massed in the brain and spinal cord. When opiates enter these receptors, they hinder or block the cell's transmission of pain signals. But why, wondered the scientists studying this phenomenon, would these specialized receptors exist in the first place? The most plausible answer was that opioid receptors exist due to the presence of an opiate like substance produced naturally in the body.
Enters endorphin: your own private narcotic!
Endorphins are neurotransmitters, chemicals that pass along signals from one neuron to the next. Neurotransmitters play a key role in the function of the central nervous system and can either prompt or suppress the further signaling of nearby neurons.
Endorphins are produced as a response to certain stimuli, especially stress, fear or pain. They originate in various parts of your body - the pituitary gland (the major endocrine gland, a pea-sized body attached to the base of the brain that is important in controlling growth and development and the functioning of the other endocrine glands), your spinal cord and throughout other parts of your brain & nervous system - and interact mainly with receptors in cells found in regions of the brain responsible for blocking pain and controlling emotion.
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