daedalus2u comments on Fight Zero-Sum Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: daedalus2u 24 July 2010 02:52:17PM 0 points [-]

Extreme metabolic stress is euphoric, as in autoerotic asphyxiation and I think the runner's high. I think exercise addiction is addiction to the euphoria of extreme metabolic stress.

Euphoria is a complex physiological state. I presume that for simple drugs to induce euphoria, they are actually triggering already existing pathways.