Kelly McGonigal

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The School of Greatness · The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

they basically turn up good stuff and turn down negative states.

So endocannabinoids, they interact with systems of your brain that produce pain, stress, worry, negative rumination, anger.

They take those systems of the brain and they're like, shh,

quiet down now, not the time for that.

And then that would be great.

I think a lot of people would love that.

It was it.

But natural levels of endocannabinoids also strongly enhance all reward and pleasure signaling in your brain.

So reward system is what makes you feel motivated, hopeful, optimistic, confident.

And then you've got the pleasure system that means like, oh, that sunset's so beautiful.

Or, oh, it feels really good to move my body, or this cake tastes delicious.

Whatever is good already, endocannabinoids make it even better.

It's like steroids.

Right.

So some people have experienced that with cannabis as well.

But here is the thing that is most interesting about exercise-induced endocannabinoids is they seem to selectively enhance social pleasures.

So it's not just this cake tastes better, but when it's naturally working in your brain from exercise, it means that you enjoy interacting with other people.

All the pleasures you could get from a hug or a high five, from eye contact, feeling like connection rather than intimidating.

The warm glow you get from working hard to solve a problem with someone else or the warm glow that you get from helping someone else.

the way it feels good to share in laughter or listen to someone tell a story, all of that stuff, the stuff that bonds relationships.

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