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The Problem with the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Outside magazine reports on a Princeton psychology professor who may have demonstrated that running with friends is more beneficial than running alone. Or not. The researcher, Elizabeth Gould, looked at subjects who ran alone and at those who ran in groups, and measured the rates of brain cell growth among both groups. Much to her surprise, those who ran in groups showed more neuron growth than those who ran alone. Why? The scientists propose that running, like all exercise, produces stress hormones that could negate the benefits of exercise. But running in groups, they think, might suppress the negating hormones, and when all the math is done, it just might put the runner in the neurological black. Geezer finds the research, published in Nature Neuroscience, a bit less than persuasive, largely because the subjects of the experiments were not human runners, but rats. He admits, however, that they appear to be very sociable rats.

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