Comments on: Can the Human Body Make Its Own Morphine?

By: The Rev

The Rev — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:06:20 +0000

Would naturally produced morphine show up in urine and at levels high enough to be detected on a drug test at 150 ng/ml?

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:53:36 +0000

Yeah, I thought that the receptors for endorphins were basically the same as the receptors for morphine and equivalent drugs. Which is why morphine is chemically active in our bodies–it’s an external source for a drug already produced internally.

Nor is the match between morphine and tissue receptors accidental. This isn’t a case of a drug mimic, just as certain compounds mimic estrogen. The morphine key fits the receptor lock because the lock was meant to fit that key.

By: Naheed

Naheed — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:56:53 +0000

Yes it seems body does make morphine, this is specially true in some people.As with the enhancemnet of stress some are found to sleep more, may be this is body’s way of coping with stress with the production of morphine like substances..endorphine and enkephaline..acting on brain receptors. It is there in Quran..where Allah says…I have given you diseases and their cures too within you…like antibodies, interferons, prostaglandins..to name a few, while many more have to be explored.To cure oneself one has to have a strong brain too.i.e. will power…

By: scott

scott — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:13:31 +0000

Dear Brain, please make more morphine,
thanks, me.

By: nothingmuchly

nothingmuchly — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:47:18 +0000

Aren’t endorphins the same as morphine? The word is an acronym for endogenous morphine, after all..

By: Mary Stack

Mary Stack — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:13:07 +0000

Totally fascinating topic. I always thought there must be a grain of truth to the idea of self-pain control. The best example, is the nature videos of animals attacking and eating another alive. The doomed animal will disengage from the survival fight and accept the death. I know our bodies and most importantly, our brains have some equivalent mechanism. Women who have experienced a natural birth may be more likely to comprehend this process. I have always wondered, if my ability and preference to tough out pain was inherited from my native Indian ancestry.

By: jumblepudding

jumblepudding — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:19:11 +0000

I think it was found that cow’s milk, at least, contains compounds similar to morphine, which possibly developed pacify and calm the calf as well as create a subtle “chemical” connection to the mother.