{"id":153,"date":"2013-02-09T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2013-02-12T17:38:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:38:54","slug":"the-bicycling-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/the-bicycling-drug.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bicycling Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic has an article about bicycling and its affects on the brain that has nothing to do with head injuries or helmets.\u00a0 It quotes Harvard psychology professor John Ratey as saying that cycling is “like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin.”<\/p>\n

Of course the drug-like qualities of riding were insufficient for one professional bicyclist who wanted to — ah hem– live stronger…<\/p>\n

Read it here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2013\/02\/why-we-need-more-research-cycling-and-brain-science\/4624\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic has an article about bicycling and its affects on the brain that has nothing to do with head injuries or helmets.\u00a0 It quotes Harvard psychology professor John Ratey as saying that cycling is “like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin.” Of course the drug-like qualities of riding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t