"YOUR TEARS CONTAIN A NATURAL PAINKILLER 6 TIMES STRONGER THAN MORPHINE. AND YOU WERE TRAINED TO HOLD THEM BACK.
In 2006, researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris discovered a molecule in human tears called leucine-enkephalin. It is an endogenous opioid. Your body manufactures it. It binds to the same receptors as morphine. It is six times more potent.
Every time you cry, your body is not breaking down. It is self-medicating.
Dr. William Frey at the University of Minnesota proved that emotional tears have a completely different chemical composition than reflex tears. When you cry from cutting an onion, the tears are mostly water. When you cry from grief, stress, or pain, the tears contain cortisol, adrenaline, prolactin, and leucine-enkephalin. Your body is literally flushing stress hormones out through your eyes and replacing them with its own painkiller.
People who cry regularly have lower blood pressure, lower cortisol levels, and stronger immune function than those who suppress tears. This has been measured.
Men are told crying is weakness. Women are told it is emotional instability. Children are told to stop. An entire species trained to suppress the one biological mechanism designed to flush poison from the body and replace it with medicine.
You have a pharmacy behind your eyes. It activates automatically when you need it most. It costs nothing. It requires no prescription. And for your entire life, you were told to shut it off.
The next time your body tells you to cry, let it. It knows exactly what it is doing."
