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Why Chili Burn Is Fake Heat
Why Chili Burn Is Fake HeatChili burn is not a taste note. Capsaicin opens the same heat-and-pain channel that real temperatures above about forty-three degrees Celsius open, so the mouth and body run cooling responses as if you were overheating. People differ in receptor number, sensitivity, and whether that burn feels good, and milk can help clear oily capsaicin where water cannot.Edward and…
Duration: 7:17
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 press release
- TRP channels and pain (NCBI Bookshelf NBK5260)
- Binding mode of vanilloids to TRPV1 (PLOS ONE)
- ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- mcgill.ca
- pfizer.com
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