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Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us
schwit1 writes "If you think redheads are inherently different, well, you'd be right; they're better than you. In fact, they have a higher pain threshold than most of us, and can handle spicier food, too. It turns out that gingers are less sensitive to stinging pain in the skin, according to researchers who injected capsicum, the active ingredient in chilies, into the arms of patients. Professor Lars Arendt-Nielsen, one of the researchers, said, 'Our tests showed that redheads are less sensitive to this particular type of pain. They react less to pressure close to the injected area, or to a pinprick. They seem to be a bit better protected, and that is a really interesting finding.' The finding also means redheads can handle spicier food, reports Science Nordic. It lends some scientific weight to previous suggestions that gingers have a different pain response to the rest of, which were even investigated by MythBusters."
That's what happens when you are without a soul.
"I'm not like other people. Pain hurts me" - Daffy Duck
Yes, but not the upholstery. http://xkcd.com/508/</obxkcd>
Protoplasm. Quiet Protoplasm. I like quiet protoplasm.
Time to rethink all of your redhead BSDM fantasies.
Actually I'd call bull on this one. My exwife ...
Oh your ex wife! OK then we'll just disregard the all the studies with those unnecessarily large sample sizes then, shall we?
I guess that explains why my wife has rules about how much chili powder and cayenne I'm allowed to use in the chili.
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
It is.
Fun fact: ginger is an anagram for another racial pejorative.
Women are like electronics: you don't know how damaged they are until you try to turn them on.
Only a ginger can call another ginger, ginger
I even had a doctor's confirmation of this.
Interesting. Please, go on.
We went to the same Chiropractor.
Fail
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Capsaicin is the exact chemical body uses to transfer pain-information.
Not so. I don't occur naturally in the human body. Instead there are a number of substances, including histamine, bradykinin, and prostaglandins which "transfer pain-information." Then there's the nervous system.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
The female ones LOOK cute, too.
It's a trick. Get an axe.
Red-haired women ... have a resistance to capsaicin.
Oh that's terrible news. :(
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
Are you sure she was really a redhead? There's a simple test you can perform, but sadly this comment box is too short to explain it to slashdot readers.
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How long have you been waiting to do this?!
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
My exwife was a red head and she had one of the lowest pain tolerances I've ever seen.
Are you sure you didn't accidently try to give her anal?
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In Australia we call them Ranga's.
I thought you just called everyone "Bruce" or "Sheila" according to gender- anything else would surely cause confusion.
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"The female ones LOOK cute, too."
You must not have researched in a Walmart....
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