Spicy is pleasurable to me, but nothing beyond the 350K Scoville range. I can't even fathom 1M Scoville, not to speak of 5M+ Scoville. How do you recover from that?
The article prompted me to ask why our pain neurons interpret the capsaicin burn the approximately the same as a temperature burning sensation. It turns out we don't fully know yet [1]. Some spice hound is going to score big time doing graduate thesis work on answering this question, literally eating spicy food for science.
The article prompted me to ask why our pain neurons interpret the capsaicin burn the approximately the same as a temperature burning sensation. It turns out we don't fully know yet [1]. Some spice hound is going to score big time doing graduate thesis work on answering this question, literally eating spicy food for science.
[1] http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/chili-peppers...