Re: [CH] Heat tolerance
Inagaddadavida,Baby (raelsixty4@earthlink.net)
Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:47:06 -0700
Twas Writ:
>In my experience, variance in tolerance is a natural result of intake and
body
>chemistry. I find that pushing myself past the comfort limit for several
days
>increases the limit, just like working out increases strength limits.
Likewise,
>limiting my intake of heat makes me more sensitive to it. This is
probably further
<snip>
>I feel sure that similar but lesser side effects occur with the things we
eat and
>drink every day, without us really noticing it. I have found that dairy
products
>stimulate my appetite and tolerance for heat, while acidic products like
tomato
>paste decrease them.
>
>Robert A Reed wrote:
>
>> One of the things I,ve been puzzled about for quite a few years
now in
>> changing heat tolerances . while I.m usually able to tolerate a fairly
>> high amount of scovils , sometimes I can't seem to get enough ( I then
>> can dump lots of endorphine rush and it will hardly phase me ) , but then
>> there are times that I wimp out and find a medium heat Jalapeno sauce
>> more than I can handle. ( fortunately that doesn't happen to often )
methinks it is just the nature of addiction, the life of an addict...'tis
to be expected but not fully answered...
take drinking, for example...when one is a drunk, one has a superhuman
tolerance for boose, particularly if you're an "everyday" drunk (verses
periodics, problem drinkers, etc.)...so like an "everyday chilehead" which
some of us are, some of us ain't, well, those who munch the Fruits of El
Grande daily have much higher tolerances than us "periodic" chileheads or
less frequent Munchers of El Grande's Flesh...additionally, drunks also
experience the odd days in which he/she discovers drunken bliss in record
time, i.e. only after a few drinks...may be to already high levels of Mr.
Alcohol or something else, i don't know...point be: the same thing happens
with Chiles as i too have had the same experience as described by Brother
Reed above...days when Chiles - like a jalapeno - makes me sweat and i
wonder if i'm sick (physically...the mental state is always in question...)
or something; and then the next day, i'm halfway into a container of
habanero salsa and thinking "damn weird, this addiction"...but the thought
usually gets punted from my gray matter as my addiction tells me to shuddap
and eat some more salsa...
or...maybe this is one o' those questions that has no answer, per se...
anywho, at least Chiles be a good addiction...personally, it's the only one
i've got left and would be hard put to give it up...well, unless one
considers Nubile Chile Maidens and Twister to be addictions...nah...
Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Rael"...NCM, Twister, and Chile DTs...the horror, the horror..."64