I’ve found that as I get older, my guy is more affected by got stuff with seeds. The more seeds, the more irritated my belly gets.
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Submitted 9 months ago by frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Jayb151@lemmy.world 9 months ago
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I love spicy foods and they don’t upset my stomach. Though I did eat one of those “one chip challenge” things back in the day and I did fine at the time but the next two days or so I felt like I had been poisoned. Only time that ever happened to me. You probably have a threshold too but it’s just very high. Genetics and practice helps, your gut biome critters are probably used to it too.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s because you don’t drink as much as other people. People who chug a ton of of water or whatever after they’ve eaten something spicy are giving themselves diarrhea.
Sauce: a Taiwanese lady.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Most of the gastrointestinal distress from capsaicin is the result of poison countermeasures triggered by contact pain signals.
But capsaicin is telling your cells a lie which fewer believe each re-telling, so it requires increasingly ridiculous doses to trigger those internal signals.
If you eat spicy food regularly, you likely won’t get any internal signals again until you graduate to a different category of spiciness, such as extracts.
Hot sauce nerds consider extracts cheating, since you can achieve heat that’s many orders of magnitude above what the hottest pepper hybrids can produce, but do what you must to feel alive.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Oh, and in case you’re looking for recommendations, my current daily driver is Blair’s “Ultra Death.”
To set expectations, Tobasco (a common North American vinegar-based chili sauce) has a heat rating of 7,000 scovilles, whereas Ultra Death generally measures over 1 million.
If you like heat, extracts are a cost-effective step up, since each bottle lasts longer. At first anyway.
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Acidic foods effect my belly more. Tons of tomato sauce, for example, and I get some acid reflux.
But spicy? Bring it on.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
All about acid and volume. Too much of anything and there’s no where else to go.
Spicy is just for the taste buds, and reallllllly spicy comes with a bonus reminder the next day.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well I think what the op and myself would tell you is that we don’t experience any bonus.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Was very happy to eat spicy foods until mid-late 40s, when I had to moderate because something just spontaneously switched as I got older and now my GI tract is unhappy if I eat a vindaloo, godfuckingdamnit.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m worried this is happening to me right now. I’m in my mid-40s and lately the day after all the spicy foods I usually consume have not been pleasant. Is there no fix for this??
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sucks bro. I mean, I can still tolerate what most people consider to be spicy food. At least “white guy” spicy. But no, I can’t eat the same kind of spicy food that I used to enjoy. It’s just a natural thing as you get older. This is a well known phenomenon. No fix.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I only ever hear that in movies. I assumed it happens if you eat low grade meat or smth like in the wild west in the US back in the day and it just became an old wives’ tale turned pop culture myth.
remon@ani.social 9 months ago
It supposed to affect your gut?
Zenith@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Question: do vinegar based spicy sauces hurt?
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not op but no they don’t do anything special. I love Carolina style spicy barbecue
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I was unbothered by it as well, at least intestinally, the physical pain of something hot enough was certainly something I could experience and dislike at the extreme end but my stomach and bowels would have been fine. That it until about the past 5 years or so when my stomach suddenly decided it couldn’t handle all kind of things that were never a problem before and now I totally get what people were talking about. It’s pretty sad, I miss being able to reliably tolerate highly spicy food.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 9 months ago
Boring ass comment, but same. I’m 36 and can’t stop eating spicy foods.
Etterra@discuss.online 9 months ago
As somebody who’s stomach is SEVERELY affected by spicy food, I suspect that you’re just a statistical outlier, like myself. Don’t sweat it. Instead, lean in. Be the “I can eat anything spicy and be fine” guy amongst your friends.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Same. Unless there’s another thing eaten with it causing intestinal distress (lactose intolerance or especially greasy food), I’m fine.
I have legitimately gassed out my parents house with airborn capsaicin making salsa (also, don’t rinse out a cooking pot using steaming hot water, folks!) using some unusually potent habaneros and scorpion peppers. Great way to clear your sinuses, lingered for a couple days though
Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The other day I had some actually spicy Indian food, followed by two cups of chai. Delicious, but my lactose intolerance was the match that lit the fuse
Alistaire@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
chai doesn’t always need milk in it
ikidd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have this talent as well; I use sriracha instead of ketchup on my burger and fries, with hot peppers.
But let me warn you, do not think this holds true when you have hemorrhoids. It will put you in a different universe of pain.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I don’t suffer the trots from spicy food. If I make a Thai Curry I will put 5 Thai chillies in it. Could just be what my body is used to, but could also be people who struggle might be combo of not used to spice in their system and not eating a lot of veg or iber then have an Indian lentil meal or something?
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same! A few days ago I consumed a very spicy hot pot meal. It was spicy enough that my eyes were watering uncontrollably and I might not have eaten it except that I do not have much money and I’d already paid for the thing (and there’s also my occasionally problematic waste aversion but I digress). In the days since I’ve been hoping to experience some toilet spice but it just hasn’t happened! I wonder if I’ll get to experience it if I get older?
hark@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I felt the same until I had one of those challenge peanut things that add straight up capsaicin crystals. It made my tummy feel not so good when I had it on an empty stomach, but I never had the “spice burns twice” effect until I had malatang and I asked them to do a spice level above their written max level.
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe you just have a healthy gut. It’ll get me usually but I’ve gotten in the habit of having some yogurt or kefir afterwards and that neutralizes things in my gut so it doesn’t burn on its way out
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same for me. As long as I don’t eat it. If I eat it, then hoooo-boy!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
So like … Can you keep eating even more spicy food until it does affect your suggestion and then let us know how spicy you had to go?
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 9 months ago
I’ve had ghost pepper curry and it still didn’t affect my gut despite me being a teary red mess
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I think the next step is to eat something even hotter and in larger amounts, if you want to find out. Otherwise just count yourself lucky!
jackeroni@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Even tabasco turns my arse into a fire dragon after its done burning my mouth, so count your blessings!
Willy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
As others have said, it started around my mid thirty’s. That also happens to be when I started growing my own ghost peppers… hmm. There is a big difference between a few slugs of a hot sauce and something truly marinated in heat. I have had a few spicy chicken sandwiches that you have sign a waiver (marketing bs) that have had the effect, but were surprisingly not that bad going in. Anyway. Up your game if you can’t feel it yet. If your mouth can still feel anything, you’re not hot yet. You should reach beyond the sweat and start feeling a pleasant dizzy feeling and no feeling in your mouth anymore.
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 9 months ago
I guess I’m a spice boss because I can eat whatever I want, with nothing but spicy-ass occasionally.
5oap10116@lemmy.world 9 months ago
- How old are you
- What kind of spice are you talking about?
Today@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve heard people say that things are spicy on the way out but i don’t really understand what that means. Spicy doesn’t bother me, but greasy, smoky, and dairy kill my stomach.
Longpork3@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
This whole post is kind of confuaing me because you like everyone else here seems to be the complete opposite to me. If i eat spicy things, it is absolutely fine as far as my gut is concerned, no worries at all. Where is gets me is when I take a shit the next morning, and it comes out twice as spicy as it went in.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 months ago
Your anus can feel capsaicin. It’s not 100% of the time for me, but sometimes after eating a spicy meal, the next poop burns like a mofo.
pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Probably depends a fair but on what else you eat with it. Like how drinking water doesn’t help but milk does.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
There’s a few factors.
First is genetics. Not everyone has the same base level reaction to peppers and/or capsaicin. And it can be either of them causing intestinal rebellion. Some people just don’t respond well to even sweet peppers.
Second is habitation. The more spicy stuff you eat in general, the more your body adapts to it.
But, there’s also variances in mucosa. Our guts, the colon in specific, opportunists produce snot. It’s essentially the same as what coats your throat and sinuses. Not exactly the same, but the same basic ingredients and purpose. Separate from how you respond to the food, and how used to it you are, some people produce more than others.
In your case, I suspect that you have a higher resistance genetically, and produce mucous in your gut that protects you from the irritants that spicy foods have.
If you also have a healthy gut biome going, it’ll add a layer of resistance to things being over stimulated.
And that’s what causes the diarrhea and cramping for most people. The chemicals irritate tissues, so your body treats or like an emergency. That means to increase bowel motility and flush the guts with water. Which means squiiirt.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Easiest fix: on’t be white.
Second easiest fix: hang out around non white people.
But seriously though all my white friends who never grew up eating spicy food had problems with spicy food at first. After years of being around people who eat spicy food they’ve gotten used to it.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 9 months ago
My wife’s family is full hispanic, and most of them can’t approach the heat levels that I, a white guy, can take. I could always take spicy food, and no, it didn’t take years of being around it to build tolerance. Some people can just take high heat.
Such a weird take basing spice tolerance on race.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
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Holy shit this ones crusty. (I couldn’t find the one I wanted)
bjorney@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I was like you, until my mid-30s hit
Now buffalo wings will have me waking up at 3am with acid reflux even though I didn’t even register spice while I was eating them 6 hours earlier
Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
Yeah I love spicy food and my body handles it like any other.
I think its one of those things where we have some gigachad gene that allows us to enjoy it like milk/dairy.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m the same as you. No issues at all. Wasn’t till maybe 5 years ago I even got a minor tingle on my butthole.