@TrevorGoodchild@teknomunk I lived in Arkansas a few years, and at some point after I got some of the crazy sauces, I stopped getting bitten by mosquitoes, I could walk through a cloud of them. I didn't put it together until maybe ten years ago, I wiped some sweat from my forehead and my eyes started burning like I'd gotten hot sauce in them, I realize it's probably in my skin oil, I run out of the office demanding that she come over and lick my forehead (this was abrupt so it took some convincing). Mystery solved: summer rolls around, the animals get covered in fleas, I don't notice because the fleas don't touch me, but they're eating the lady alive, diet is nearly identical other than the excessive amount of hot sauce, I get her to start eating the stuff consistently, the bugs start to ignore her. All the really strong peppers come from malaria-infested jungles, and this is both sides of the world: Central/South America, Southeast Asia and Africa. I don't know of any serious studies, but it at least stands to reason, and I have anecdotal evidence.
@p@teknomunk@TrevorGoodchild@epictittus p Try a chicken Kadai some time, its a really non offensive indian curry. I used to hate curry, but i like it now :D
@p@teknomunk@TrevorGoodchild I avoid their food. Curry is the most disgusting overrated food Ive ever had, it has some heat but Ive had more on big macs.
@p@teknomunk@TrevorGoodchild Very interesting. Do you think theres other chemicals? Poojets dont eat hot sauce any more than usaians, but the kumars do smell like sulphur, maybe garlic?
@epictittus@teknomunk@TrevorGoodchild I think there are a lot of peppers in curry, aren't there? I don't know, I don't eat a lot of Indian food. (Also I cannot forgive them for making goat look like beef.)
@CoQ_10@p@saunders@teknomunk@TactlessWookie I hate to say 'correlation is not causation' like a :reddit: faggot but in this case the evidence is building to support that hypothesis
@p@saunders@teknomunk@TactlessWookie Chronic inflammation in any organ system is detrimental. With epithelial tissues (mouth/larynx/lungs in smokers, skin in those overexposed to UV rays) it manifests as cancer. With regards to the nervous system, the story is a bit more complicated. For decades we've known that the brains of Alzheimer's patients had classic pathologic features at autopsy: β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). Now we're starting to realize that these findings are caused by a sustained intracranial immune inflammatory response in Alzheimer's patients.
Interestingly, chronic neuronal inflammation has been connected to Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy as well.
@TactlessWookie@teknomunk@TrevorGoodchild There's a theory that has been gradually getting more popular that cancer is an inflammatory disease; I wouldn't be surprised if it was somehow related.
@TrevorGoodchild@p@teknomunk Also, there are studies of societies where many hot things are eaten. Low rates of cancers as well as other "modern" maladies.
@p@TrevorGoodchild@teknomunk Can confirm that heavy pepper consumption is a common folk medicine counter-mosquito technique in at least one malarial zone