Comment on pain plant

• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s just relative. Most mammals don’t pay rent, taxes, or have to deal with the TSA. Once you do those things, spicy plant chemicals become a frivolous game.

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  • LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I eat peppers just to feel something.

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• lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, given that it’s supposed to be toxic rather than just painful, I’d say we’re resistant in that it takes a high dose to kill us.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i wouldn’t really count body mass as resistence, by that measure every single mammal bar perhaps the field mouse is resistant to basically every toxin.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’d have to eat a lot of pure cap to kill you. Oral LD50 in mice is 47.2 mg/kg (source). For an 80 kg person, that’s 3760 mg of pure cap. Even a single mg of pure cap dropped into a pot of chili would be inedibly hot even to the most hardcore spicy food fan.

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