"For people who might have slower gut motility, spicy foods might speed things up for them and make them normal," de Latour adds. However, research on the link between metabolism and capsaicin is ...

However, as embarrassing as it may seem, your nose running and body reacting to spicy food is perfectly normal. According to science educator Luis Villazon, it all comes down to science.

I can't explain the why, but much of the time the what is capsaicin, a compound found in a lot of spicy food. Capsaicin triggers nerve receptors in your mouth which send signals to the brain that ...

I tried and compared spicy chicken sandwiches from five popular chains. Here's how they ranked, from my least to most ...

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On top of that, hot and spicy foods also improve the body’s ability to turn food into energy, so other parts of the body are warming up and need more sweat to bring the heat back down.