Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods
The hot pepper linked to teen's death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/teens-death-after-eating-a-single-chip-highlights-risks-of-ultra-spicy-foods/ #Paqui #OneChipChallenge #toxicology #vasoactive #capsaicin
Not certain but it sure looks plausible.
If that pepper has the same strength as some pepper sprays ... yikes!
There's of course a lot of stuff we don't know (pre-existing conditions, how used he was to spicy food, if there is a generally lethal dose of capsaicin ...), so of course more research is needed, but a few indicators point in a definite direction.
@Nonog
Supertasters are all but immune to this insane addictive stupidity because capsaicin is a genuine neurotoxin and the greatly exaggerated effect in a supertaster's mouth is completely intolerable. For a supertaster, the "high" induced by endorphins created in the brain because of the false pain signals cannot overcome the severity of the false pain.
@Nonog If you read the article, you have to get 8 paragraphs and a couple of ads before you find the bit where it says, "Harris Wolobah's cause of death is not yet determined; it's not certain if the chip is to blame."