{"id":43043,"date":"2011-08-09T00:51:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2011-08-09T00:51:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T08:51:21","slug":"pleasure-through-signalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/09\/pleasure-through-signalling\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasure through signalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/08\/220px-Habanero_closeup_edit2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/08\/220px-Habanero_closeup_edit2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"220px-Habanero_closeup_edit2\" width=\"220\" height=\"370\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13470\" \/><\/a>As some of you know, I have a problem. An addiction that is. For most of the year I stock up on fresh <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habanero_chili\">habanero pepper<\/a>. Usually I try to limit myself to 1-2 peppers per meal&#8230;but when not in the company of others who may civilize me I can lose control and eat more than half a dozen in a sitting. After the first few peppers they just don&#8217;t taste as spicy, and I suppose psychologically I am under the illusion that enough peppers will bring back the pleasure high of a few moments earlier. I developed this habit not through cultural inculcation. Rather, when I went off to college and no one supervised me I began to eat more and more peppers, and developed an extremely high threshold of tolerance. By the end of college I began to raid my parents&#8217; thai peppers at home to the point where they complained that I always left their stock depleted before going back to school. At this point I <i>can<\/i> drink tabasco sauce like gatorade.<\/p>\n<p>But the different parts of the gastrointestinal system adapt differently. When I &#8220;habanero gorge&#8221; I develop &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, I have a problem. An addiction that is. For most of the year I stock up on fresh habanero pepper. Usually I try to limit myself to 1-2 peppers per meal&#8230;but when not in the company of others who may civilize me I can lose cont&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1103,1666,58,1667,1668,1669],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-habanero","category-health","category-peppers","category-scoville","category-spice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43043"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43186,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043\/revisions\/43186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}