It’s NOT Getting Hot in Here

Do you enjoy watching celebrities recoil in pain as they munch on wings dipped in sauces of increasing degrees of “heat?” Hot they really are not.

Your sensory system has an incredible capacity to detect all sorts of various sensations - light, dark, hot, cold, sweet, sour, rough, smooth, heat, and pain. However, it sometimes gets it wrong.

Hot foods are a perfect example. In spite of the searing, burning tingle they bring to your tongue, spicy dishes are not in fact “hot,” but your body thinks they are.

Today on the Hunger for Connection Podcast, Chef Kibby dives into the neuroscience of hot stuff and the important lesson it can teach us about how a disconnect between the body and the brain can impact the way we show up in relationships.