- Joined
- Dec 3, 2017
- Messages
- 26,290
- Reaction score
- 16,771
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Progressive
Why redheads feel less pain, according to scientists
The fire-haired are less likely to feel the burn: study says
nypost.com
They may be ginger — but their skin isn’t.
In a seemingly paradoxical study, US researchers found that redheads have a preternaturally high pain tolerance — wait for it — due to a mechanism that ups their susceptibility to sunburns.
“These findings describe the mechanistic basis behind earlier evidence suggesting varied pain thresholds in different pigmentation backgrounds,” said Dr. David Fisher of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Massachusetts. He led the fiery study published in the journal Science Advances.
The research found that the cells that determine skin color — called melanocytes — play a large role in deciding how people experience pain.
===============================================================
I don't know but I have had a thing for red heads most of my adult life. A red-headed associate at my cardiologist's office is named Erin. You can guess where her lineage came from.