Spicy foods—aka, foods that burn—have always divided people. You either love them, avoid them, or tolerate them. For those ...

And at some point you ask, why do I do this to myself? 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 ...

Binshtok et al. theorized that it could be possible to exploit the transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1) channel, which is sensitive to noxious heat and capsaicin, to selectively ...

But there's no real heat in a pepper. So, what's going on? It's all about a chemical compound in peppers called capsaicin. Capsaicin binds to pain receptors on our nerves called TRPV1. Normally ...