ELI5, aspirin lowers your nervous sensors that’s why you feel less pain when you take one, but how does it actually work?

Question

ELI5, aspirin lowers your nervous sensors that’s why you feel less pain when you take one, but how does it actually work?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Aspirin doesn’t exactly “lower your nervous sensors.”

Put simply, aspirin slows down the action of another chemical in your body (cyclooxygenase) by changing its shape, which ordinarily produces a particular *other* set of chemicals called *prostaglandins,* which attach to our nerves and cause us to feel pain.

With less prostaglandin to attach to our nerves, our perception of pain is reduced.