eli5: How is capsaicin in spicy foods able to maintain its potency throughout digestion? It burns the mouth, it burns the stomach, it burns coming out.

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eli5: How is capsaicin in spicy foods able to maintain its potency throughout digestion? It burns the mouth, it burns the stomach, it burns coming out.

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I have a pretty spicy-aligned pallet. For example, I do the one chip challenge with no issue. I can feel that it’s hot, but it doesn’t bother me. I don’t sweat, I don’t get manic over the sensations.

However, when I poop, it burns on the way out the way I assume people feel it on the way in.