What is the science behind people having different pain tolerances?

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In my family my mom and sister cannot stand anything, whereas my dad and I have pretty high tolerances and aren’t fussy about anything. How does this work?

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Pain is a defence mechanism to stop you doing permanent damage to yourself by avoiding painful things, the pain message itself is just like a fire alarm the alarm doesn’t do the damage the fire does. There are some instances where we have evolved to override the pain response in certain situations to survive. So pain is just a balancing act of neurological messages.

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