Do You Have Spicy Food/Capsaicin Tolerence Genes? Check Here!

[Turul Karom]

Really you have that variant? that is exceptionally rare in europeans, like less than 1% in the statisctics I saw but I guess those were mostly nw europeans.

Where did you find those stats? Are there any specifically East Asian allele combinations we can look for that excludes Central or Western Eurasia? I'd love to give them a try.

[Benyzero]

It is only 20% in asians aswell

[Benyzero]

Where did you find those stats? Are there any specifically East Asian allele combinations we can look for that excludes Central or Western Eurasia? I'd love to give them a try.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/rs671


You click on the Frequency texted button under the variant details option. I don't really know about east asian specific alleles, but I do browsing genetics related to health conditions etc daily nowadays.

[Benyzero]

There are some good exercise, body function related ones too. You can browse selfdecode for further explanation of the snp and the variants, that site has pretty good database, but they removed the instant search for non buyers, if you have the patience to look up one by one it is still available on google search. SNPedia is good aswell.

[Benyzero]

Iam considering to buy their dna kit, since 23andme raw data is incomplete, although it contains plenty of interesting snps

[Turul Karom]

I don't drink much, just a beer or two at a party. Sometimes a glass of wine, or as a special treat, my favorite, a White Russian. But to illustrate your above point, from my own personal experience..

A short story:

When I finished my student teaching assignment, my cooperating teacher took me out for drinks along with some of the other teachers, as celebration. I was doing shots of whiskey and after too many of them I looked him right in the eyes and said, "I love you man!". And he looked me right in the eyes and said, "You're drunk!".

Haha, good story and exactly the point. At least that's not as bad of a tale as most drinkers; I've seen people self-medicate with cheap liquor and pálinka for pain and other related depressing things in life and it just wrecks them long-term, even if they aren't your conventional "alcoholic".

[Turul Karom]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/rs671


You click on the Frequency texted button under the variant details option. I don't really know about east asian specific alleles, but I do browsing genetics related to health conditions etc daily nowadays.

Do you know of any more places to easily search capsaicin or capsaicin metabolism? If you could provide some specific alleles to check, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

I got C/C but I actually enjoy spicy food despite not being something that I eat on a daily basis. When my father pays me a visit from Angola he always brings me gindungo, an amazing Angolan pepper from which I do a homemade hot sauce with whisky.

[Damião de Góis]

CT, seems i'm halfway but i can't stand it.

[Turul Karom]

Yeah right? I absolutely agree with you! I don't like (and unable) to drink heavily anyway. And omg it was always so weird and I couldn't explain why I was flushing in front of my friends and everyone was laughing and I felt like an idiot. And when I drank too much the hangover is like a madness to me. I even remember that when I registered to this forum I put that in the description that I can't handle alcohol very well (at the time I didn't know that this is an inherited East Asian trait), honestly I never knew that by genetics I'm this ,,asian''. I can also do the ,,Asian squat'' for some reason and most of my friends can't do it lol (only one person who I know).

Also, what is the "Asian squat"? I perform squats with my feet flat on the floor, if that's what you mean. It is a comfortable position to relax in, too. I do it when I need to get low to put things away, wash things, etc.