If you've ever shared a meal with me, you know how much I love hot sauce. The heat, the spiciness, the smoky flavour, and the tingling burn in your mouth - I love it all. I even have a nephew who half-jokingly calls me Uncle Hot Sauce. I've come to question whether I actually like food, or whether I just use it as a means to get hot sauce.
Well, it's splitsville for me and spicy food. No more Uncle Hot Sauce.
A couple of months after E's diagnosis, I started noticing that I couldn't handle hot sauce the way that I used to. I'm not going to delve into all of the gory details, but I was experiencing pain and discomfort during the digestion process. I tried cutting down both the frequency and quantity of my hot sauce consumption, but I still couldn't handle it. I really only noticed a difference when I cut it out of my diet entirely.
Now I'm at the point of not being able to eat hot sauce, but also
finding problems with other sources of spice. Too much black pepper will
now give me problems, as well as Swiss Chalet sauce, which, if you're not Canadian, can best be described as a style of chicken gravy with a zing.
I wanted to know why, so I did an internet search. According to this website, chronic stress can cause your body's metabolism to slow. A slower metabolism means that food isn't digested as well, so spicy foods are going to cause more problems than normal.
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