• Question: why do you want to have Chilli as a pain reliever?

    Asked by anon-176058 to Ali on 14 Jun 2018.
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      Ali Hill answered on 14 Jun 2018:


      This links really well to the other great question I’ve just answered (/foodj18-zone/2018/06/14/what-is-it-in-chill-that-reliefs-pain/) and carrying on from that, if you feel less pain in sports maybe you could do more. Maybe you could run faster or for longer before you got tired. How awesome would that be? You’d end up watching some amazing super-human feats.

      The beauty of having a food that makes someone better at sports is that it’s not something that people can abuse and dope on. If they eat too much of it they’ll end up on the loo when they should be racing – it’s not something that the more you eat the better you’ll be. And just think about how many times people dope in sports – if it’s a food, you don’t have that problem.

      I see you want to be a nurse or a midwife – someone did ask me once if you could use it in child birth. At the moment it’s not really suitable for that as it isn’t as effective as some of the other drugs we have, but who knows? Maybe by the time you’re working as one, it’ll be something you use all the time!

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