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Since capsaicin stimulates pain receptors and since people can become tolerant to increasingly spicy foods, does that mean that people who have built up a tolerance to spice also have a higher pain tolerance to other painful stimuli in their oral cavity?

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Since capsaicin stimulates pain receptors and since people can become tolerant to increasingly spicy foods, does that mean that people who have built up a tolerance to spice also have a higher pain tolerance to other painful stimuli in their oral cavity?	1