Ingesting extremely spicy peppers can cause severe vasoconstriction in the brain, leading to thunderclap headaches and potentially permanent brain damage or stroke. — Whalespan
Ingesting extremely spicy peppers can cause severe vasoconstriction in the brain, leading to thunderclap headaches and potentially permanent brain damage or stroke.
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“the blood vessels and indeed some of the smaller arteries feeding neural tissue shut down and he experienced this Thunderclap headache which is a brutal headache and sadly in his case um permanent brain damage so loss of neuronal tissue because neuronal tissue is very metabolically active you cut off the blood supply to that tissue Not only would you feel miserable maybe even pass out but lose vision and certain brain areas will actually die off in the absence of blood flow to those areas we know this more commonly as stroke”
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