Pain thresholds can be increased through cognitive manipulations and training.

“Yeah. And as an aside, I hate the cold, but I do really well with the heat. And so does Ian. I think there's something genetic there. So I mentioned earlier around men and women and heat thresholds and I chose that specifically. But each of these are different depending on the stimulus modality. Can you change ultimately your thresholds? Yeah. Where that involves is a lot of cognitive control. It's a lot of cognitive training around that space. And there's clearly approaches to that.”