The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the reason that this kind of infatuation and obsessive love can blunt the pain response and increase one's threshold for pain may have to do, I would say almost certainly has to do, but it hasn't been measured yet, with dopamine release because dopamine is absolutely the molecule that's liberated in our brain and body when there's a new kind of obsession or infatuation.
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that obsessive type of love, which without question is going to be associated with the dopamine pathway, does seem to have a utility in the context of reducing the unpleasantness of physical pain, and probably has a lot to do with reducing the unpleasantness of a lot of life, like sitting in traffic, et cetera
that actually looked at how love and in particular, the experience of obsessive love could actually counter the pain response, not just in redheads, but in everybody.