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Increase Your Hot Sauce Resistance

Increasing your resistance to super spicy hot sauce is similar to setting out to run a marathon. Anyone, within reason can do it, and most people give you a dumb blank stare when you explain what you are doing. You have to put in the time and effort and it tends to be pretty painful but rewarding in a strange sort of way. It is semi addictive and it makes you feel good in the long run. You are also making short term sacrifices to enjoy long term health benefits.

So, how the heck do you increase your tolerance to hot sauce? Simple, just eat a bunch. Some people start out with a higher threshold for capsaicin resistance, which is largely formed by previous hot chili consumption. These high resistance folks can start moving to smaller hotter chilies consumed more frequently.

The best way to start eating more hot chilies is to simply determine your resistance level, that is what it is comfortable for you to eat, what taste good and does not cause you to drink too much water, and run for the hills. Take a step back from this and just increase the frequency of your consumption. After you have developed a good routine of eating spicy food regularly take it up a notch. Go hotter once and within reason. If you are used to cooked jalapenos try a fresh one for a change, if jalapenos have lost their bite try something spicier, like a quarter habanero. After the burn subsides go back to eating your normal not so spicy fare and see how it taste. Chances are that it will have lost its bite for good.

At this point slowly start to increase the amount of hot sauce you use and experiment with different kinds of chilies and hot sauce. There are millions of different kinds of sauce and thousands of different chilies, many have a very good flavor once you get past the heat and all have the great benefits of capsaicin.

Suggestions for cooking

Looking for ways to add a little spice to your life?

Add hot peppers to salad
Douse your omelet with hot sauce
Spice up a smoothie or juice for a good kick
Mix a cocktail with a little heat
Hot sauce is not just for chips and dip, it goes great with nearly any food and can take the place of less healthy condiments like salt or creamy salad dressing.

Experiment with all of the different varieties for the max health benefit and have fun raising eyebrows with your ability to down chocolate covered habanero peppers.

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