• Ninja876@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I have a buddy that has a very rare neurological condition where he can’t taste hot food.

    He has every “prize” you win for eating the Ultra mega deth sauces from every wing place in the state. I mean some of these wings come out and its like you got pepper sprayed being near them. Its a sight to behold.

    Also it affects his ability to regulate his body temp, does not sweat, and physical pain is very dull to his senses. So we have to watch him like a hawk in the summer because he goes into heat stroke way to easy.

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      14 days ago

      Also it affects his ability to regulate his body temp, does not sweat

      He’s not a former prince is he?

    • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zip
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      14 days ago

      So we have to watch him like a hawk in the summer because he goes into heat stroke way to easy.

      Well thats a little stressful 😅

      Fun he gets lots of prizes for spicy food though!

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        14 days ago

        We are in the south so its stressful, also he love music festivals and who are we to say “no”. So we have to pack out ice, plenty of water, tried to get him to wear one of those cold vest (absolutely won’t). Since he won’t wear it I started to and they are awesome! Find shady area’s which so is everyone else…

        But he’s a bro, that so what you do.

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          13 days ago

          Genuinely probably easier to manage when its just always one temp extreme versus having to keep track of major weather changes and how that plus activity impacts and all.

          At least with warm you can just assume its too hot. And probably be right.

          I mean, in winter, overheating is easy if you don’t plan in layers and take them off according to the outside temp and how it makes you personally feel. And if you live in a place with winter you have to keep track of so many temps through the year and whether or not a body can manage them… more temperate means less caution for extremes.

          I wear shorts when its above 40, as long as that happens between December and July. When it happens in August to December, its so cold because my blood hasn’t thickened, so i don’t.

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            13 days ago

            Got your msg, going to watch it asap. I’ll hit you back in DMs. Thank you for taking the time to post this, the little I have watched so far is that this is a game changer to the traditional cold vests. Definitely something I want to play around with as I think I have another off label use for this material. I’ll get me detailed after watching the video and doing some research.

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      14 days ago

      I was gonna ask if he feels it on the way out still, but probably not from the last bit

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        13 days ago

        Never mentioned it, but its got to kinda suck as he can only taste (as best as he can describe) certain foods.

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        13 days ago

        lol. I remember once I bought beef jerky and the flavor name was called death by jerky. I ate the whole bag, I was wow this is good and it wasn’t as spicy as I thought it would be. Well at 2am I wake up with gut pain and then I spent an hour on the pot sweating bullets thinking I might actually die. I walked a bit funny the next morning.