When you eat Hot Sauce the hot sauce helps boost your immune system and also helps with colds, congestion and may even prevent cancer and other disease.
Other things that Hot Sauce does to your body when you eat it include.
Hot Sauce stimulates pain receptors on your tongue
The capsaicin in hot sauce tricks your mouth into believing that it’s actually hot by binding to a sensor found in taste buds on your tongue called vanilloid receptor.
(This is the same receptor that tells your brain when you are, quite literally, on fire).
The Hot Sauce confuses your brain
Since this receptor is activated both by heat and capsaicin, and does not discriminate between the two, its stimulation makes your brain believe that the temperature is higher than it really is; that you are burning up.
But you are not actually burning, and for some reason you love it.
The Hot Sauce raises your core temperature
Hot sauce raises your body temperature, in a process called thermogenesis.
As a result, you sweat, turn red as your capillaries dilate, and your nose runs as your mucous membranes try to flush out whatever is behind this.
Remember, all of this is in response to totally imaginary heat.
And because of its capsaicin content, hot sauce may cause certain side effects, including acid reflux, stomach cramps, and a burning sensation on the skin.
Hot sauce and other spicy foods contain capsaicin, a compound that has been shown to relieve pain, increase weight loss, and reduce inflammation.
And hot sauce is healthy largely thanks to capsaicin—the active ingredient in peppers—which has shown antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer effects in lab studies.