Redheads are better at coping with pain

CTV.ca ^

[proudofthesouth]

Well my red hair comes from a bottle (originally a brunette) but I've always had a high tolerance to pain.

[poobear]

"Scientists have found that the gene responsible for flame-coloured hair also produces a morphine-type substance that acts like an anaesthetic and reduces pain."

So this is what's affecting my crazy neighbor. Who knew.

[OB1kNOb]

Thanks - I hate when that happens.......;-)

[DesignerChick]

Ohhhhh, according to the people I went to college with she was a black african.

[TheBigB]

When I was in elementary school, I walked around for 6 weeks--even played soccer--on a fractured ankle. And my hair's brown (or, for you ladies, dark chestnut).

[Not A Snowbird]

Ah! Logical.

[Junior]

Probably the products of a government school education.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

My wife would agree with you.

[golfisnr1]

Red heads forever!!!!!

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Somewhere else I read that redheaded females could tolerate pain better. Not sure if it was part of the same study or another one.

[EternalVigilance]

As a redhead, one who was married to a redhead for twenty years, and has three redheaded kids, I don't have a clue what all this means.

But I do know she was pretty good at dishing out pain...and that I probably built up a pretty high tolerance for it! :-)

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm not a redhead, but my beard and sideburns are red. Considering my shoulder has been sublux for the last 8 years, I'd say I have a high tolerance for pain.

And as I have a weakness for redheads, I clicked on this thread for the pics. :)

[Republican Red]

Speaking as a life long redhead, I believe this is true. I have a much higher tolerance for pain than many. I have gotten migraines since I was a teenager and I always attributed being able to cope with other pain because I toughened up from the migraines. Maybe it's just in the hair!

I've had doctors note the red hair before surgery and childbirth because of the "thinner" blood of redheads.

Also, speaking as a life long redhead, I have been known to give pain better than most (lol) - just ask my poor husband and children.

[Jaysun]

If you love a redhead, set her free ......if she follows you everywhere you go, pitches a tent in your front lawn and puts your new girlfriend in the hospital, she's yours.

[pikachu]

Talk about very painful,

[AmishDude]

I would replace "coping with" with "causing" in this article. But that's just personal experience talking.

[Not A Snowbird]

I'm losing my auburn hair... it's being overrun by silver. I'm starting to look like a Christmas decoration!

[msnimje]

Quesion from a blonde: "If I die my hair red, will I feel less pain?"

[RightWhale]

Britain's greatest warrior, Boudicca, was a redhead.

She was tough, and . . . bodaceous.

[ValerieUSA]

I think there was a similar article posted on FR a year or so ago -- but I'm not sure if it had the same conclusion or an opposite one.