[Grig]

I don't buy it. My wife is a redhead and I would say she has LESS tollerance for pain.

[BibChr]

"Let's not try to find out!"

[HitmanLV]

Redheads are better at coping with pain

...and better at causing it! ;-)

[P8riot]

I buy it. I'm a readhead and played 4 straight football games in High School with a broken collar bone before I started to complain. I have broken fingers and toes and set them myself. I also did a century ride once with a stress fracture of my right femur when I was in my 20's.

My 3-1/2 year old has my hair (almost all of it), and he can run into doors and fall down on concrete and just pick himself up without missing a beat and go back to whatever it was he was doing.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[joesnuffy]

I've noticed they can really dish it out too...

[George Smiley]

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

Is this the etymological origin of the term "bodacious"?

[wallcrawlr]

This helps

[Wiseghy]

Interesting.

There has also been some speculation that Neanderthals had a very high tolerance for pain. Their male skeletons all show multiple fractures similar to rodeo and stunt riders.

[McGavin999]

I knew it! I've always thought it was just a question of mind over matter, but now they are saying it's because I have a defective gene? Ah well, whatever.

[Squeako]

My endocrinologist told me that redheads typically have low thyroid which, he said, "is bad for relationships". I'd agree with that based upon family history (and many comments here).

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

Someone...Anyone... Lindsay Lohan pics, please!

[doctor noe]

I'd rather be dead than have red on the head, like the tip of the XXXK of a dog.